Wire refresh — the cron's throttle
fetched by Cloudflare, not this machine The cron fires every 15 minutes; this decides which firings actually fetch. Slower = fewer feed pulls; the ledger only ever appends, so nothing is lost — stories just arrive in bigger batches.
Wire sources — roster, feeds & contribution
on/off takes effect next refreshEvery outlet with the exact feed URL the wire pulls and the site it belongs to — check them against each other; a lapsed domain can be drop-caught and refilled with garbage (that is exactly what happened to kccall.com). Unchecked sources are skipped on refresh; their history stays in the permanent ledger. Counts are Kansas City items only, split news vs sports by the outlet's own taxonomy (feed + category tags); what the locality filter rejected is shown in "Non-KC" rather than silently dropped, so a source that mostly ships national wire is visible as exactly that.
Retired / inactive registry entries (kept on file with their reasons)
Source tag colors
rides the wire feed · ~5 minThe colored pill on each wire headline. Pick a color per outlet (reset falls back to the neutral tier style, or the built-in default where one exists).