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it's embarrassing to admit (i mean, I have a CS degree from a Famous School(TM) and I'm an old school unix and C programmer), and it's been a long time since I'

it's embarrassing to admit (i mean, I have a CS degree from a Famous School(TM) and I'm an old school unix and C programmer), and it's been a long time since I've tried, but I could never figure out how to get RSS working. the instructions always had terms-of-art without explanation, like syndication or something. Like, I know what syndication is in terms of newspaper publishing, but that doesn't tell me if that's something I want to turn on or not. Like I said, it's been a long time so maybe that wasn't one of the words, but it just seemed like an insular world that I wasn't a part of.

ghostpepper 5y ago
FWIW I use News Explorer for iOS/Mac (the syncing is great btw) and newsboat for Linux, and I've never been asked if I want to turn on syndication. I just add feeds and then articles from those feeds show up, and I read them. Unless you mean how to enable publishing an RSS feed for your own website? In that case I have no idea, and I wouldn't expect an old school unix/C person to know how to configure web things (speaking as one as well).