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Would it be useful to have a site https://use-rss.example.com/?feed=https://thepcspy.com/feeds... which explained what RSS/Atom is, and suggested decent feed readers with instructions on how to set them up? The idea would be that blog authors could link to that next to (or instead of) their RSS icon. Such blogs could still include a link HTML tag for extension autodiscovery.
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I suspect that's right... But what have they replaced it with? And I mean that in both directions. I've always consumed more RSS than I've generated and it's still my primary source for tech news. Do they just rely on service-level federation? Seems pretty sad.
I imagine they use Twitter as RSS.
Most RSS readers still know how to find RSS feeds (through the autodiscovery headers that used to power things like Firefox' old navbar support). So people still using RSS feeds in 2022 (such as myself) generally still know how to find them, icon or not. But yeah, bringing new users to RSS in 2022 is a hard advertising/teaching experience. Instead of your RSS icon pointing directly to your feed in 2022 (because just…
The browser doesn't, but you can use an XSLT stylesheet like this to make it look a little bit nicer: https://karmanyaah.malhotra.cc/feed.xml
An XSLT stylesheet allows formatting XML content as HTML/CSS. Of course, I haven't solved linking people to feed readers (maybe just feedly), but it could be done with this.
Source code: https://github.com/karmanyaahm/karmanyaahm.github.io/blob/d6...
> I've been consuming RSS for all this time but the rest of the world seems to have moved on. Feeling pretty old right now. If it makes you feel better, I consume all my blog content through RSS. I use the Newsblur.com aggregator to follow roughly 200 RSS feeds. I find it sad that a lot of blogs that support RSS (like all the blogs on Substack) don't even post their RSS URLs. You just have to know they're there. (For…
My impression is many new bloggers are among the ones who have never heard about RSS.
I suspect that's right... But what have they replaced it with? And I mean that in both directions. I've always consumed more RSS than I've generated and it's still my primary source for tech news. Do they just rely on service-level federation? Seems pretty sad.
To recover the ability - in Firefox - to detect and subscribe to RSS feed in your online RSS reader, consider installing the Want My RSS extension https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/want-my-rss/
It's more about the visitors to my websites. It used to be enough to embed a feed and people would subscribe. These days there's so little in-browser glue that you either have to know what to do with it, or... or what?
The point here is to try to work out how people stay up to date with individual websites.
I wrote this after posting here, might explain better than this little comment. https://thepcspy.com/read/what-happened-to-rss/
Most RSS readers still know how to find RSS feeds (through the autodiscovery headers that used to power things like Firefox' old navbar support). So people still using RSS feeds in 2022 (such as myself) generally still know how to find them, icon or not. But yeah, bringing new users to RSS in 2022 is a hard advertising/teaching experience. Instead of your RSS icon pointing directly to your feed in 2022 (because just…
> because just about no browser today does anything nicer than wall of XML The browser doesn't, but you can use an XSLT stylesheet like this to make it look a little bit nicer: https://karmanyaah.malhotra.cc/feed.xml An XSLT stylesheet allows formatting XML content as HTML/CSS. Of course, I haven't solved linking people to feed readers (maybe just feedly), but it could be done with this. Source code: https://github.c…
I could use XLST to tell people what my feed is, how to use it, etc, all without interrupting those who already knew.
There's a solution for both issues: apply styling and add explanation to your RSS feed. Here's mine:
It's based on this solution (adjusted for Atom feeds):
https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds/blob/main/tools/pretty-...