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Please, expose your RSS

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Re: Please, expose your RSS

#112

I definitely see the author's points, but I disagree with the proposed solution. Feed discoverability should be a basic browser feature, not something web developers need to actively implement, nor some information that users have to scrape themselves from the DOM. I made an extension back in the day that parses the tags and puts back the feed icon where it's supposed to be (on the right side of the URL bar), and als…

Thanks for the extension, looks great!

Sadly doesn't work with the https://news.ycombinator.com/rss feed as it forces the download IIUC.

Re: Please, expose your RSS

#113

>> if you're going to add an RSS button, please ensure it looks like an RSS button and is in RSS orange > This is an excellent idea and I have done so here. I don't know if this was sarcasm or whether it's just a bit silly that literally the next line of text on the page is a link (the link?) to subscribe—with the RSS icon—in white on magenta.

FYI there is an orange RSS icon in the header
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