Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/RSSFadingBelief Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/RSSFadingBelief?atomcommentsDWiki2019-04-09T22:38:28ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/RSSFadingBelief.By Pete Zaitcev on /blog/web/RSSFadingBelieftag:CSpace:blog/web/RSSFadingBelief:3b2df1767752475c6431a5564e6ba36032439928Pete Zaitcev<div class="wikitext"><p>Another common example is site owners not caring about RSS at all. If it goes broken, it stays broken, because they do not use it themselves.</p>
<p>Here's a pefrect example:</p>
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https://www.avweb.com/rss/
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<p>If you click on one of the links, such as Insider, you're going to end with a Cloudflare error page.</p>
</div>2019-04-09T22:38:28ZBy JMac on /blog/web/RSSFadingBelieftag:CSpace:blog/web/RSSFadingBelief:c795100f2e21de4cdea599dae71362963bb8d210JMac<div class="wikitext"><p>I've been using RSS forever and never realised there was such a thing as auto discovery. I usually look for the icon or hunt around the page source.</p>
</div>2019-04-06T08:11:34ZBy Sixty4k on /blog/web/RSSFadingBelieftag:CSpace:blog/web/RSSFadingBelief:d08f44bf05d940547a52accd4112b9109d100489Sixty4khttps://nortoncottage.com<div class="wikitext"><p>This has been killing me with newer blog engines and sites; either a default of no feed, or no support for auto detect. </p>
<p>I'm hopeful that the steam building about getting off the major social networks will reinvigorate rss awareness. But I suspect that we'll have a few years of it getting less support and less awareness, until it's only the old sites and odd fringes that support it at all.</p>
</div>2019-04-06T03:01:34ZBy Hales on /blog/web/RSSFadingBelieftag:CSpace:blog/web/RSSFadingBelief:e428b2ea53cccaa7f6806094559192c4020c5c0aHaleshttps://halestrom.net/<div class="wikitext"><p>I had no idea my feed reader could auto-detect feeds from html sources. I've always manually hunted feed links -- no other non-browser program I've ever encountered happily parses HTML pages. Psychologically "HTML/CSS/js" is in one world and every other program in my OS is in another; crossover points between these two worlds (operating systems?) are rare and notable for users.</p>
<p>I have dozens of feeds in my reader that I've been trimming and adding to for years. An extra data point for how much users know about feeds :)</p>
<p>The concept of feeds will always have a place for users. All of the other options that I've seen are centralised, and as their supporting companies come and go I suspect more and more users will lean towards solutions that rely on less external parties. Just like how we're always going to browse the web with generic browsers as the proprietary options come and go.</p>
</div>2019-04-04T08:24:14ZBy taintedkernel on /blog/web/RSSFadingBelieftag:CSpace:blog/web/RSSFadingBelief:8bb405f1f875e9bfedbf5bfb35677fea64711963taintedkernelhttp://github.com/taintedkernel<div class="wikitext"><p>I hate to say it, but have to agree with you that RSS is fading. It's the only thing that keeps me sane with trying to keep up with all of the various news sources. Social networking is useless in this regard; my hope is that RSS adoption starts to become more popular again as people reach the same conclusion.</p>
<p>I've even tinkered with using an email-to-RSS service for a few sites, with very limited success unfortunately.</p>
</div>2019-04-04T05:07:36ZBy superkuh on /blog/web/RSSFadingBelieftag:CSpace:blog/web/RSSFadingBelief:c5655613ac2578c66a61a951791d552041bbb78fsuperkuhhttp://superkuh.com/<div class="wikitext"><p>Just as a counter example: I found your blog just a couple days ago via hackernews, saw the RSS autodiscovery icon in my browser, and added you to my native RSS reader. No problems.</p>
<p>But yeah, I often find myself emailing various sci-tech domains about where their RSS feed is. It's usually there but no autodiscovery so I make sure to send an example of what to put in the header.</p>
<p>RSS may be fading still but the rate of the fade has decreased in the last year or two as people explicitly try to decouple from centralized social media and link sharing sites.</p>
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