Re: Inhibiting gnus-get-new-news at startup

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Tuesday,  2 Jan 2024 at 21:34, Husain Alshehhi wrote:
>> I might have spoken too soon. It appears that the issue is not with nntp
>> groups, but with nnrss. I ran the profile and saw the following:
>
> Which is why I switched to elfeed for rss feeds.  I would prefer to use
> gnus for everything (email, news, blogs) but the performance hit is too
> high.  elfeed is very fast in comparison.

There will be a newly-implemented backend for Atom landing in Gnus
before too long, and I think we're hoping to make it work for RSS as
well. I'll try to make sure that it does better with situations like
this. I also find nnrss too slow for practical use, and hope it's
something fixable.