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Well, this seems pretty useful. Certainly worked well when I tested it on the Web Tiger Team site. However, I do wonder whether the RSS feed aspect might be li
by CM30 9y ago
Well, this seems pretty useful. Certainly worked well when I tested it on the Web Tiger Team site.
However, I do wonder whether the RSS feed aspect might be limiting here. I mean, how often do people manually generate an RSS feed on a static website?
I'd say the answer is 'pretty much never'. They're annoying to create/edit by hand or with a static site builder, and hence they're usually quite rare on the types of websites this tool was made for.
So while I think the widget works well when used properly, I feel like the vast majority of static sites won't be able to use it simply because they don't have an RSS feed.
- lucideer 9y agoIt should be very easy to automate RSS feed generation with any consistently laid out static site (even if it's hand written). If you're using a SSG (I presume most are), there's things like jekyll-feed[0] [0] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed
- AndrewStephens 9y agoGenerating the annoying-to-edit support files is the whole point of a static site generator, and many do generate RSS, Atom, and site maps [0]. Repurposing RSS in this way is clever, but a better solution would be to modify the static site generator to generate a single file with the entire sites content that the javascript could stream and search in one hit. Of course, once a site reaches a certain size, client side solutions become impractical. [0] https://sheep.horse/rss.xml https://sheep.horse/rss.xml for example
- binocarlos 9y agodepends if you are using a static site builder or not - for example hugo will easily automatically create RSS of your content with very little config.