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Curiosity question, will most modern RSS-readers be able to find an RSS link on their own, or is it a good idea for me to include a link on a homepage that user
by danShumway 7y ago
Curiosity question, will most modern RSS-readers be able to find an RSS link on their own, or is it a good idea for me to include a link on a homepage that users can copy-paste?
I've never advertised any of my rss feeds, I just leave them up at <domain>/rss.xml. I was under the impression that RSS feed locations were mostly standardized, but I'm noticing that the feed location for this blog is at a different URL.
- dewey 7y agoUsually they are able to find it, I never had the problem that it couldn't be found if there was a feed URL in the source code. (Using the selfhosted version of Miniflux). It's too bad that browsers removed the RSS icon in the URL bar.
- jtbayly 7y agoYou need to advertise it in the head section of your html. Then any reader will find it.
- Deimorz 7y agoThey should be able to find it as long as you have a <link> or <a> tag with the correct attributes/values on them. See this section and the one below it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/RSS/Getting_Started/Syndicating#Adding_the_.3Clink.3E https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/RSS/Getting...
- rsscircus 7y agoAn RSS link on homepage AND a RSS Autodiscovery link in the source code is for me the best solution. RSS Autodiscovery make it discoverable by any RSS reader