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The main criticism here doesn't really apply to any readers that apply the slightest effort in making the subscription process streamlined. Take https://kouio.
by stephen_mcd 13y ago
The main criticism here doesn't really apply to any readers that apply the slightest effort in making the subscription process streamlined.
Take https://kouio.com https://kouio.com for example (a Google Reader replacement I've built), in kouio you just enter a website's address and it'll discover the feed automagically.
- seanzieapples 13y agoI like your app so far but I input https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ and it's not able to locate an RSS feed (Just says "Loading"). I input https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss and it works.
- jerf 13y agoHN does not include the proper metadata to indicate an RSS feed. If <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Hacker News" href="http://news.ycombinator.com/rss" /> was added to the <head> of the homepage, the discovery would probably work better.
- stephen_mcd 13y agoThank you! That's definitely a bug, looking into it :-)
- stephen_mcd 13y agoHa! Well as jerf mentioned below, HN doesn't correctly provide a link reference to its RSS feed. Now that's fine in our case, as a surprisingly large number of websites fail this test, and simply have a visible link with "rss" or "atom" in either the link's text or URL. Now we pick these up, but in this case the front page of HN has an invalid link with "rss" in the text, namely this very thread itself. So normally the HN front page URL works fine, but right now it doesn't. This gives us a great chance to refine our discovery code a bit, so thank you!
- malkarouri 13y agoThat is one of the coolest bugs I came across lately.
- monksy 13y agoGoogle Reader did attempt to find the feed's address.