[KuraFire]

Originally Posted by sjau

I'm just playing now with the idea of using a vB cron for periodic update of the feeds. I tend to think that on larger boards it's not a good idea to query the RSS file like ever 10-20 seconds just when someone goes in the according forum. I guess you could end up your IP being blocked!

Yup, many sites, especially larger ones, will block your IP (some do it for an hour, some for a day, some for a week, others permanently until you contact them) if you make more than one request per 30 / 60 minutes.

So having it fetch the XML/RSS feeds every time the forum page is loaded is Really likely to get your server ip banned from that xml/rss feed. And then you'll be complaining here that it doesn't work and cause insanity for poor Xyphen who's going through his code to see why that is