Right click on the feed and choose Site Settings to see specific feed details. This can’t be modified by end users, however you can 'Insta-Fetch Stories" and trigger the feed parsing any time you wish to see if the source has issued new ones.
The system retrieves all subscriptions periodically, automatically. Each RSS feed has a particular periodicity to its retrieval which can be seen by opening Statistics relative to a specific feed, as Sam said above. No one said you have to retrieve each feed manually. You can ALSO parse a feed on demand, if you desire to, in between the cycling of the automatic retrieval, to see if there are updates.
I’m still rather confused by the cloudy answers to what I thought was a simple question.
My Question: How often do feeds automatically update ?
IN a previous thread at http://goo.gl/CJQKc1, Samuel Clay stated that “every feed held by a premium user is updated at the minimum of once an hour. Popular feeds more often, and if the feed has published less than an average of 1 story over the past month, then it gets updated just a few times a day”.
That is not what Samuel has said in prior posts. What he has said is “every feed held by a premium user is updated at the minimum of once an hour. Popular feeds more often, and if the feed has published less than an average of 1 story over the past month, then it gets updated just a few times a day”.
Sounded like a good plan when he said it, and it’s partially what I based my premium purchase on.
I am also a premium user and have some feeds that do not update for 24+ hours. Can Sam confirm whether all feeds held by a premium user are updated at least every hour as promised? If they do not, then I think we have our answer…
Strangely enough, the feeds that were pulling every few days, such as the one imaged at the top of this post, are now being pulled at least twice a day.
It appears that the frequency has been changed, perhaps because if the attention drawn to the matter over the past few days?
I can be content to have a feed with sporadic content fetched twice daily, as appears to be the case now, but I can’t accept that a feed would be checked every three days as was the case recently, evidenced by my image above.
I would, as Adam suggested above, still like to hear from Samuel on the specifics of the fetching schedule. Without that feedback, we shall all have to assume that the policy is still “every feed held by a premium user is updated at the minimum of once an hour. Popular feeds more often, and if the feed has published less than an average of 1 story over the past month, then it gets updated just a few times a day”.
Premium users have been told that our investment goes towards paying for the back-end that is capable of pulling feeds frequently. I think we deserve to have that investment honored.
I (as a currently non-premium user) subscribe to a feed from a blog that has only one subscriber. If I check the statistics, it tells me that it’s “Real-time / Supplemented by checks every 72 to 90 hours”. But it’s not real-time, or the real-time functionality isn’t working, because there was a post about two and a half hours ago that hasn’t appeared yet. Below that in the statistics, it says: “If you went premium, this site would update every 72 to 90 hours but it wouldn’t matter because this site is already in real-time”.
Could it be that if NewsBlur *thinks* a feed is real-time, it doesn’t increase the fetch frequency for premium users, even if the real-time functionality isn’t actually working?
Have you check the feed stats so Sam can investigate? What if the site only posts once every three days, what would be the point of hiiting the feed every hour? Maybe the site has restriction on how many times you can read the feed? NewsBlur can try to access feed every hour but the site owner can also control how often you can check. Post the stats so people can help solve the issue.
This is definitely NOT the case. I’m a premium subscriber and I have several feeds that get updated infrequently, even though it has new items regularly (a few per week up to a few per day). Statistics confirms this but doesn’t say why.