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Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by z3j4e »

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…

> Mastodon, or whatever, is fine but RSS is the backbone of blogging.

Just for the record, each mastodon-user has its own RSS-feed: https://INSTANCE/@USER.rss

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by kgwxd »

swlkr wrote: post #91

I prefer email newsletters to RSS, the content typically looks better, and it makes economic sense.

It does make more sense to have them tell you they've posted something new rather than querying every 5 minutes. I'd hate to use email for high volume feeds, like HN, but I think it's an ok solution for low volume. However, email isn't anonymous and spam filtering is in the hands of the host which may cause you to miss somethings or even force the publisher to change the address it's sent from because the old one got blacklisted so badly.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by jkmcf »

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…

A summary of the article would be nice, but most of the time it is an information-less lead to get you to click.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by jeena »

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…

I also like reading in my feed reader, which is basically like a automatic offline "reader view" with automatic "read this article" marks. Because of that I quite early decided to never subscribe to a feed which doesn't give me the full article. So I don't ever have this problem. I basically feel that there is so much good content to read out there which I can get delivered to my rss reader directly that I don't really need to jump though the hoops and clicking on 'read more' links and adapting to badly designed websites with really small fonts and gray on white text colors.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by jeffchien »

scarface74 wrote: post #70
notriddle wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RSS is rarely shown to end-users any more, but I know a lot of people who use tools like ITTT to push their RSS feed to Twitter automatically, and services like iTunes use RSS to import podcasts into their walled gardens. RSS is not dead; it's just become invisible infrastructure.

There is no “walled garden” around Apple’s podcast. They crawl and index RSS feeds just like Google crawls web pages. Once you subscribe to the podcast, the app itself polls the podcast’s feed and the audio is played directly from the host’s website. You can also add a podcast directly if you know the feed url. On top of all that, there has been a freely available API to the podcast directory for years that other pod…

I think you are currently right, but that's probably ending soon as Apple looks to fund their own exclusive podcasts too [1]. I hope podcasters and their cooperatives/companies can resist the siren call.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/16/apple-will-reportedly-fun...

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by benoliver999 »

SamWhited wrote: post #11

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.

For instance, it took me a while to find the feed of the site in the site linked. It's in the post, but if you go to the home page it is tricky to find.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by jeena »

SamWhited wrote: post #11

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.

I have the problem that those meta links are kind of useless nowadays because Firefox removed the possibility to use Navigator.registerContentHandler() so I could redirect from the Feed button in the Firefox UI to TT-RSS. Now the button in the UI let's me download the Feed resource which doesn't make sense.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by juki »

overcast wrote: post #47

What the heck is a good free or paid RSS reader these days? I paid for Reeder, and a few months later they discontinued support.

I just use Emacs/elfeed[1] It's simple and fast with good tagging/searching. Thunderbird also supports RSS feeds.

[1]: https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed

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