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Rachel makes an excellent point here about feed change frequency.

Seems like it'd be straightforward to implement a backoff strategy based on how frequently the feed content changed into most readers. For a regular, periodic fetch, if the content has proven it doesn't update frequently, just back off the period for that endpoint.



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