MobiPocket eNews Creator Banned from Thoughts Media Server

[uhoo]

Well, I used to use the enews creator but I've stopped using the current version because it's a bandwidth hog. The previous versions were pretty simple, you could start a sync manually or schedule a daily sync. The current version seems to sync in a loop, ie. as soon as it finishes a sync, it starts all over again. I'm on a limited internet plan, and with some feeds like the BBC taking up 20mb every sync, it adds up quickly. It opens multiple connections, so it manages to slow even my 24mpbs connection to a crawl. As soon as i realized what was happening I stopped using it. I've no doubt that if they continue, they'll soon have no users.

[uhoo]

Well, I used to use the enews creator but I've stopped using the current version because it's a bandwidth hog. The previous versions were pretty simple, you could start a sync manually or schedule a daily sync. The current version seems to sync in a loop, ie. as soon as it finishes a sync, it starts all over again. I'm on a limited internet plan, and with some feeds like the BBC taking up 20mb every sync, it adds up quickly. It opens multiple connections, so it manages to slow even my 24mpbs connection to a crawl. As soon as i realized what was happening I stopped using it. I've no doubt that if they continue, they'll soon have no users.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by uhoo

The current version seems to sync in a loop, ie. as soon as it finishes a sync, it starts all over again. I'm on a limited internet plan, and with some feeds like the BBC taking up 20mb every sync, it adds up quickly. It opens multiple connections, so it manages to slow even my 24mpbs connection to a crawl.

You know, that might explain the insane number of hits we were seeing... 8O

[mobi_aurelien]

Well,

I am very surprised by some figures announced in this forum. There might have been a problem with one of our old version of the eNews Creator. The point is we are totally switching from the old style of eNews that is still used by many people to a fully-compliant RSS standard eNews system.

So , we are really sorry for the issues you all seem to have faced and I hope you will try to make you an idea of the new eNews system when we'll release it ops: (still in public beta today) )...

BTW , Great forum

Aurélien

[Miz]

This reminds me of the avantgo issue you had some time back. Isn't this pretty much the same?

Btw, it's kinda surprising to see that many people didn't upgrade away from Mobipocket, because around version 4.0 (as old as a year or more) the news creator was horribly inefficient. It was very slow and takes a lot of bandwidth. I don't know how the new version is because I stopped using it some time ago.