Re:Hit with hard times, American bakers turned to tomato soup
by aerostable_slug on Monday March 21, 2022 @04:31PM
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For a while I worked on a news application that depended on RSS, and a client needed their number of news sources radically increased for their international customer base. I discovered quite a lot of news sites around the world apparently still had a dusty server in a rack (or on a shelf) somewhere spewing out a feed, completely untouched for a decade+. You wouldn't find any links to it in the current UI, but there it was running on its cron job like a good little piece of software.
The problem was when the feed breaks, nobody remembers they had one in the first place...
The problem was when the feed breaks, nobody remembers they had one in the first place...