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Re:Show HN: Twtxt – Decentralised, minimalist microblogging ... by akkartik on Friday February 05, 2016 @04:34PM (#11044812)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag should help with that.
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Re:Show HN: Twtxt – Decentralised, minimalist microblogging ... by hk__2 on Friday February 05, 2016 @06:01PM (#11045331)
It can help to avoid re-downloading a timeline that didn’t change but you’ll still have to re-download the whole file for each new status.
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Re:Show HN: Twtxt – Decentralised, minimalist microblogging ... by detaro on Saturday February 06, 2016 @06:32AM (#11047316)
Make the ETAG the size, send a range request for only the bytes you haven't seen already?
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Re:Show HN: Twtxt – Decentralised, minimalist microblogging ... by buckket on Saturday February 06, 2016 @11:40AM (#11048398)
This is nice as long as nobody changes old status updates. Thought about using If-Modified-Since to at least reduce the load when nothing has changed at all.

But still: It will definitely take some time till a "twtxt timeline" causes more traffic than browsing the current Twitter homepage. :3

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