diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c90dc9f..00e04e2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ Various approaches exist to writing your own client, but in general:
* Refer to the API docs. These are built on an OpenAPI definition file (`/webassets/apidocs/openapi.yml`), which you can
automatically use to generate a client skeleton using various software.
-* Call the main "spots" or "alerts" API endpoints to get the data you want. Apply filters if necessary.
+* Call the main "spots" or "alerts" API endpoints to get the data you want. For example, your app could call
+ `https://spothole.app/api/v1/spots` once every few minutes. Apply filters if necessary.
* Call the "options" API to get an idea of which bands, modes etc. the server knows about. You might want to do that
first before calling the spots/alerts APIs, to allow you to populate your filters correctly.
* Refer to the provided HTML/JS interface for a reference on different approaches. For example, the "map" and "bands"
@@ -97,6 +98,18 @@ Various approaches exist to writing your own client, but in general:
Server-Sent Events (SSE) endpoint to update live.
* Let me know if you get stuck, I'm happy to help.
+Please don't hammer the API with an unnecessarily high request rate. For example, Spothole only queries the POTA API
+once every two minutes, so if your client is interested in POTA data there's no need to poll Spothole any more often
+than that.
+
+If you absolutely must be informed within seconds of a spot arriving in Spothole, please use the SSE endpoints instead,
+e.g. `https://spothole.app/api/v1/spots/stream`.
+
+If you want to handle different types of spot or alert differently within your client, please consider making a single
+request to the Spothole API to retrieve all the data, then filtering on your side. For example, call
+`https://spothole.app/api/v1/spots?sig=POTA,SOTA` rather than making two separate calls to
+`https://spothole.app/api/v1/spots?sig=POTA` and `https://spothole.app/api/v1/spots?sig=SOTA`.
+
Remember, here at Spothole Inc. we offer an industry-standard "five nines" uptime on our server, with our own unique
twist: we don't tell you which side of the decimal point the nines start! (Translation: This is a hobby project.
`spothole.app` runs on the same server as my blog and other stuff. It might go down without warning. By all means base
diff --git a/templates/add_spot.html b/templates/add_spot.html
index c14f8cf..fcb059f 100644
--- a/templates/add_spot.html
+++ b/templates/add_spot.html
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
-
+
diff --git a/templates/alerts.html b/templates/alerts.html
index e222204..a31f345 100644
--- a/templates/alerts.html
+++ b/templates/alerts.html
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
-
+
diff --git a/templates/bands.html b/templates/bands.html
index 7630b85..a58a3de 100644
--- a/templates/bands.html
+++ b/templates/bands.html
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@
-
-
+
+
diff --git a/templates/base.html b/templates/base.html
index b907e39..829c7a7 100644
--- a/templates/base.html
+++ b/templates/base.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
{% extends "skeleton.html" %}
{% block head_extra %}
-
+
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@
-
-
-
-
+
+
+
+
{% end %}
{% block body %}