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I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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744 points DearNarwhal | 2 comments | 16 Jan 25 12:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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throw0101c ◴[16 Jan 25 15:04 UTC] No.42726189[source]▶
For those implementing feeds, "RSS" seems to get a lot of mentions, but how much of it is RSS-as-such and how much is "RSS" as a generic term for "feed", with Atom also perhaps being implemented:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(web_standard)

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1. kevincox ◴[16 Jan 25 15:54 UTC] No.42726960[source]▶
> but how much of it is RSS-as-such

Almost all of it. RSS is just a much more specific term than "feed" as many people talk about their Twitter or Facebook "feed". I have yet to see a reader that couldn't handle both RSS and Atom and you will see a mix of formats being produced.

I wrote a bit more detail about this in the past: https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/#form...

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2. ttepasse ◴[16 Jan 25 20:43 UTC] No.42730633[source]▶
One exceptions are sadly podcast feeds and clients. Although technically the additional podcast elements or just a basic "non-funky" podcast feed shouldn’t be a hard problem, the podcast ecosystem mostly ignored Atom and produced and parsed only RSS 2. Even Apple‘s iTunes/Podcasts.app which launched in 2005 with support for both, gave up official support for Atom some years ago.