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So it is just alternate link meta then a bunch of heuristics for well known websites? IMHO, everyone should just do the alternate link meta and save everyone el
by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
So it is just alternate link meta then a bunch of heuristics for well known websites? IMHO, everyone should just do the alternate link meta and save everyone else the trouble. Once you made a special rule for someone big, you are just encourage them continue to be sloppy.
- thirdplace_ 4y agoYou are mostly right. There is some additional value provided: With known feed urls e.g. https://www.meetup.com/%s/events/rss/ https://www.meetup.com/%s/events/rss/ we can save the network call to meetup.com and produce the feed url immediately. This is also an argument for making a browser addon or at least some client code that can produce it. Discovered feed urls are cached which saves the direct network call to a possibly slow site. The service produces third-party feeds for websites that don't have it e.g. https://twitter.com/elonmusk https://twitter.com/elonmusk => https://nitter.net/elonmusk/rss https://nitter.net/elonmusk/rss
- derekzhouzhen 4y agoFYI, I have a lint tool to check the consistency between the blog homepage / blog posts to the blog feed. The alternate link is the first step. https://roastidio.us/lint https://roastidio.us/lint