One of the challenges I deal with on a daily basis is trying to keep the feed data flowing into chi.mp home pages. It is very challenging to consume tens-of-thousands of feeds in a reliable fashion. For a long time we did this internally out of necessity. Now though we no longer need to manage this internally thanks to Superfeedr.

I started considering the idea of using Superfeedr well over six months ago, but still had concerns about their stability and viability – ultimately I got over that and realized that I need to outsource this part of chi.mp. This week I finally pushed out code for chi.mp that uses SuperFeedr’s PubSubHubBub hub to receive feed updates. Initially I used their XMPP interface, however after repeated encouragement from Julien @ Superfeedr I made the switch over to PubSubHubBub with only a small amount of work.

I still have to move a bunch of feeds over to use Superfeedr but I feel at least part of the burden of managing all of these various feeds beginning to leave my shoulders, and for that I am very thankful.