This was because RSS feeds were hotlinked to pages, so that when you loaded a page, it would attempt to refresh a cache of an RSS feed if the page hadn’t been hit within 30 minutes.
Although this sounds fairly reasonable, it doesn’t work for the folks over at del.icio.us – so now images are only downloaded from the two main del.icio.us image feeds, and cached. Requests for tagged images or user’s images are just filtered from the main cache.
This also means that pages load faster, yay.
However not as many images may be presented, boo :(
But before I had to shut them off completely, and now they are up again, yay!
I’m lazy so I decided to just rewrite the whole script, here is the new source.
