Just as importantly, please add a meta tag that links to the RSS or Atom feed correctly so feed readers can discover it. Medium (which I hate and you should feel bad if you're using) finally added RSS feeds, but I still have to try and figure out what the hell they are every single time because they're not linked from anywhere and can't be discovered by my feed reader.
Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#12Curiosity question, will most modern RSS-readers be able to find an RSS link on their own, or is it a good idea for me to include a link on a homepage that users can copy-paste?
I've never advertised any of my rss feeds, I just leave them up at /rss.xml. I was under the impression that RSS feed locations were mostly standardized, but I'm noticing that the feed location for this blog is at a different URL.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#13I completely agree with this sentiment. Mastodon, or whatever, is fine but RSS is the backbone of blogging.
It always annoys me when sites request permissions to send me notifications - hey idiots, if I like your site I'll subscribe using your RSS feed and read at my pleasure. You don't have one? Bye then.
In my perfect world browsers have RSS support built in and aggregators like Facebook would allow RSS feeds to be published in timelines. This used to be the case and then the winds changed and something was lost. I'll like to see it return.
Where I wrote my blog's static site generator, one of the first features was RSS[0].
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#14Yeah, and please link to it so my feed reader can pick it up from the URL.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#15Curiosity question, will most modern RSS-readers be able to find an RSS link on their own, or is it a good idea for me to include a link on a homepage that users can copy-paste? I've never advertised any of my rss feeds, I just leave them up at /rss.xml. I was under the impression that RSS feed locations were mostly standardized, but I'm noticing that the feed location for this blog is at a different URL.
Usually they are able to find it, I never had the problem that it couldn't be found if there was a feed URL in the source code. (Using the selfhosted version of Miniflux). It's too bad that browsers removed the RSS icon in the URL bar.
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#16I love RSS so much. I use inoreader but there are many free RSS readers available (like feedly). I don't subscribe to anything via any other means - RSS completely covers my daily news needs. Please keep it alive!
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#17I think the worse RSS isn't in not having RSS, it's when they say "Hey here's a preview of what we wrote." I really enjoy reading content on my terms on not having to go everywhere to get it. It makes my life much more peaceful.
Luckily some readers also include a "always fetch full content" feature that pulls the linked page and runs it through a "reader mode" to remove the garbage. These kind of feeds really annoy me.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#18Curiosity question, will most modern RSS-readers be able to find an RSS link on their own, or is it a good idea for me to include a link on a homepage that users can copy-paste? I've never advertised any of my rss feeds, I just leave them up at /rss.xml. I was under the impression that RSS feed locations were mostly standardized, but I'm noticing that the feed location for this blog is at a different URL.
You need to advertise it in the head section of your html. Then any reader will find it.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#19I follow many blogs, many of them of individual developers and if you're not on Wordpress or Medium (ugh), then the next common choice is a static website generator like Jekyll or equivalent. Some of them don't have RSS feeds. But I just contact them privately and kindly ask them to add an RSS feed. Most of my requests had positive results, since you just need to integrate a plugin [1] or copy a pre-made atom.xml tem…
From my experience (as maintainer of a Planet Clojure), some sites have feeds, but simply don’t expose them via links or meta. I’m usually trying some standard paths before contacting author: /rss/, /feed/, /atom.xml, etc.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#20Funny story. Most blogs I follow via my Reeder [0] ( actually best app I've ever used for (i|mac)OS ... no, I'm not affiliated with the app ) are ones that end up on HN. It's funny but my RSS feed currently is 30% HN / 30% Media websites like The Guardian / 40% Other. Since a year or two I rarely add new sources to my feed, which I feel it's sad.