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  • Shamot
    421·
    8 months ago

    But it’s clear that Google has a history of building products with RSS and killing the RSS support once it’s established a user base.

    Not only RSS. It was the same with XMPP, and probably other things I don’t remember now. Better don’t rely on Google products.

    • pixelscriptEnglish
      40·
      8 months ago

      cough cough gmail

      (I use gmail and need to stop)

        • pixelscriptEnglish
          20·
          8 months ago

          The biggest and most obvious encroachment on standard email that Gmail does is opting for a tag system over a folder system. It is superior, but nonstandard. If you rely on this, it’s Gmail vendor lock-in for you.

  • ScottEnglish
    240·
    8 months ago

    I will say I just found the RSS feeds for News, like as of 2 days ago.

  • chicken
    110·
    8 months ago8 months ago

    The browser had a built-in RSS button that would display in the browser location bar when any website you’re on had an RSS feed available. Clicking the button would then take you to the RSS feed for that web page

    How would this work? Do websites with rss feeds normally publish the url to that feed in some standard place? Are there any third party extensions that do it?

    • onoira [they/them]English
      350·
      8 months ago8 months ago

      How would this work? Do websites with rss feeds normally publish the url to that feed in some standard place?

      feeds are usually advertised in the page header as below, with type set to either application/rss+xml or application/atom+xml.

      <head>
  <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Example Feed" href="https://example.com/feed/" />
</head>

      Are there any third party extensions that do it?

      i don’t know about chrom[e|ium], but i use Awesome RSS for firefox.

      • Mikelius
        120·
        8 months ago

        How did I not know websites did this. Here I was always trying to guess the urls a few times before giving up lol. Today I learned…

        Thanks for the extension suggestion too!

        • kevincox
          40·
          8 months ago

          Most readers will also do this auto-discovery for you. So typically you can just paste the page or article URL and it will find the feed.

          Of course the extension is nicer because you don’t need to guess and check, you get a quick indicator if there is a feed or not.

          Personally I use Want My RSS because I like the preview which then lets me know if it is a full-text feed or just summaries. This is also Firefox only. But extensions for other browsers are available.

      • chicken
        90·
        8 months ago

        That’s perfect since I use FF anyway, thanks

    • DianogaEnglish
      111·
      8 months ago

      I believe there is a standard <meta> tag for an RSS feed

    • rinze
      70·
      8 months ago

      Also, some (most?) RSS readers don’t need the path to the feed directly. You give them the regular URL and they’ll figure it out. TinyTinyRSS does it.

    • The DoctorEnglish
      30·
      8 months ago

      Yes, they do. In no particular order:

      • Do a View Source on the site’s frontpage. You might see some HTML for “application/atom+xml” or “application/rss+xml”. The URLs associated with those hrefs will be for the ATOM and RSS feeds.
        • If you search for one of the following in the HTML source you’ll probably run into the feeds:
          • rss
          • atom
          • feed
          • json
      • Look for a syndication page on the site. It should have links to the feeds.
      • You might see the RSS feed icon or the ATOM feed icon on the page.
      • Many CMSes (Wordpress in particular) automatically put them at /feed on the site.
  • haui
    40·
    8 months ago

    Google is a fucking nightmare. I‘m not gonna cite the article but damn they employed every dirty trick in the book it seems. The more I learn about EEE the more it disgusts me. All in the name of manipulation, monopoly and money.

  • Gordon_FEnglish
    20·
    8 months ago

    They did the same with Flash with the help of adobe.