Feedbase year 9 #feedbase #rss
Looking at #feedbase here, it looks like I forgot to write about the 8th year of Feedbase last year.
Let's forget about that and write about the 9th year then. I'm still using Feedbase as a convenient means to keep up with RSS feeds ranging from news and podcasts, to Youtube channels, status information and what have you.
Rachel by the Bay created a "Feed Reader Behaviour Project" a while back, which nudged me to add a last_fetch timestamp to the groups, and skip fetching a group if it was less than an hour since last time.
This summer I also switched the website from the library Spock to twain instead, as it was easier when upgrading to Debian 13 (trixie), and I had already switched my other websites to twain.
Oh, and I have added a way to "properly" rename groups, where the original name stays around - but is filled with artificial articles all telling you to subscribe the the new name.
The number of commits added up to 34 in 2025, up from 21 in 2024, and down from 51 in 2023. I still haven't cleaned up the code and released it for public consumption.
The development in connections over the years:
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unique IPs | 479 | 506 | 1358 | 2859 | 3093 |
| IPv4 | 324 | 369 | 1126 | 1753 | 2291 |
| IPv6 | 155 | 137 | 232 | 1106 | 802 |
| Only once | 138 | 225 | 483 | 1224 | 1224 |
Quite spooky that the number of IPs only connecting once was exactly the same in 2024 and 2025!
Interestingly, I have not been the one connecting the most often since 2022 - I am down to 7th in 2025! The 6 most connecting IPs have connected more than a thousand times in the past year.
The total number of articles is nearing the 10 million mark.
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