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Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Ticket #64845


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03/11/2026 11:15:50 PM (2 months ago)
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  • Ticket #64845 – Description

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    1616* Every site that is `! is_multi_author()` (sites with no posts by more than one author total) -- note that function probably could use a `$post_type` argument to make this more contextually aware based on the post being edited in this case
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    18 Surely we need to reign this in because the amount of requests (1 every second) is wasteful for most sites since WordPress is used by a huge amount of sites on the web.
     18Surely we need to reign this in because the amount of requests (1 every second for one user, every 250ms for each user if multiple people have it open) is wasteful for most sites since WordPress is used by a huge amount of sites on the web.
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    2020This feature could contribute an outsized impact on global energy / network traffic / server logs / DB resources / site resources on every site it runs on.
     
    2222Part of this puzzle could be solved by a better alternative polling provider in core that's not just HTTP like Websockets but I've seen so many slow sites with tons of data / plugins and this feature absolutely scares me to my core.
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    24 It's a fantastic feature for sure but shipping this defaulted on in all of these cases would surely be irresponsible.
     24It's a fantastic feature for sure but shipping this defaulted on in all of these cases would unfortunately be irresponsible.