RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)(kevincox.ca)
57 points by KomoD | 10 comments
Kevin Cox's blog post listing technical best practices for publishing RSS/Atom feeds for a blog, ordered by importance with rationale.
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18 stories tagged rss, newest first.
RSS Feeds for Last.fm(lfm.xiffy.nl)
112 points by Baljhin | 38 comments
A small web tool that generates RSS feeds for a Last.fm user's recent, loved, and top tracks, top artists, and recommended tracks.
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence(blog.curiousquail.com)
1360 points by speckx | 295 comments
Personal blog post contrasting the prosecution of RSS co-creator Aaron Swartz for scraping with Meta's large-scale scraping facing little consequence.
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)(openrss.org)
541 points by pudgywalsh | 190 comments
An Open RSS blog post arguing that Google's product decisions and behavior significantly reduced adoption of RSS feeds.
Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs(text.blogosphere.app)
716 points by ramkarthikk | 185 comments
Blogosphere's minimal text frontpage, an HN-style aggregator listing recent posts from personal blogs across many categories.
PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading(stuartbreckenridge.net)
798 points by JumpCrisscross | 363 comments
Blog post criticizing a PC Gamer article recommending RSS readers for its popups, ads, and 37MB page weight that keeps downloading.
The “small web” is bigger than you might think(kevinboone.me)
515 points by speckx | 216 comments
Kevin Boone's blog post arguing the non-commercial "small web" of personal sites, including Gemini capsules, is larger than people assume, based on feed aggregators.
Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you(ooh.directory)
552 points by hisamafahri | 134 comments
Ooh.directory is a curated directory of 2,380 blogs organized by topic categories such as arts, computing, science, and personal blogs.
NetNewsWire Turns 23(netnewswire.blog)
323 points by robin_reala | 89 comments
NetNewsWire blog post marking the RSS reader's 23rd anniversary, noting the recent 7.0 release for Mac and iOS and work on 7.0.1.
In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information(blog.burkert.me)
328 points by curioussquirrel | 132 comments
A personal blog post by Tom Burkert praising RSS and the value of controlled, user-curated information feeds over algorithmic ones.
I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too(reedybear.bearblog.dev)
381 points by emschwartz | 160 comments
A Bear Blog post in which the author describes advocating for websites to support RSS feeds and urges readers to do the same.
I ditched the algorithm for RSS(joeyehand.com)
649 points by DearNarwhal | 250 comments
Personal blog post arguing for replacing algorithmic feeds with RSS, with setup guides for YouTube, IGN, Hacker News, Reddit and other sources.
The correct amount of ads is zero(manuelmoreale.com)
685 points by surprisetalk | 429 comments
Blog post by Manuel Moreale reacting to The Verge's new paywalled subscription and arguing that websites should carry no ads at all.
Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users(openrss.org)
472 points by campuscodi | 212 comments
Open RSS blog post explaining how Cloudflare's bot protection settings on websites can block RSS readers from fetching feeds.
Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes(pipes.digital)
418 points by sea-gold | 118 comments
Documentation page for Pipes, a visual programming editor for fetching, filtering, and combining RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds, inspired by Yahoo Pipes.
Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)(openrss.org)
810 points by stareatgoats | 292 comments
An Open RSS blog post from August 2023 arguing that Google's decisions, such as dropping RSS support in its products, hurt adoption of RSS feeds.
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement(anildash.com)
447 points by Tomte | 272 comments
Anil Dash blog post arguing that the phrase "wherever you get your podcasts" reflects podcasting's open, decentralized RSS-based model.
Style your RSS feed(darekkay.com)
396 points by captn3m0 | 131 comments
Blog post by Darek Kay explaining how to style RSS/Atom feeds so browsers render them as readable pages instead of raw XML.