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Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by saagarjha »

non-entity wrote: post #61

I'm thinking of starting a blog soon, does anyone know if the popular static site generators (Hugo, Jekyll, etc.) have trivial support for RSS?

Jekyll has a plug-in (jekyll-feed) for adding an Atom feed, which is what I use for my website: https://saagarjha.com/feed.xml

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by ajsharp »

AndrewStephens wrote: post #42
jandrese wrote: post #22

RSS seems to have died off as social networks decided that they wanted to capture the users and vertically integrate. RSS turns them into commodities, and that's the opposite of what they want. Plus it's difficult to monetize an RSS feed.

True, it is sad. What I don't understand is why Google didn't continue to push for RSS like they used to in ye olden times with Reader. High quality blogs both produce content and link to other high quality content - both things that Google should be interested in to improve search. Instead they decided to capture that information (and eyeballs) with Google+, a calculated gamble that they lost. If I was king of Googl…

Google wants you to go through them, not direct to the source. The more you go through them the more data they can track and ads they can sell you.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by clintonb »

lbatista wrote: post #80
bad_user wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RSS isn't dead. Smart bloggers will always expose an RSS feed, because readers following your RSS feed are more likely to read your blog than traffic from other sources. Having an RSS feed is the slightly weaker version of the mailing lists. Mail which is also going strong — and the easiest way to build a mailing list btw, is to connect your RSS feed to Mailchimp. And RSS feeds are mandatory for podcasts too. Some bl…

RSS died when Google Reader died.

Not really. RSS is still on nearly every WordPress site. I simply switches from Google Reader to Feedly.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by sandov »

I've never really understood how one is supposed to use RSS.

Do authors include the whole article in the RSS article "body" or only a glimpse? I think I've seen both things and don't know what to do. Are readers expected to read the article in the RSS reader itself or open it in a web browser?

I've read a couple of tutorials and tried to use it, but I never quite understood it, and I didn't like any of the clients I tried.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by adventured »

scarface74 wrote: post #64
jandrese wrote: post #22

RSS seems to have died off as social networks decided that they wanted to capture the users and vertically integrate. RSS turns them into commodities, and that's the opposite of what they want. Plus it's difficult to monetize an RSS feed.

I’m not aware of any news site or blog that doesn’t still support RSS. As far as difficulty in monetizing, John Gruber has been making quite a bit of money for years selling one RSS entry at the beginning of the week and a thank you post at the end of the week.

> I’m not aware of any news site or blog that doesn’t still support RSS.

Bloomberg is one of the largest new sites; a top 1000 global site and top 200 US site by traffic. It has no RSS feeds.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by overcast »

favorited wrote: post #86
overcast wrote: post #47

What the heck is a good free or paid RSS reader these days? I paid for Reeder, and a few months later they discontinued support.

If you're on a Mac, NetNewsWire just released a new version after many years. Plus, it's open source.

I'll check that one, looks like the only one that doesn't require some type of online account. I just want a desktop client.

Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site

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Post by jeena »

jamie_ca wrote: post #75
jandrese wrote: post #22

RSS seems to have died off as social networks decided that they wanted to capture the users and vertically integrate. RSS turns them into commodities, and that's the opposite of what they want. Plus it's difficult to monetize an RSS feed.

I subscribe to a bunch of webcomics via RSS, and a few have changed over the years from embedding the comic into the feed to just having the feed be a link to the comic page so that they can still get some ad impressions. I also subscribe to email newsletters that have sponsored links/blurbs in their content, and I'm sure that one could monetize RSS content similarly.

I was so annoyed at the fact that I couldn't see the web comic in my feed reader that I wrote plugins for TT-RSS which would on the fly replace them with the original size pictures: https://github.com/jeena/tt-rss-plugins/blob/master/jp_stutt...
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