It would help if Reddit used the standard Retry-After HTTP header, but otherwise I don't see why more than one request per minute is necessary for the expected use of RSS feeds.

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kevincox 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think the question is it a per-feed rate limit or an all-feeda rate limit. If the former then yeah, a complete non-issue. But if it is a global limit than for people following a decent number of feeds it can definitely be an issue.

	▲	lapcat 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I think the question is it a per-feed rate limit or an all-feeda rate limit. It's an all-feeds rate limit. This is also implied by the quoted comment: "It looks like only the first request in each batch works, then the others fail." It also follows from common sense. Why would all of the people who are seeing this problem be refreshing their feeds more than once per minute? I'm not aware of anyone who does this, and feed readers don't support it. Mine is once per hour. But 25 feeds is 25 requests within a minute. Ironically, just loading https://www.reddit.com in a web browser is around 150 URL requests.

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lapcat 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Overall, I subscribe to around 25 Reddit RSS feeds

That's around 25 requests in less than a minute when the RSS reader refreshes feeds.