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Yeah, just looking at my RSS list, most of them I discovered from just checking the usual /rss endpoints that are completely unadvertised on the website where y
by hombre_fatal 6y ago
Yeah, just looking at my RSS list, most of them I discovered from just checking the usual /rss endpoints that are completely unadvertised on the website where you see in the XML it's generated by Wordrpress.
I have no doubt that it's the only reason most feeds exist.
Any RSS reader really needs to be able to crawl websites to create its own feed as only consuming websites that support RSS is a pretty weak prospect.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoNone of the RSS that I follow are from blogs, however. Most of it is from webcomics that I follow, YouTube channels, and media aggregator websites that inform me whenever a new episode is out of a television series I follow. All of these websites surely added it themselves deliberately.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoMost news sites I checked on my RSS reader use Wordpress or another PHP framework like Drupal. Example of what I'm talking about where I think the RSS feed isn't necessarily deliberate or perhaps it's vestigial: - [Wordpress] https://maldita.es/ https://maldita.es/ (https://maldita.es/feed/ https://maldita.es/feed/) - [Drupal] https://vanguardia.com.mx/ https://vanguardia.com.mx/ (https://vanguardia.com.mx/rss.xml https://vanguardia.com.mx/rss.xml) My point isn't that everyone is incompetent and doesn't even mean to host RSS feeds but rather I'd wager that early turnkey CMS were the reason we have RSS. I'm rather thankful.