It's been well over a year since I
started serving 429s
to clients which are hitting the feed too often. Since then, much has
happened, and most of it is generally good news.
Or, "Thanks, but I reject your cache-buster or tracking token." I decided to change my various pages to reject unknown URL search parameters. URLs mean things, and ideally only one URL will refer to a given document. And mangling URLs instead of respecting the Expires header is antisocial behavior. There are lots of badly-behaved feed readers out there. You may be about to find out that yours
The
"feed reader score" service
that I mentioned earlier this week is now up and running. Several
people reached out to me and I have sent them their unique codes and
links to the instructions so they can get started.
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