The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS

A point not mentioned was Dave Winer's refusal to clarify if excerpts in his version of RSS feed needed to be plain text or contain HTML (either as HTML tags or entity encoded). He just kept saying "Keep it simple, people!"

Re: The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS

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Post by fluxsauce » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 2:31 AM UTC

> After all, The Onion is a publication that relies on syndication through Facebook and Twitter

https://www.theonion.com/rss

That didn't take long to find. Why use that as an example?

Re: The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS

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Post by carc1n0gen » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 2:34 AM UTC

I still use it every day. I run a python script through Cron that parses a list of feeds and caches new items in a sqlite database. Then it pulls the most recent 100 items out of the database and generates a static html page in which I read them

Re: The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS

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Post by amanzi » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 2:37 AM UTC

I just read this post via RSS in Feedbin. Still very much alive and kicking.

Also... that website proudly displays an RSS feed button on every page.

Re: The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS

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Post by raphlinus » Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 2:38 AM UTC

spc476 wrote: post #6

A point not mentioned was Dave Winer's refusal to clarify if excerpts in his version of RSS feed needed to be plain text or contain HTML (either as HTML tags or entity encoded). He just kept saying "Keep it simple, people!"

I've always said that RSS is Dave Winer's gift to the world.