> Her problems are the problems of a polling-based protocol and really if she does not like the RSS protocol she should stop publishing it and stand up an ActivityPub or PubSubHubBub service instead.

Bit odd to take potshots at a third party blog on this discussion, why single out Rachel?

And more to the point, the dynamics here might be due to RSS being polling-based, but if feed readers implemented the RSS logic correctly it wouldn't matter nearly as much, would it?