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I admit I'm mostly amused/fascinated by the list at the end of the feed types the blog supports, ranked by popularity. Gopher being more popular than Atom is a
by chipotle_coyote 7y ago
I admit I'm mostly amused/fascinated by the list at the end of the feed types the blog supports, ranked by popularity. Gopher being more popular than Atom is a quirk specific to this blog -- it's not like many other sites these days support it, right? -- but it's the quite new JSONFeed being at top that was most surprising. Possibly also a quirk specific to this blog, but I'm not as sure of that as I am about Gopher.
- WorldMaker 7y agoMy impression is that because it is the same RSS discovery process that finds both traditional RSS, Atom, and JSONFeed, knowing which one your Reader application favors and/or is using is sometimes difficult. I'd off-hand heard that many of the big, strongest web-based Readers had started favoring JSONFeed, but this is the first evidence I've seen of it. It's also why I assume Atom is so low on the list, in that those same readers likely would prefer Atom to RSS, but have switched to JSONFeed today, and RSS has the long tail of longevity and legacy reading software. It could also just be that since it is apparently request count (rather than unique origin or such) that possibly JSONFeed tools simply request it more often than the others.