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Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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post #215

Instead of just reacting to the instantly agreeable title, out of curiousity I read the blog post and checked the blogroll the author cites as the cause for him to comment on adding RSS support. It lists 33 blogs. However, out of 33, only 2 of them lack an RSS feed. cdevn and mikebabb. Neither has much content.

s/curiousity/curiosity

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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post #108

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.

I use an external feed reader, inoreader (and am thinking about using Gnome Feeds or whatever its called when it's a little less buggy), so it's useful for that anyways. I can just paste the home page in instead of digging around for a feed link in footers and what not. But I take your point, Firefox removing support really hurt me at the time too.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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post #31

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.

Medium has RSS feeds for pretty much everything, from users to tags to publications, to tags in a publications, to stories clapped on by a given user....

yes, that's what I said. For the longest time they only had comments though and not the posts themselves (or at least, they didn't advertise it if they already did). Now they have it but they don't have a proper meta tag and they don't link to it anywhere that I can find.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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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…

Just because you have kept using RSS doesn't mean that the community has grown or even that it has stayed constant in size. Interest in RSS (or at least the best proxy I could find, Google searches for "RSS") has been steadily declining since ~2006[1]. > If site doesn't have RSS that's shame and I probably never visit it again. Assuming RSS continues to decline, I imagine that more and more sites will stop supporting…

Google Trends is not an answer. It's more likely that people will soon be fed up with enormous unrelated content and infinite scrolling, and will revert back to what's actually useful: specialized and managable content.

And if you're searching for trends only, you'll be able to find that it's already happening. Community discovered that social networks is not an answer, the content is mostly garbage in there and nobody wants to 'scroll to infinity' anymore.

Look at Lisp trends at different time periods in the past 60 or so years. And then at Clojure or functional programming in general now.

Re: 'googler' - no it doesn't matter. Just because you're 'googler', doesn't mean that you're right.

Lets revise this in 10 years. My bet is: if not RSS, then better RSS ;)

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