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Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

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569 points todsacerdoti | 3 comments | 05 Jan 25 01:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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scarface_74 ◴[05 Jan 25 05:50 UTC] No.42600029[source]▶
Yet unlike the 20+ other websites that I can just copy the main url into NetNewsWire, it doesn’t seem to have an RSS feed…
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StressedDev ◴[05 Jan 25 06:52 UTC] No.42600214[source]▶
Perhaps you should either file a bug with NetNewsWire, or debug NetNewsWire and submit a PR so it works with her blog.
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scarface_74 ◴[05 Jan 25 12:54 UTC] No.42601455[source]▶
So we are now going back to special casing websites that don’t follow standards like the IE6 days?
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1. munch117 ◴[05 Jan 25 13:35 UTC] No.42601653{3}[source]▶
Do you need special-casing to recognise

   <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="/w/atom.xml">
?
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2. scarface_74 ◴[05 Jan 25 14:05 UTC] No.42601800[source]▶
Using the link given from the website

https://imgur.com/a/DkifnBG

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3. munch117 ◴[05 Jan 25 16:10 UTC] No.42602706[source]▶
The w3.org validator says that https://rachelbythebay.com/w/atom.xml is a valid Atom 1.0 feed (https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fra...).

It does seem like something's off about the feed. Vienna can read the file, but it comes up empty. But it doesn't seem like the problem is standards non-compliance.