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RSS onboarding is a struggle for new users. RSS, unlike commercial products, lacks a "front page" to explain the benefits and how to get started. Two things th
by genmon 6y ago
RSS onboarding is a struggle for new users. RSS, unlike commercial products, lacks a "front page" to explain the benefits and how to get started.
Two things that can help:
1. Have a prettified RSS feed that tells new users what it is, rather than showing raw XML. For example here's mine: http://interconnected.org/home/feed http://interconnected.org/home/feed
2. (plug) Link to https://aboutfeeds.com https://aboutfeeds.com which is a one-pager RSS explainer site, providing links to newsreaders and simple instructions on how to subscribe.
- account42 6y agoThis is really cool, will have to add that to all the feeds I host. Too bad browers can't display RSS feeds themselves anymore without manually adding an XML stylesheet - Firefox used to be able to do that.
- swilliamsio 6y agoThat's awesome. How did you do that?
- pinjasaur 6y agoI wondered the same thing. Turns out, there's a whole language for XML stylesheets: XSLT[1]. The stylesheet used to style that page is http://interconnected.org/home/static/styles/pretty-feed-v2.xsl http://interconnected.org/home/static/styles/pretty-feed-v2.... (will probably want to view source). [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XSLT https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XSLT