php - RSS Feed "Updating Too Often" -
this may or may not silly question know little of mysterious ways of rss feeds, can put me straight! i have website rss feed of news items. user has complained feed updating crazily frequently, without change in top 5 news items displayed. i'm ashamed don't use rss feeds personally, don't know implies 1 "updating often" - can see how annoying, if keep checking "updated feed" find no new content, or worse if receiving continual alerts of non-existent updates. say, don't have clear picture of how rss feed consumption works. the next question is, if way our site generating rss feed problem, can it? top news items aren't changing incredibly frequently. it's possible, not certain, automated scripts updating items in database related news items, though still, can't imagine how happening "crazily frequently". rss feeds, how work? re-generation of top news items count update everyone's rss readers, if top news items ...