VA GA RSS feed size limited.

A friendly neighborhood legislative aide pointed out to me today that the General Assembly RSS feed for every single bill in the GA is freaking huge, to the point at which his news reader (Pluck) just choked on it. I can see how 2,354 elements in an XML file might be excessive, particularly in RSS.

So I’ve modified the behavior of the Master RSS Feed, the Senate RSS Feed, and the House RSS Feed to include only those bills that have had some activity in the previous 72 hours. So if you don’t refresh your news reader for, say, four days, you’ll miss any activity that happened four days ago, catching only the prior three days. But that’s only for these huge-ass listings, not for custom feeds or legislator-specific feeds and, admit it, you can’t read a list of the status of every bill in the GA anyway, RSS or no.

I’ve got two new features coming as soon as I get a few hours to implement them: feeds of the status of all bills currently before each committee, and feeds for every individual bill.