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Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by neilv »

data_base wrote: post #83
neilv wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now that browser developers did their best to kill RSS/Atom... Does a Web site practically need to do anything to advertise their feed to the diehard RSS/Atom users, other than use the `link` element? Is there a worthwhile convention for advertising RSS/Atom visually in the page, too? (On one site, I tried adding an "RSS" icon, linking to the Atom feed XML, alongside all the usual awful social media site icons. But t…

I use RSS Style[1] to make the RSS and Atom feeds for my blog human readable. It styles the xml feeds and inserts a message at the top about the feed being meant for news readers, not people. Thus technically making it "safe" for less tech savvy people. [1]: https://www.rss.style/

What about Google killing XSLT? https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-x...

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by BeetleB »

vegabook wrote: post #15

This post like many recent ones like it, essentially wants the internet to go backwards to what it once was pre-LLMs [edit: and pre-concentration]. I'd like to suggest that you should follow through and go all the way to pre-internet itself, and rediscover handwriting, in-person local meeting groups, non-digital relationships, and using your hands not on a keyboard. Today I (with difficulty) left my macbook closed al…

+1 for writing letters. I do it with two people (one lives in the same city!)

But it's not an either/or proposition.

Also, keep in mind that POSSE and this site predate LLMs by quite a bit.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by rednafi »

ModernMech wrote: post #88
rednafi wrote: post #80

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I removed all the bullshit social media icons and made sure that the rss icon is the first thing you notice on the landing page[1]. [1]: https://rednafi.com

With the lack of styling, I'm sorry to say I didn't notice the RSS icon at first at all. Adding the typical orange background to the icon would fix that.

Fair criticism. I'm trying to find a way to present that without being obnoxious.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by rednafi »

neilv wrote: post #87
rednafi wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I removed all the bullshit social media icons and made sure that the rss icon is the first thing you notice on the landing page[1]. [1]: https://rednafi.com

For a personal site, I'd probably just do that. (My friends are generally savvy and principled enough not to do most social media, so no need for me to endorse it by syndicating there.) But for a commercial marketing site that must be on the awful social media, I'm wondering about quietly supporting RSS/Atom without compromising the experience for the masses.

Fair. For commercial sites and pretty much anything you want more eyeballs on, you need to put them on the social media.

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Post by _heimdall »

neilv wrote: post #91
data_base wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use RSS Style[1] to make the RSS and Atom feeds for my blog human readable. It styles the xml feeds and inserts a message at the top about the feed being meant for news readers, not people. Thus technically making it "safe" for less tech savvy people. [1]: https://www.rss.style/

What about Google killing XSLT? https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-x...

Browsers really should have embraced XSLT rather that abandoned it. Now we're stuck trying yet again to reinvent solutions already handled by REST [1].

[1] https://tonysull.co/articles/mcp-is-the-wrong-answer/

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by ozgrakkurt »

vegabook wrote: post #15

This post like many recent ones like it, essentially wants the internet to go backwards to what it once was pre-LLMs [edit: and pre-concentration]. I'd like to suggest that you should follow through and go all the way to pre-internet itself, and rediscover handwriting, in-person local meeting groups, non-digital relationships, and using your hands not on a keyboard. Today I (with difficulty) left my macbook closed al…

LLMs had no impact on how content is organized as far as I can tell.

Some people are just using it to post more garbage into the platforms they already were using

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by lazarus01 »

I just started building my own website today with Django. I’m doing it because I just enjoy doing it. Most of my work is in data and ML infrastructure and it is just killing me. Working on the front end has opened my mind to possibility and given me new inspiration.

I love hn and was inspired by all the devs who have their own site. I was drowning in work, but put the Django architecture together on vacation, started putting things together today and it’s been a blast.

I don’t enjoy social media and was thinking to posse intrinsically.

I appreciate this post and the authors perspective.

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by eleventen »

lazarus01 wrote: post #97

I just started building my own website today with Django. I’m doing it because I just enjoy doing it. Most of my work is in data and ML infrastructure and it is just killing me. Working on the front end has opened my mind to possibility and given me new inspiration. I love hn and was inspired by all the devs who have their own site. I was drowning in work, but put the Django architecture together on vacation, started…

What features did you want for your personal site that lead to choosing Django (or a backend framework at all) instead of a static site generator?

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by rbbydotdev »

Very similar to what I’m building with opal editor. The “site” is static markdown which lives and is stored in your browser, css, images, markdown and html. You can keep it as is with markdown or compile to html. From there you can easily push to vercel GitHub cloudflare netlify. Cheating the server less bit of it by using CORS proxies

https://opaledx.com

https://github.com/rbbydotdev/opal

MIT and open source no documentation yet. But coming very soon

Re: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Post by frogulis »

susam wrote: post #37

Also, don't forget to set up an RSS or Atom feed for your website. Contrary to the recurring claim that RSS is dead, most of the traffic to my website still comes from RSS feeds, even in 2̶0̶2̶5̶ 2026! In fact, one of my silly little games became moderately popular because someone found it in my RSS feed and shared it on HN. [1] From the referer (sic) data in my web server logs (which is not completely reliable but s…

Is there any reason today to use RSS over Atom? Atom sounds like it has all the advantages, except maybe compatibility with some old or stubborn clients?
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