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If you want to host a blog or a podcast on your own site, RSS is the only way anyone can subscribe as far as I know. Could do newsletter, I suppose.
by rendall 5y ago
If you want to host a blog or a podcast on your own site, RSS is the only way anyone can subscribe as far as I know. Could do newsletter, I suppose.
- woodruffw 5y agoYeah, I provide an Atom feed for my blog. It has about ~100 subscribers across a few different RSS subscription services, and I get a few hundred independent RSS client requests a week. Don't get me wrong: it all works really well, and I like providing it! But it's a very small fraction of my overall traffic, and other bloggers I've spoken to have indicated the same.
- rendall 5y agoHow do you tell, technically speaking, that someone is subscribed to your feed? Is it logging requests of the RSS feed url somehow? Doesnt Feedly, for one, aggregate RSS subscriptions for all of its users? If I were subscribed to your blog through Feedly, would you see me as an individual subscriber, or all of your Feedly subscribers as one subscriber? If so, I imagine this would deflate your numbers.
- woodruffw 5y agoFeedly and a few other services include the subscriber count in the user agent they send to my Atom feed. For example, here's the UA that Feedly sent me a few hours ago: Feedly/1.0 (+http://www.feedly.com/fetcher.html; 81 subscribers; like FeedFetcher-Google)