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Re: Discovery A pet peeve of mine, is where some enterprising web developer has either built a theme, or hacked an existing one and removed or not added the <l

Re: Discovery A pet peeve of mine, is where some enterprising web developer has either built a theme, or hacked an existing one and removed or not added the <link> tag for the RSS feed, when the site engine in question DOES have a working RSS feed. You see this a lot on customised WordPress sites. I end up having to try all variants of feed URLs I can think of until I find the feed. Surprisingly, most non-bespoke site engines still have working feeds, so the hit rate is quite high. I also miss the days of browsers auto-extracting the <link> tag and showing an RSS icon when a feed is found.

benrapscallion 4y ago
If it’s Wordpress based, the feed is usually found by adding /feed and if it is a Tumblr website, by appending /rss
- kevincox 4y ago
  I've yet to see a Tumblr site that didn't have working autodiscovery. But maybe I just haven't seen a custom-enough theme yet.
- mdp2021 4y ago
  Possibilities include: .../rss , .../rss.xml , .../.rss , .../rss_full.xml , .../feed , .../rss-feed , .../feed/all/ , .../MySection.xml , .../MySection.atom , feedserver.example.com/section/index ...
leephillips 4y ago
Vivaldi does the auto-extracting, and displays the RSS icon. You can click on it to subscribe. Vivaldi’s built-in feed reader is a bit clunky, but it works.
- stereoradonc 4y ago
  Yay for another vivaldi user!
  - leephillips 4y ago
    It’s full of weird bugs, and not too snappy, but it’s the only highly configurable Chrome-based browser.
Zak 4y ago
I'm disappointed browsers removed that functionality, but extensions solve the problem. I've been using Feedbro, which is also a reader, but there are multiple options.