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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: 0.405s | 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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1. sneak ◴[16 Jan 25 23:06 UTC] No.42732068[source]▶
I regularly get emails from people asking where my RSS feed is on my site (or why I don’t have one) when every page on it has the link tags in the header that allow it to be autodiscovered.
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2. jeroenhd ◴[17 Jan 25 12:01 UTC] No.42736655[source]▶
Autodiscovery pretty much died when browsers removed RSS. It's a shame, really.

I do use an RSS reader but because of the nature of the modern internet, it's a separate app.