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I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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744 points DearNarwhal | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 12:18 UTC | HN request time: 1.172s | source
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netghost ◴[16 Jan 25 18:34 UTC] No.42729058[source]▶
The one thing that kills me is the number of "modern" blogs/sites that don't offer rss or atom is really frustrating. If I really like your site, please let me be an engaged reader and let me know when you have something valuable to say again!

I've even resorted to adding features in my personal feedreader to seek out common feed locations or APIs that common blogging tools leave on mostly unnoticed.

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bbkane ◴[16 Jan 25 19:10 UTC] No.42729528[source]▶
My SSG (Zola) offers an RSS generation option, so I turned it on. Several months later I realized it was broken for some reason and I hadn't noticed.

Nobody emailed me or anything (I'm not a popular blogger), so I just turned the RSS generation off

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PaulKeeble ◴[16 Jan 25 19:40 UTC] No.42729895[source]▶
No blog is worth the hassle and honestly there is always a feed broken somewhere showing up in our reader we just wait for them to fix it. If they don't fix it then at some point it will just get deleted. That is just the reality of maintaining your own feed websites remove feeds sometimes and all you can do is go back see if its changed address and if not remove it.
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1. ttepasse ◴[16 Jan 25 20:47 UTC] No.42730703[source]▶
I’m carrying my feed subscription list from reader to reader since 2002 – and every few years I’m thinking of thinning the list of long defunct blogs or at least look where they are now. Then I do something different instead.