Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Good evening dakka, I wanted to debate the fact that each thread's RSS subscription link points to a file containing all the posts in this thread, since its creation.
While it can be interesting to feature all of them if one wants to archive an entire thread in his reader, it also generates a lot of useless traffic for users who just want to get the latest posts. For example, refreshing "Gitsplitta's Unified Painting Theory" blog will require 15M of RSS data to be downloaded and processed.
While I reckon even the ~300 dakkadakka urls in my rss would still represent peanuts compared to the daily traffic dakka must encounter because of all these high res images, It can sometimes be a burden for a low power laptop or smartphone, or when using cellular data.

For comparison, I think RSS feeds from reddit only return the 50 last posts, and the ones from youtube only the 15 last posts.

Nothing blocking of course, I can certainly use dakkadakka as is.
Just though interesting to bring up the question and would love to hear your thoughts.

You can wrap it around third party services like feedburner to get that functionality. RSS is barely used on Dakka, so we've little motivation to make tweaks to it over spending coding time on other areas unfortunately.

Alright, thank you for the precisions.