Avoid Flooding followers with X posts at once

[rmdes]

First of all it's really great news that v2 is out, I have moved all my bots to the latest release and I'm experimenting with the new avoid duplicate feature, thanks for all this amazing work !

Now that Queueing is out I was wondering if we could revisit the idea of spacing out posts in the queue when there is more than 2 posts in the queue, simply set a timer to space each posts of X minutes that could be configurable via the config.json

In previous exchanges about this I had concern about :

use cases of news bots that have high volume of posts :

• what if there is a queue of 10 posts, spaced out by 5 minutes between each posts and while this first queue is still flushing out, 5 or 10 new posts comes in the queue, how could we solve not accumulating perpetually the queue by either dropping posts in the queue or accelerating the rate to make sure to flush the queue completely at least every 30 minutes.

I know this may be very edgy use case, but I'm worried about queue filling up and flushing out too slowly creating a whole new set of issues but perhaps the only fix for this is to lower the overall volume of post of the bot at the source (rss feed)

Let me know what you think, perhaps you'll have a better idea, maybe @garaytc can chime in if he has some time :)

[milanmdev]

I'll look into adding this. I see your point, but I won't prioritize this feature at the moment. When I get some spare time, I'll slowly work on this, but for now, since there isn't much interest from others, I won't prioritize it. I'd recommend forking this and adding it yourself if you need it urgently.

[rmdes]

OK, I'll try to come up with a PR because this is something that is bothering the users of my bots since the start, hopefully they have the ability to add the bot into a feed and then consume the news updates without following it but it's acting like a deterrent for users to follow it, so i'm going to have a shot at it :)