Forum:External RSS Feeds

Greetings:

I am interested in embedding another RSS feed on a Wiki where I am an admin (warmetal.wikia.com, a Wiki about the Facebook game "War Metal" and the Flash game "Tyrant" which is on both Kongregate and Facebook). We already have two; one from facebook and one from kongregate, but the new one is planned to be from a personal site run by a member of the Tyrant game community.

The concern is how much the personal site will be polled for RSS data. Is it every time someone loads the page on the Wiki with the rss tag, or does any caching take place?

I suspect it isn't cached and after searching the forums to no avail, I contacted Wikia support. They replied that they are not aware of any RSS caching taking place or what the performance hit would be against a personal web site providing the feed. They suggested I post here.

So, that's what I'm doing, wondering if anyone has had any experience with embedding RSS feeds from external personal web sites on Wikia and what the performance hit (bandwidth traffic, hits, etc.) has been against those web sites providing the feeds.

Thanks,

Slivicon 00:16, April 17, 2012 (UTC)