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Nice writeup. I share a lot of these gripes, as someone who's also on the publishing side: it continues to surprise me how many people actually do read my blog
by woodruffw 4y ago
Nice writeup. I share a lot of these gripes, as someone who's also on the publishing side: it continues to surprise me how many people actually do read my blog via RSS (based on statistics passed back through user agents), given how poor the discovery and client experience is.
- schemescape 4y agoHow are you tracking RSS reads? HTTP logs?
- woodruffw 4y agoYep, HTTP logs: most standalone RSS clients have a distinct user agent, and most of the web-based ones send a UA containing the total subscriber count. For example, here's a log from today: 8.29.198.27 - - [01/Jan/2023:00:04:42 -0500] "GET /feed.xml HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "-" "Feedly/1.0 (+http://www.feedly.com/fetcher.html; 99 subscribers; like FeedFetcher-Google)" Interestingly, a few of the big ones (Feedly, Feedbin) have multiple subscriber counts for me. I'm not sure why that is.