I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
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I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
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Re: I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
#2I do this too! Reception is wonderful.
I also include a short description of rss, which parts to support with an example and a description of how one could make an rss feed: you take whatever code produces the index html, remove everything except the part that outputs for each item the title, introduction text, the link and the publication date.
Followed by one more short example rss with $title
Not that any developer would really need this but it puts everything they need to know and do on a single page. You don't have to think, just do it.
Re: I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
#3RSS is great. Most blog engines support RSS by default. Podcasts typically use RSS (even if the app goes to great length to hide it).
I sometimes wonder why there is so much push for "federation" and so few for... well just simple interoperable solutions that just require a client to connect to whatever server it wants with a well-known protocol.
Re: I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
#4Recently I have posted about RSDS (really simple decentralized syndication) - a protocol that tries to solve RSS content global discovery problem. Here is the link if you are interested to read more about it
Re: I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
#5RSS is indeed worth advocating for. One of its greatest strengths is its simplicity.
Re: I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
#6I'm still waiting for https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/ to catch.
Re: I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
#7This is a great initiative. Large tech companies, through hijacking our web experience and pursuing maximum scale, have normalized not being able to talk to a human being on the other side of a website/app/business.
In many situations you _can_ just send an email. Most often someone will read it and be very happy to help out if they can. Not always, but how much of a time and effort investment is an email really?
The best part is that a few kind words can absolutely make someone’s week.
Re: I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
#8As a general PSA, youtube channels have an RSS feed to alert you when a favourite creator releases a new video.
The form is
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2wdo5v...
where channel_id is the channel hash code which is buried in the source for the "nicely named" channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@CuttingEdgeEngineering
and can be found without source diving via (say) FeedBro (RSS browser extension) "Find Feeds in Current Tab" function.
Re: I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
#9Love RSS, been using (and paying for) miniflux for a few years now.
Do someone knows a way to retrieve RSS feeds URLs for any podcast that would be hosted on major platforms? (Spotify, Apple Music)
I subscribed to podcast having some hosted website (where they are publishing the RSS feed from) but most of them don’t
Re: I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
#10I have been doing that for plaintext emails. Whenever I receive an HTML-only email (that my email reader cannot open), I send a kind email to the company, asking if they could consider adding a plaintext version next to it. I clearly explain that they can keep the HTML version as a default, and that some people need plaintext for accessibility and security reasons.
I often receive answers, that surprised me! People saying "thank you for your suggestion, we will think about what we can do". None of them has every changed anything (I've been doing that for years). I don't even know if they did anything more than answering to the email.