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Yes, styled RSS feeds don't provide any value when consumed by RSS readers. But when I visit a blog and click an RSS feed link for the first time, it's nice to
by darekkay 3y ago
Yes, styled RSS feeds don't provide any value when consumed by RSS readers. But when I visit a blog and click an RSS feed link for the first time, it's nice to have a short preview of the existing posts without having to parse XML visually. The main benefit I see is however to educate people who don't know what RSS is. Imagine a person clicks "RSS feed" and all they see is some strange-looking file. On my feed [0], there is a big banner with a short explanation and a link to learn more about the technology.
[0] https://darekkay.com/atom.xml https://darekkay.com/atom.xml
- manuelmoreale 3y agoYeah that's probably useful. Btw your recent blog posts are sorted in a weird order according to the dates. Also, and not sure why this is happening, I have the Reeder extension installed on safari and it usually automatically prompts me to open an rss link in the app but it doesn't happen in your case. I can't even use the button in the browser toolbar to open the feed in the app directly. The only way for me to add it is to manually copy paste the url.
- darekkay 3y agoThe posts are sorted by date, newest being at the top. I haven't posted much in 2022 and 2023, so maybe "Jun → Dec → Mar → Dec" looks confusing if you miss the according year? Regarding Reeder, I've included the feed in the markup, so I'm not sure what is going on. I will definitely have a look, thanks for the finding!
- manuelmoreale 3y agoAh I was confused because you have the last modified date displayed and those are all over the place.
- darekkay 3y agoOh, you mean in the feed preview. Yeah, they're sorted by publish date but I only display the last update date. I see that it's quite confusing, I'll fix that. Thanks!