Hmm. I could put up a limit per hour. But then, what if someone publishes the post of his life (or his week) and it will get lost then?

Maybe you could compress consecutive pictures of the same blogger into one, with some way (a popup div or something) to list all their posts.

For example, I believe a forum needs threads only if it has more than 1 post a week. And I believe it only needs a expand/collapse multi-thread view if it has around 20 threads per day. It needs moderation only if there’s so much spam you can’t read through it anymore. And so on. With the growth of a community, so must the approachs grow too.

So what happens when the amount of bloggers increase and the amount of new posts is more than 40 per half hour (the current refresh rate)? Just putting up one photo of each won’t be satisfying, because I may want to read all posts of a certain person, and I want to get a feeling how often he posts. After all, I’m linking to the post itself and not the blog.

To make a long story short, if that happens I will start to have blog content categories. The front-page will then change its functionality to “track all bloggers of Forty Faces” to “get completely random blog posts of bloggers of Forty Faces”. But if you want to track a certain topic, like http://www.fortyfaces.com/programming/ or http://www.fortyfaces.com/design/ or http://www.fortyfaces.com/sports/ and so on. This approach is of course expandable in itself by having sub-categories — which again I would only introduce if the single-category approach won’t suffice. Then we’d have http://www.fortyfaces.com/programming/c-sharp/ and so on.

Now here’s a caveat. Up to a certain point, the growth is only limited to my ideas, sure. But as soon as I have 10,000 RSS feeds to scan every thirty minutes, my server limitation itself might pose a problem. And then I have to find ways to grow my server, which I only do if I can find ways to monetize the site; so up to a certain limit, I’m fine with making no money, but as soon as I must pay lots of money for the site, I intend to find an income model *or* limit the amount of bloggers I accept (I can not only do this by shutting down the site, but e.g. by analyzing post frequencies similar to thwat Google does when they check pages — if you never change the RSS, I will check it less and less until the point I might only check it once a month… and as soon as the posting frequency increases, so will my “spider” increase the checks again.)

I am actively thinking of expanding the site into other areas, too. Feedback like this here helps me shape the site, and actually while writing this comment I had a few new ideas