Comments on: NewsGator’s sync platform details

By: Ben Barren - Confessions of a Mad Man » newsgator + polyvore this clippn goalz.

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:19:15 +0000

[...] mix – Newsgator isn’t that : It’s one of those hypergrowing company with an awesome (3.5) million feeds + (3) billion feeds items running on a cross platform black box with plugged in widgets, whether it’s Facebook or a newspaper’s blog, and that’s [...]

By: gregr

gregr — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:23:08 +0000

@Elliot – it did indeed work differently in the past. With the current system, though, there is no scenario I can think of in which you’ll get less data using sync than you would downloading directly…and in fact, in most cases, you’ll get more data using sync.

By: Elliot Shank

Elliot Shank — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:07:21 +0000

This has not been the case in the past. I haven’t tried it in a while, but it used to be the case that subscribing to a feed while syncing wouldn’t download all the items in the feed. Say a feed had the last 50 items in it; if I subscribed via NewsGator, I’d only get the last 20 items (or some other low number like that). I just don’t trust that I’m not missing anything.

By: Jonathon McDougall

Jonathon McDougall — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:38:33 +0000

@Elliot – I think you are missing the point – All posts are still stored locally *from when you subscribe* it is the Meta Data that isn’t synced. IE read state and flag state.

Eg If you subscribe to a feed that has 20 posts/day, at the end of the year you’ll have over 6000 posts with or without sync – depending on the limits of your client. Only the last 200 posts will sync read state, but the others will still exists locally and be searchable.

By: Elliot Shank

Elliot Shank — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:11:03 +0000

And this is precisely why I don’t use syncing. I want all entries, period, locally. Even if I can’t read the 3000 entry backlog, it’s still there for me to search later.

By: John Wilker

John Wilker — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:06:39 +0000

mmm Sounds like an Ignite Preso ;)

was great to meet you guys the other night!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:15:26 +0000

Wow, I didn’t know that I can go all the way back in time on Newsgator Online, that’s a really nice feature.

Greetings

By: Rolphus

Rolphus — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:03:26 +0000

Now *this* is a system I’d love to get my teeth into. Fascinating writeup, thanks. As a platform, the NG sync system has a huge amount of potential in the future.