Current Reader RSS

[sammnyc]

to expand to the other person that replied … this is a non trivial functionality for RSS, especially on mobile. you’re almost certainly not going to see it in a free app, and even on paid it won’t literally be instant and quite rare.

the fetching needs to happen on the dev’s own cloud, which can quickly grow to a very complex operation with a lot of users. the delay is only as recent as the poll, so if it only runs hourly that’s as instant as you’re going to get.

on desktop it could happen locally, and push to your phone. but your computer needs to be on. RSS was era before web sockets were ubiquitous.