diff --git a/config.php-dist b/config.php-dist
index 2fd065a5e..791d84312 100644
--- a/config.php-dist
+++ b/config.php-dist
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 	// Connection charset for MySQL. If you have a legacy database and/or experience
 	// garbage unicode characters with this option, try setting it to a blank string.
 
-	define('DEFAULT_UPDATE_METHOD', 1);
+	define('DEFAULT_UPDATE_METHOD', 0);
 	// Which feed parsing library to use as default:
 	// 0 - Magpie
 	// 1 - SimplePie