The valley of webhooks

The big downside of this approach is that if you're trying to build redundancy into your clients, you're much more on your own. You'd ideally have some kind of leader election going on? HTTP load balancers are pretty great, and accessible in a variety of environments!

This was what I discovered when using the discord API over websockets.

Nice first step. Still leaves the problem of integrating feeds from separate sites, handling races etc.