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Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by jandrese »

RSS seems to have died off as social networks decided that they wanted to capture the users and vertically integrate. RSS turns them into commodities, and that's the opposite of what they want.

Plus it's difficult to monetize an RSS feed.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by Fogest »

nickthegreek wrote: post #10
Fogest wrote: post #4

Kind of ironic because I can't find any RSS feed linked on this site (apart from in the blog post itself). Not even my RSS reader picks up that he even has a RSS feed. Bit odd to be commenting on others not having RSS on their site if his own site doesn't properly support it either.

looks like he added a link to his RSS ( https://kevq.uk/feed ) at the end of the article, but like you, my RSS reader was unable to locate it naturally.

Yeah I saw the link there but unfortunately that is not very helpful as if he isn't doing that on every single article you'll have a hard time finding it.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by latexr »

> But I was surprised to learn that many of the blogs that Jan had linked to didn't support RSS.

I went through them all, and of the 32 only two didn’t provide a feed[1]. Not all of them linked to it on the page, but Reeder[2] found them with ease from the home URL.

Funny enough, the feed for blog of the linked post was hard to find — Reeder didn’t catch it, and from a quick glance on the blog’s home I found no reference to it. If I didn’t think it odd that the author wasn’t providing a feed, I wouldn’t have found it.

Blog platforms tend to provide support for RSS feeds because blog platforms are built by people who care about such things, so even if the writer doesn’t care, the feed will be there. I’m more worried about the lack of RSS support in big popular platforms that have no reason to not provide one, such as the News page on the Epic Games Store[3].

[1]: It may be that some were auto-generated and provided wrong info; I didn’t verify them in depth.

[2]: https://www.reederapp.com/

[3]: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/news

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by bovermyer »

If you use Hugo, here's how to add an RSS link to your site. Just add the following to your area in your template(s):

    {{ with .OutputFormats.Get "rss" -}}
        {{ printf `` .Rel .MediaType.Type .Permalink $.Site.Title | safeHTML }}
    {{ end -}}
Related link: https://gohugo.io/templates/rss/#readout

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by shakna »

sylk wrote: post #5

I 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.

A bit of that is that RSS simply doesn't have great character support. You have to escape a whole bunch of stuff that is useful to have in the final product - because for most users the RSS is a notification feed, not the endpoint they go to.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by Deimorz »

nickthegreek wrote: post #10
Fogest wrote: post #4

Kind of ironic because I can't find any RSS feed linked on this site (apart from in the blog post itself). Not even my RSS reader picks up that he even has a RSS feed. Bit odd to be commenting on others not having RSS on their site if his own site doesn't properly support it either.

looks like he added a link to his RSS ( https://kevq.uk/feed ) at the end of the article, but like you, my RSS reader was unable to locate it naturally.

It's because he doesn't have one of the rel="alternate" tags that RSS readers look for: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/RSS/Getting... (not sure why this MDN page is marked as "obsolete").

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by rtkwe »

kgwxd wrote: post #9

I don't subscribe to anything via any other means. No need to give any personal info; no risk of spam filtering; I can apply my own filters to content; everything in 1 place. I've seen some site owner say it allows nefarious players to grab their content, post it as their own, and get it index by Google before they do. But that problem should be solved by Google, we should't cripple the web because of it.

I wonder if it's also because reading content on an RSS reader doesn't generally allow ads and tracking to be added.
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