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Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by novok »

danShumway wrote: post #62
djhworld wrote: post #43

I tend to read my RSS feeds on the London Underground, where signal is non existent in the tunnels, and patchy in the stations. My app of choice (newsblur) lets you sync your feeds for offline browsing so I do this before heading home. Unfortunately a lot of feeds I subscribe to tend to truncate their articles with a summary or maybe just the first paragraph, with a link to continue reading the full article. I get wh…

As someone who hand-codes their RSS feeds and doesn't include article content at all (just a title/link/description), what's the recommended setup for this? Can I just spit the raw HTML at you? Do I need to inline images? I'm assuming that someone who's consuming a full feed isn't going to want any CSS included. I'm not against this, but I'm also hand-coding all of my blogs, and this seems like a problem that would b…

You can just put raw html and normal img tags. Just think of it as an unstyled version of your normal website, just rendering the article portion.

Also look at other pages’ rss feeds that include full articles.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by psion »

AndrewStephens wrote: post #42
jandrese wrote: post #22

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.

True, it is sad. What I don't understand is why Google didn't continue to push for RSS like they used to in ye olden times with Reader. High quality blogs both produce content and link to other high quality content - both things that Google should be interested in to improve search. Instead they decided to capture that information (and eyeballs) with Google+, a calculated gamble that they lost. If I was king of Googl…

In ye olden times, there wasn't Medium. Sites where everybody could write whatever they wanted. And so sites like Medium could run their own feed of sorts, and send me a digest email with what they think I want to read.

The King(s) of Google do have a strong blogging community in Blogger, but it was never supposed to be, nor never will be, a backstop against Facebook. It would be better for Google to work within Facebook on this, as bloggers in WordPRess, or MEdium, or whatever announce on social media, guess whose ads are running on the blogs? And I myself as a dev, I'm still searching for the best articles for development practices and more. They don't see that need for us to subscribe to RSS. It's the King(s) of Facebook, Twitter, etc., that need to listen. Giving us a way to watch our subscribed RSS feeds in their own ecosystem will give them the edge on content aggregation.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by AndrewStephens »

danShumway wrote: post #62
djhworld wrote: post #43

I tend to read my RSS feeds on the London Underground, where signal is non existent in the tunnels, and patchy in the stations. My app of choice (newsblur) lets you sync your feeds for offline browsing so I do this before heading home. Unfortunately a lot of feeds I subscribe to tend to truncate their articles with a summary or maybe just the first paragraph, with a link to continue reading the full article. I get wh…

As someone who hand-codes their RSS feeds and doesn't include article content at all (just a title/link/description), what's the recommended setup for this? Can I just spit the raw HTML at you? Do I need to inline images? I'm assuming that someone who's consuming a full feed isn't going to want any CSS included. I'm not against this, but I'm also hand-coding all of my blogs, and this seems like a problem that would b…

> I'm not advertising on my blogs

Perhaps you should, I enjoyed finding stuff like this : https://danshumway.com/blog/gamasutra-vulnerabilities/

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by djhworld »

danShumway wrote: post #62
djhworld wrote: post #43

I tend to read my RSS feeds on the London Underground, where signal is non existent in the tunnels, and patchy in the stations. My app of choice (newsblur) lets you sync your feeds for offline browsing so I do this before heading home. Unfortunately a lot of feeds I subscribe to tend to truncate their articles with a summary or maybe just the first paragraph, with a link to continue reading the full article. I get wh…

As someone who hand-codes their RSS feeds and doesn't include article content at all (just a title/link/description), what's the recommended setup for this? Can I just spit the raw HTML at you? Do I need to inline images? I'm assuming that someone who's consuming a full feed isn't going to want any CSS included. I'm not against this, but I'm also hand-coding all of my blogs, and this seems like a problem that would b…

Definitely understand the hand crafting etc has value if your post is complex and has interactive elements or lots of graphic design, and would be a shame to go to waste.

I guess the main thing you need to provide really is the text and images,

, , tags etc. If you look at your site in Reader View in Firefox or Safari and it looks OK - that should be good enough

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by jamie_ca »

jandrese wrote: post #22

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.

I subscribe to a bunch of webcomics via RSS, and a few have changed over the years from embedding the comic into the feed to just having the feed be a link to the comic page so that they can still get some ad impressions.

I also subscribe to email newsletters that have sponsored links/blurbs in their content, and I'm sure that one could monetize RSS content similarly.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

djhworld wrote: post #43

I tend to read my RSS feeds on the London Underground, where signal is non existent in the tunnels, and patchy in the stations. My app of choice (newsblur) lets you sync your feeds for offline browsing so I do this before heading home. Unfortunately a lot of feeds I subscribe to tend to truncate their articles with a summary or maybe just the first paragraph, with a link to continue reading the full article. I get wh…

FiveFilters.org does this: https://fivefilters.org/content-only/

The free version has some limitations, like only three articles per rss feed. They offer a self-hosted version for a one-time 35euro fee (although software updates only for one year), which I really appreciate.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by spiderfarmer »

smush wrote: post #68
AndrewStephens wrote: post #13

I 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…

> In my perfect world browsers have RSS support built in and aggregators like Facebook would allow RSS feeds to be published in timelines. We had this too...Firefox Live Bookmarks, yanked away because their metrics said no one used them...forgetting the kind of person who is techie enough to use RSS feeds is probably techie enough to turn off telemetry :/ I use them to this day in Waterfox, tried the Livemarks addon…

That’s one of the reasons I have Telemetry turned on. Just to show what I am using, so there’s less reasons to remove something.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by lbatista »

bad_user wrote: post #37
jandrese wrote: post #22

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.

RSS isn't dead. Smart bloggers will always expose an RSS feed, because readers following your RSS feed are more likely to read your blog than traffic from other sources. Having an RSS feed is the slightly weaker version of the mailing lists. Mail which is also going strong — and the easiest way to build a mailing list btw, is to connect your RSS feed to Mailchimp. And RSS feeds are mandatory for podcasts too. Some bl…

RSS died when Google Reader died.
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