As I guess you're already aware
, deliberate wait cycles in the foreground metadata fetch can make the host behave a little strangely. In my case, my mouse can disappear, and I'm blocked from switching mouse control to other hosts in my virtual desktop (using Synergy). But I understand that those waits are important because of FFN throttles.
I see some switches in the config file to tune the delays (in the FFN section), per the comment they're intended to reduce user inconvenience. However, I'm leery of reducing the delay because I don't want FFN to block me. Especially since, due to not being home for weeks at a time, I might have several 10s of stories to update - yesterday when I used "Get Story URLs from Email" there were around 65 stories to check. It seems likely I could hit a throttle.
Indeed, I'd be happy to increase the delay .. I honestly don't care how long the downloads take, so long as I can continue to work on something else, or perhaps read another book I already have. Take hours. Fine.
Is there a switch, or could there be
, to perform the metadata fetch in a background job, maybe in the same background job that will eventually run to download the content? Or even just outright move the metadata fetch to the background (ie. no switch)? Or is there some reason folks want to watch it happen?
Thanks for reading.