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Nice idea. Related - Is there anything that can add the select number of Twitter accounts I want to follow to this Atom or RSS feed? Without exposing myself to toxic replies, toxic suggested tweets and toxic trending topics? I've thought for years there should be something like that. Presumably it's a grey area with APIs or scraping.
Why Atom instead of RSS? I understand the differences between the two formats[1] but I am curious what it is about Atom that caused the maker of this project to choose it over RSS. [1] http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-betwe...
The article you link lists numerous advantages to using Atom over RSS (and no advantages to RSS). Why would you consider RSS over Atom?
The only reason I can think of is that people often use RSS synonymously to feeds.
What's wrong with email newsletters? I actually like them quite a bit.
The only benefit I can see even for non-personalized newsletters is that you have it in your mailbox and can use your normal email filtering tools to deal with newsletter messages.
Ironically I convert atom feeds into email newsletters using rss2email. One less app to keep open.
(But I use Feedly.com web site on computer and Feedly app on phone now which is easier for managing RSS than Thunderbird by a mile. Though looking below there is Export/Import of feeds, I'm not sure there's a way to just sync them up everywhere. And I don't use Thunderbird on my phone!)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-subscribe-news-feed...
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The article you link lists numerous advantages to using Atom over RSS (and no advantages to RSS). Why would you consider RSS over Atom?
I wonder why anyone would still use RSS over Atom. Atom was already supported by virtually all feed readers when Google Reader was shut down. And that was nearly 8 years ago. The only reason I can think of is that people often use RSS synonymously to feeds.
Atom is the better format, but - like any time you work with XML - you should never try to hand-bomb string output. Use an XML library, or preferably an Atom library.
What's wrong with email newsletters? I actually like them quite a bit.
99% of my inboxes are emails from non-humans. I'm ready to stream them like RSS or Twitter.. and catch the ones I care about.
Why Atom instead of RSS? I understand the differences between the two formats[1] but I am curious what it is about Atom that caused the maker of this project to choose it over RSS. [1] http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-betwe...
My favourite is the format of all content: is it HTML or text? RSS doesn’t care, and leaves you to guess. So people added a namespace to fix that up, and you end up with what I think is normally spelled to replace or whatever it is—but there’s no equivalent for other content fields like titles. And because you can’t trust that tool will use , now you need both. (And when you get to podcasts, the theme of the day is having the same field expressed in four or five different namespaces for different tools, in some cases for things that Atom has but RSS lacks.)
I have an article on my blog entitled ::v::. I expect that a few RSS readers would mangle it if I served an RSS feed, but I serve an Atom feed, so I can express the title correctly:
<code>&lt;_&gt;::v::&lt;_&gt;</code>
wrapping of that title! Now try that in RSS!) Anyway, NewsBlur got it right, and if any other client gets it wrong I can point to it and say that it is unequivocally a bug, whereas with RSS… eh, there’s enough ambiguity to drive a spaceship through, so what does “bug” even mean?I hate the way that feeds are so commonly generically called “RSS”, because it gives mindshare to the bad and inferior product.
The only reason you should ever use RSS feeds is because you’re dealing with podcasts, because Apple sadly ignored the emerging Atom format when they did podcasts in iTunes in 2005, and annoyingly froze things in time there and then, and everyone else stupidly followed them, so that most of the major podcast things don’t support Atom… even if they sometimes claim to. (Like validation tools that allege that Atom is fine, butcher it completely if you give it to them, and report false results like that this RSS feed is fine or whatnot.)