Atom is a great feed format with a rock-solid spec. I wouldn't call it a weird mashup for WordPress to use atom:link in their RSS feeds. It does things no RSS

Atom is a great feed format with a rock-solid spec. I wouldn't call it a weird mashup for WordPress to use atom:link in their RSS feeds. It does things no RSS element can do, such as allow a feed to identify its own URL. For those who don't know, every WordPress site with an RSS feed also has an Atom feed available by adding "/atom" to the end of the RSS feed URL, such as this: RSS feed: https://wordpress.com/blog/feed/ https://wordpress.com/blog/feed/ Atom feed: https://wordpress.com/blog/feed/atom/ https://wordpress.com/blog/feed/atom/