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Ask HN: How to promote RSS subscriptions in 2022?

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Re: Ask HN: How to promote RSS subscriptions in 2022?

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> Does anybody actually know what to do with this now? > If you click the symbol on my page, you just see an ugly page of XML. There's a solution for both issues: apply styling and add explanation to your RSS feed. Here's mine: https://darekkay.com/atom.xml It's based on this solution (adjusted for Atom feeds): https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds/blob/main/tools/pretty-...

Thanks. This was a great shove in the right direction. The markup on my main site is pretty simple so it was super easy to replicate through XLST.

https://thepcspy.com/feeds/full.xml https://thepcspy.com/static/feed.xlst

Re: Ask HN: How to promote RSS subscriptions in 2022?

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Would it be useful to have a site https://use-rss.example.com/?feed=https://thepcspy.com/feeds... which explained what RSS/Atom is, and suggested decent feed readers with instructions on how to set them up? The idea would be that blog authors could link to that next to (or instead of) their RSS icon. Such blogs could still include a link HTML tag for extension autodiscovery.

We've got some RSS tools at FiveFilters.org and we have something like this. Feed name and URL can be changed:

https://subscribe.fivefilters.org/?name=FiveFilters.org&url=...

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