[trekz]

Not surprised to see Reeder in there. It’s a great app for Apple users. But that app can bring a website to its knees with how aggressive it is.

I can see in my logs that it constantly makes over ~20 requests to different RSS feeds on my domain, all in the exact same millisecond. Happens multiple times a day. And it appears to rotate IPs. Scary… Tried reaching out to the developer about it twice, but they never responded.

[latexr]

> Not surprised to see Reeder in there. It’s a great app for Apple users.

I agree. Until you find a bug or have a feature request.

> Tried reaching out to the developer about it twice, but they never responded.

And this is exactly why. The developer is the most unresponsive I’ve ever seen. I don’t know why they bother with a “Support / Feedback / Contact” form on the website. And it’s not just you or me, I’ve seen the same commentary from other people.

So if you want to use the app, you better like it as it is. Especially since the developer is working on something else which overlaps in functionality, so I doubt Reeder will get much love going forward. It’s a shame, because it’s the best feed reader I’ve tried, and its small annoyances could be easily solved.

[radicality]

It also queries from external servers? I was under the impression it’s all from the IP of the users themselves. I have Reeder on iOS, and all the feed storage set to iCloud, and afaik whenever I open the app and it’s syncing, I imagine it’s going via whatever network I’m currently connected to.

[rcarmo]

That's probably Apple's Private Relay feature