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Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by scarface74 »

jeffchien wrote: post #105
scarface74 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I would be okay with that if Apple introduced a standard in the RSS feed that allowed subscription, paid for podcasts that worked across apps. I’m all for a business model that lets me give companies money and they give me stuff as opposed to advertising.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by saagarjha »

AndrewStephens wrote: post #73
danShumway wrote: post #62

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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/

Perhaps they enjoy not having their website marred by online advertisements?

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by jeena »

sandov wrote: post #87

I've never really understood how one is supposed to use RSS. Do authors include the whole article in the RSS article "body" or only a glimpse? I think I've seen both things and don't know what to do. Are readers expected to read the article in the RSS reader itself or open it in a web browser? I've read a couple of tutorials and tried to use it, but I never quite understood it, and I didn't like any of the clients I…

I wrote a frontend https://github.com/jeena/feedthemonkey for TT-RSS and I only subscribe to feeds with full articles which I can read offline.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by detaro »

throw0101a wrote: post #109

Are we talking about RSS specifically or a syndication feed generally (i.e., "RSS" proverbially)? Would Atom and JSON Feed be the best two to implement? * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed

People use Atom and RSS almost interchangeably. Generally, it doesn't really matter which one of the two you support, nearly everything does both, I'd personally tend towards Atom.

IMHO, JSON Feed is basically irrelevant: It adds little to no functionality, development seems to have stalled after a short initial burst of enthusiasm and as far as I know nothing supports it but not Atom.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by robk »

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 do this with huginn

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by scarface74 »

adventured wrote: post #88
scarface74 wrote: post #64

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I’m not aware of any news site or blog that doesn’t still support RSS. As far as difficulty in monetizing, John Gruber has been making quite a bit of money for years selling one RSS entry at the beginning of the week and a thank you post at the end of the week.

> I’m not aware of any news site or blog that doesn’t still support RSS. Bloomberg is one of the largest new sites; a top 1000 global site and top 200 US site by traffic. It has no RSS feeds.

I just searched Feedly for Bloomberg and found multiple RSS feeds.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by saagarjha »

twsted wrote: post #112

Apple is doing really good things in Safari for privacy and for the web, but removing support for RSS was surely not one of them.

Not only did they remove it from Safari, they removed RSS support from News as well, probably to push publishers towards using the Apple News format instead :/

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by enz »

sonicrocketman wrote: post #45

Widespread RSS support is crucial to pushing the open web forward and allowing the ecosystem to compete with mainstream social networks. RSS isn’t perfect and can be fairly technical but the majority of the issues with it can be mitigated with tooling. Regular people can use RSS; Podcasts have proven this. One thing feeds don’t have is an ITunes style directory. I run Pine.blog, a Twitter-like, easy to use Feed Reade…

> RSS isn’t perfect and can be fairly technical but the majority of the issues with it can be mitigated with tooling

Or by using Atom instead of RSS!

Atom is very well supported too. Actually, we sometimes say "RSS" to refer to a feed whenever it is RSS or Atom.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by cordite »

For a small competition when I was 14, I worked on a hand rolled CMS system in PHP, MySQL. I remember trying to determine what RSS was and Atom, what it all meant. I thought it was cool and a handy feature I could hook into that little RSS app I found on Kubuntu.

Didn't win the competition, but expanded it over a few years and kept using it as my main blog until it fell aside when I went to university.

But unfortunately since the death of Google Reader, RSS hasn't found a way back into my life.

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