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Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by WorldMaker »

saagarjha wrote: post #83
non-entity wrote: post #61

I'm thinking of starting a blog soon, does anyone know if the popular static site generators (Hugo, Jekyll, etc.) have trivial support for RSS?

Jekyll has a plug-in (jekyll-feed) for adding an Atom feed, which is what I use for my website: https://saagarjha.com/feed.xml

With Jekyll you can also get a simple RSS view directly in a page template, rather than bring in a full plugin. (Useful, for instance, on GitHub Pages where the available plugins are restricted.)

For example: https://github.com/WorldMaker/blog.worldmaker.net/blob/gh-pa...

(Mine's additional fun because I also tried to make sure that three previous RSS URLs remained supported in my migrations across multiple blog engines over more than a decade and a half.)

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by saagarjha »

WorldMaker wrote: post #171
saagarjha wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jekyll has a plug-in (jekyll-feed) for adding an Atom feed, which is what I use for my website: https://saagarjha.com/feed.xml

With Jekyll you can also get a simple RSS view directly in a page template, rather than bring in a full plugin. (Useful, for instance, on GitHub Pages where the available plugins are restricted.) For example: https://github.com/WorldMaker/blog.worldmaker.net/blob/gh-pa... (Mine's additional fun because I also tried to make sure that three previous RSS URLs remained supported in my migrations across multiple blog engi…

jekyll-feed is whitelisted for use on GitHub Pages: https://pages.github.com/versions/

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by danShumway »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

I'm really glad you enjoyed the article :)

I realize that there are some ways that people serve ads where they vet them and make sure they're not tracking readers. But even if it was easy to set something like that up, I wouldn't feel good running sponsored content or ads on my platforms -- it's not the relationship I want to have with my readers.

I take a much more negative view of ads than most other people I know. I don't just dislike ads that track users or that are poorly vetted. I dislike the psychological effect that ads have on people, I dislike the attention that they take, and I am very cautious of monetization schemes that are too closely integrated into the consumption of content. I can't think of a way I could run ads that wouldn't make reading my blog a worse experience.

I know that's a somewhat extreme position to take. But it's not that advertising is inherently evil, it's just that it has more consequences and costs than most people realize. It's not only about privacy, security, or money.

Given how large the current advertising industry is, where possible I try to block it and harm it indiscriminately. I encourage people to block ads even on websites that they would otherwise support. I think it would be good for society if the advertising industry got a lot smaller, even if that makes funding online content harder.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by sys_64738 »

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 use RSS for everything and anything which isn't an RSS feed gets ignored. Life is too short.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by sys_64738 »

zenlot wrote: post #130

I am surprised when people keep saying here that RSS is dead. I am using it more than ever, every site (including hn news) configured by topic in Inoreader. I even have reddit feeds within it via inline reddit. This way I can see my read/unread counts and mark favorites. I can also quickly export my feeds. It works cross device and it's the only source I use for news, articles or anything else I read on web. If site…

Love Inoreader as it's the closet to Google Reader IMO.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by meerita »

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'm using NetNewsWire, they recently shipped 5.0. RSS is slowing getting back. https://inessential.com/2018/08/31/netnewswire_comes_home

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by choward »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #78
smush wrote: post #68

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> 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.

Do you think that's what telemetry is actually used for?

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by paxys »

I don't get why everyone here is complaining about RSS dying. It still exists. Almost every blog platform and news/content website publishes RSS feeds. There are some great apps for reading feeds on desktop and mobile (including features like offline syncing). There are a bunch of RSS add-ons for Chrome and Firefox. Slack natively supports piping feeds into a channel. You can even build RSS workflows with Zapier or IFTTT.

Yes it isn't the hottest thing in the tech world today, but it doesn't have to be.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by WorldMaker »

saagarjha wrote: post #172
WorldMaker wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With Jekyll you can also get a simple RSS view directly in a page template, rather than bring in a full plugin. (Useful, for instance, on GitHub Pages where the available plugins are restricted.) For example: https://github.com/WorldMaker/blog.worldmaker.net/blob/gh-pa... (Mine's additional fun because I also tried to make sure that three previous RSS URLs remained supported in my migrations across multiple blog engi…

jekyll-feed is whitelisted for use on GitHub Pages: https://pages.github.com/versions/

Good to know.

(Looks like Jekyll-feed was added to GitHub Pages sometime in 2016, and I last updated my RSS feed way back in 2015.)

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