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FoF has failed me

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  1. Craig (2 comments.) says:

    Not sure what cron you’re using to call the FoF update thing, but there are crons out there smart enough to not kick off a process again if it’s not yet done executing. fcron being the one I use. I’ve made a small handful of mods to FoF myself, adding a full-text search to be able to find stuff I remember reading on a feed but don’t remember which one, as well as a couple other things. I can create a patch for you against the base FoF if you’re interested — drop me an email if you are.

  2. didier (2 comments.) says:

    Have you tried gregarius? I use it and so far love it. Functionality is not as extensive as FoF though (I’m a former FoF user), but I keep using it.

  3. Graham (2 comments.) says:

    SharpReader.

  4. Phil Ringnalda (3 comments.) says:

    When I was starting with FoF, the two that people mentioned to me the most were SimpleAggregator and Temboz.

    I don’t suppose you’d like the suggestion that you fix whatever’s wrong with your server? ;)

    I’m subscribed to 369 feeds, on cheap-ish shared hosting, and an update run seems to take six or seven minutes. Where are you bottlenecking?

  5. Mark (118 comments.) says:

    Hmmm….it MIGHT just be my server and I should have checked on that first. The performance continued to degrade with time, so I never looked into it.
    I would love to continue using FoF!

  6. Jeff Minard (8 comments.) says:

    You may also look into replacing the built in FoF RSS engine. MagpieRSS can be deadly slow in comparison to something like LastRSS – switching engines could alleviate a lot of pain as well – but I don’t know how easy that would be.

    Additionally, I think an update for FoF is due out any time now with a slew of improvements.

  7. hugo (3 comments.) says:

    Temboz is what I am using. I hacked it a little bit, but mostly to have it run with PostgreSQL instead of SQLite – but there were no technical reasons, just my personal preferrence of PostgreSQL and the nice effect of being able to use the database from multiple running programs.

  8. Geof F. Morris (19 comments.) says:

    I’m with Phil, Mark; I average around 288 feeds aggregated, and I don’t have problems often. When I do, I sometimes can a feed. [I hear Mark Pilgrim crying softly.]

    FWIW, Steve is working on getting v0.5 out to beta. [So much for incremental code work, I guess …]

  9. Meredith (1 comments.) says:

    I hadn’t heard of FoF before, thanks for mentioning it. I have tried just about every desktop aggregator I have found, and not liked any of them perfectly. I tried building my own web-based aggregator by using MT plugins and frames, and that wasn’t too good either. I’m currently using Bloglines but I’m not thrilled with it…and yet all the other web-based aggregators aren’t quite what I want, either.



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