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> Its innocence doomed it in a very poetic way. And yet, virtually every single site on the internet has an RSS or ATOM feed. I think I've come across a whoppi
by lj3 10y ago
> Its innocence doomed it in a very poetic way.
And yet, virtually every single site on the internet has an RSS or ATOM feed. I think I've come across a whopping 5 that don't and those are mostly tech guys who made their own blog system and didn't bother with the rss feed because, as everybody knows, rss is dead.
- toyg 10y agoMost of those are auto-generated feeds by the usual-suspect CMSs. In most cases, nobody is actually looking at what those feeds look like, with terrible results. Outside the niche of news providers, nobody cares. Besides, does Facebook have RSS feeds? Does Twitter have RSS feeds? That's basically half the web right there, these days.
- lj3 10y ago> In most cases, nobody is actually looking at what those feeds look like, with terrible results. The results look fine to me. It's pretty rare to find one that's completely mangled. For the most part, even embedded videos work. The news providers are the bigger pain in the ass, since they like to truncate content and insert ads. > Besides, does Facebook have RSS feeds? Facebook doesn't, which isn't a huge loss. Nothing of consequence gets posted to Facebook, at least not for me. I could see where that would be a pain point for some people. > Does Twitter have RSS feeds? There are several services that provide twitter feeds. I use twitrss.me.
- gdwatson 10y agoTwitter used to have RSS feeds, and then they took them away as they made their content more siloed.
- daurnimator 10y ago> Besides, does Facebook have RSS feeds? Yes, for notifications: https://www.facebook.com/help/212445198787494/ https://www.facebook.com/help/212445198787494/ Other feeds used to be available too but I can't seem to get them to work. > Does Twitter have RSS feeds? It used to, but is disappeared as they were locking down their apis.
- donatj 10y agoI am still upset about Twitter removing the RSS feeds. It made it so easy to programmatically parse Twitter data. Their API is a sorry replacement.
- Jaruzel 10y agoI explicitly try to use Facebook without visiting Facebook, and the notifications RSS feed is the only feed that still works (they retired all the others). So without cranking your own oAuth based app, or scraping the HTML, it's all you've got. To make matters worse, the feed itself seems to be delayed on some sort of random variable, making it useless for timely alerts.
- spdustin 10y agoBing's RSS feed for news results is broken; there is a bare ampersand in the namespace declaration for search results' RSS feeds rather than an & entity.
- Animats 10y agoBoth once had RSS feeds, and discontinued them. The RSS feeds didn't have ads.
- cowholio4 10y agoFacebook also has RSS feeds for your 'Facebook Notes'
- geomark 10y agoI wish that was true. I maintain a site for a manufacturers representative company. We want to include news from the manufacturers but few of them provide a feed. For a while I ran a "feed" created by scraping their news pages. Of course we got burned when they changed the page format.
- thaumasiotes 10y agoThe sinfest RSS feed is technically still there, but it's no longer updated which kind of defeats the purpose.
- Bromskloss 10y agoAbout that, which is better, RSS or Atom?
- icebraining 10y agoAtom, in my opinion; it cleaned up some problems with RSS. http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared
- toyg 10y agoAtom is the only choice, these days. Being a newer spec, it's cleaner and stricter on what should go where. There was some debate back then on compatibility grounds but that problem has long disappeared and any decent feed parser will understand Atom just fine.