just like RSS should be there for latest articles, sitemaps should also be there for collection of all articles on the blog. So that we are not at the mercy of crawlers to get list of all articles of a blog.
Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#242I 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 I…
Agree with you - I think the problem isn't the lack of widely available feeds but the harmful sentiment that RSS is somehow obsolete and unnecessary so many newer well meaning apps don't spend the effort to add it.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#243What do people use to read RSS feeds? I stopped following RSS feeds ever since Google Reader shut down, and wondering what a good free replacement is.
newsblur!
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#244RSS feeds are designed for an offline first usecase. Almost no one subscribes to this usecase anymore since mobile internet is just REALLY good MOST of the time.
When it isn't - subway rides, long commutes passing through areas with weak signals - i just listen to podcasts instead of the frustration of reading an article and not being able to search anything instantly.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#245Having struggled with RSS in the past, I will give a few reasons of why I ended up removing RSS from my blog: 1. RSS traffic trickled down to almost nothing. Hardly anyone uses RSS any more as a daily reader^1. 2. Spammers were using my RSS feed to wholesale copy the content from my blog. Identical copies of my blog went up in several different locations, each with their own copy of ads from the scammers. Some of the…
I mean, if you remove your feed, you probably lose me as a reader.
They explained that RSS traffic was minimal, and what there was couldn't be monetized, so they probably don't care.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#246Looking at the blogroll he's talking aboit, I counted :
9 blogs with RSS Autodiscovery + link pointing to the RSS feed
20 blogs with RSS Autodiscovery only
3 blogs with link to the RSS feed
4 blogs with nothing (including it's own blog)
RSS link+autodiscovery would be so cool on every blog!
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#247Curiosity question, will most modern RSS-readers be able to find an RSS link on their own, or is it a good idea for me to include a link on a homepage that users can copy-paste? I've never advertised any of my rss feeds, I just leave them up at /rss.xml. I was under the impression that RSS feed locations were mostly standardized, but I'm noticing that the feed location for this blog is at a different URL.
An RSS link on homepage AND a RSS Autodiscovery link in the source code is for me the best solution. RSS Autodiscovery make it discoverable by any RSS reader
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
Nobody did use them though. They belong in an extension, it's the perfect use case. Pick any of the hundreds. Like this great one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/ Also why would you use Waterfox. It's like Firefox ESR, with a few changed settings and much slower security updates.
Want My RSS is also a pretty good Firefox extension to detect, display and subscribe to RSS feeds
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/want-my-rss/
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#249I 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…
Why would I want to turn off the telemetry?
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#250RSS 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.
The social networks weren't the ones who made RSS die off. The base of publishers and users just wasn't there. That said, RSS is not dead, just not as visible as it used to be.