If your main concern is people scrapping your blog or only reading the RSS without visiting it directly, at least put the first paragraph in the feed. I prefer seeing the whole article, but at least having a preview let me decide if I want to keep reading, and it let me knows something new came out.
Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#52What the heck is a good free or paid RSS reader these days? I paid for Reeder, and a few months later they discontinued support.
inoreader, Newsblur, The Old Reader, NetNewsWire
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#53Curiosity question, will most modern RSS-readers be able to find an RSS link on their own, or is it a good idea for me to include a link on a homepage that users can copy-paste? I've never advertised any of my rss feeds, I just leave them up at /rss.xml. I was under the impression that RSS feed locations were mostly standardized, but I'm noticing that the feed location for this blog is at a different URL.
They should be able to find it as long as you have a or tag with the correct attributes/values on them.
See this section and the one below it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/RSS/Getting...
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#54RSS can be used for more than traditional blogs, too.
The CII Best Practices badge has a "projects" page that lists all projects working on or achieving a badge: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects . You'll notice an RSS symbol; if you click on it, you'll be led to https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/feed (in your preferred language) that will show you projects listed in reverse-latest-edit order (so you can see who's made the latest changes to their badge info).
Once you start thinking of RSS as a way to tell people "what's new" in a simple common format, there are lots of interesting uses for it.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#55I tend to read my RSS feeds on the London Underground, where signal is non existent in the tunnels, and patchy in the stations. My app of choice (newsblur) lets you sync your feeds for offline browsing so I do this before heading home. Unfortunately a lot of feeds I subscribe to tend to truncate their articles with a summary or maybe just the first paragraph, with a link to continue reading the full article. I get wh…
That's a great idea. I would definitely use a service like that.
I think other people in this thread are running services that do a similar thing.
My crisis of conscience was around storing the full text of the articles on my own server and then presenting them as a new feed on my domain, e.g. https://mydomain.com/feeds/eurogamer.xml
Everything in the feed is that gets generated is exactly the same as the original feed (canonical link to the actual article, publsh date, author etc) the only difference was the text in the body of each entry.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#56I tend to read my RSS feeds on the London Underground, where signal is non existent in the tunnels, and patchy in the stations. My app of choice (newsblur) lets you sync your feeds for offline browsing so I do this before heading home. Unfortunately a lot of feeds I subscribe to tend to truncate their articles with a summary or maybe just the first paragraph, with a link to continue reading the full article. I get wh…
Sorry, I do this (provide only truncated text) in my RSS feed because I couldn't figure out a way of keeping the special formatting my site is designed around.
Its a cop out that I still feel bad about. Maybe I will fix it sometime.
If it makes you feel better, you can run your extractor against sheep.horse as much as you want.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#57I tend to read my RSS feeds on the London Underground, where signal is non existent in the tunnels, and patchy in the stations. My app of choice (newsblur) lets you sync your feeds for offline browsing so I do this before heading home. Unfortunately a lot of feeds I subscribe to tend to truncate their articles with a summary or maybe just the first paragraph, with a link to continue reading the full article. I get wh…
That's a great idea. I would definitely use a service like that.
Posted this in another reply, it's a project I've worked on for a while, works essentially the way djhworld describes: https://fivefilters.org/content-only/
Source code of a slightly older version available at: https://bitbucket.org/fivefilters/full-text-rss/src/master/
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#58Having struggled with RSS in the past, I will give a few reasons of why I ended up removing RSS from my blog:
1. RSS traffic trickled down to almost nothing. Hardly anyone uses RSS any more as a daily reader^1.
2. Spammers were using my RSS feed to wholesale copy the content from my blog. Identical copies of my blog went up in several different locations, each with their own copy of ads from the scammers. Some of these blogs ranked higher than mine for certain search terms. Google would eventually catch on and remove them, but it was like playing whack a mole.
3. We did not make any money from the RSS feed. Even if we did find a way to monetize it (injecting ads into the feed, for example), see #1.
As a techie, yes yes yes I would like to have an RSS feed. But from a business standpoint, it doesn't make any sense these days.
^1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#59I tend to read my RSS feeds on the London Underground, where signal is non existent in the tunnels, and patchy in the stations. My app of choice (newsblur) lets you sync your feeds for offline browsing so I do this before heading home. Unfortunately a lot of feeds I subscribe to tend to truncate their articles with a summary or maybe just the first paragraph, with a link to continue reading the full article. I get wh…
Could you use a full web engine to scrape the info which would also load the ads?
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#60I think the worse RSS isn't in not having RSS, it's when they say "Hey here's a preview of what we wrote." I really enjoy reading content on my terms on not having to go everywhere to get it. It makes my life much more peaceful.
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