Receive Feed Updates in real time

[nikhilrayaprolu]

Is there a way, I can build subscriptions to the feeds and receive them in real-time over sockets? Something like http://getstream.io does?

[kigster]

Right now that's not possible, but you could use AJAX to frequently query for the total and new counts of any feed items (it's a cheap operation). Once you determine that there are new items available, you can fire-off another request to get the new items.

I suppose theoretically one could build an extension to SimpleFeed that uses Redis' PUB/SUB functionality to implement real-time notifications, but this is likely a non-trivial amount of work. If you really need this functionality and are willing to collaborate on it, I might be persuaded to work on it.

[nikhilrayaprolu]

That's good to know!
I am super excited to collaborate but since I am fully occupied with an other project now, I have added this into my tasklist and will contribute whenever I start working on it!!

[kigster]

Great, I’ll keep it open for now.