rmm5t/jquery-timeago — pull request #98 by scotthovestadt (2012-11-15 19:06:13+00:00)
Title: setInterval will clear itself when element is removed from the DOM

My use-case is an activity feed with only 5 items. However, over the lifetime of the web application, thousands of items pass through the feed.

It was not ideal to have thousands of setInterval calls fire each minute.