Title: [Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Enhanced Distribution
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Enhanced Distribution

 *  Resolved [Goose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ggussis/)
 * (@ggussis)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-enhanced-distribution/)
 * Is there a page which describes in more detail what “enhanced distribution” does(
   e.g., how it works, where the information goes to, etc.)? The learn more tab 
   only has a one-liner about it. Thank you.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/)

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 *  [Arnaud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xarj/)
 * (@xarj)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-enhanced-distribution/#post-2408025)
 * I’m wondering the same question! We are not getting much info on this new feature!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Andy Skelton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andy/)
 * (@andy)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-enhanced-distribution/#post-2408043)
 * This page has a little bit more detail: [http://en.wordpress.com/firehose/](http://en.wordpress.com/firehose/)
 * Turning off Enhanced Distribution will prevent your published posts and comments
   being sent to the companies that consume the WordPress.com firehose. This doesn’t
   mean they can’t get the data; it’s all available on your site feed. It just means
   they get it faster and they don’t have to poll your site.
 * The benefits might not be immediately apparent but they are there. Every company
   that receives firehose updates has the opportunity to show your content to more
   people. And they subscribe under terms that basically requires them to flow traffic
   to you rather than simply steal your content. They are not scrapers.
 * If you want people on the internet discovering your site, I can’t think of any
   good reasons to turn it off.
 *  Thread Starter [Goose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ggussis/)
 * (@ggussis)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-enhanced-distribution/#post-2408044)
 * Thanks Andy, sounds like a good thing to have activated. Appreciate the response.
 *  [Hesham Zebida](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hishaman/)
 * (@hishaman)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-enhanced-distribution/#post-2408117)
 * Yeah, I was wondering about this as well, especially that there is no enough 
   information about the Enhanced Distribution feature in the panel!
 * Thanks Andy for the info!
 *  [kb_unhammer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kb_unhammer/)
 * (@kb_unhammer)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-enhanced-distribution/#post-2408161)
 * The firehose info page mentions the im.wordpress.com service, but when I try 
   to subscribe to my self-hosted blog with that bot, it says it can’t find it (
   I have jetpack+e.d. activated). Should it work? Would love to have more info 
   about this stuff.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Beau Lebens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beaulebens/)
 * (@beaulebens)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-enhanced-distribution/#post-2408162)
 * [@kb_unhammer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kb_unhammer/): you can not
   currently subscribe to a Jetpack blog via im.wordpress.com (but it’s something
   we’re looking at for the future).
 *  [yeeheecom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yeeheecom/)
 * (@yeeheecom)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-enhanced-distribution/#post-2408205)
 * I just found out by using that enhanced distribution part of the Jetpack plugin
   that if your hosted somewhere like Fatcow.com it will cause an extreme increase
   of load on the server and will get your site suspended.

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