[penguicon-general] Reported website issue (from yesterdays meeting)

[Ron Blanchett]

It is pulled the current was so that we can get the content in the
same form it is presented on the LJ site. I am thinking about
implementing some sort of caching system that would cache the LJ
content and load it in, so we are not pulling from LJ on every page
load.

-Ron

On 3/9/08, Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 12:40 -0400, Ron Blanchett wrote:
>
>  > I suspect that LJ has taken measures to block or slow the load of the
>  > feed we where using but I could be wrong.
>
>
> I don't know how practical this is to do with the current site, but the
>  best way to resolve this problem is probably to download the feed to a
>  local file periodically via cron.  Then you can use the local file as
>  the source of the feed rather than pulling directly from LiveJournal.
>
>  Clay
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