Learn how one of the biggest tech companies played a major role in the reason many people stopped using RSS feeds
  • onoira [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    How would this work? Do websites with rss feeds normally publish the url to that feed in some standard place?

    feeds are usually advertised in the page header as below, with type set to either application/rss+xml or application/atom+xml.

    <head>
  <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Example Feed" href="https://example.com/feed/" />
</head>

    Are there any third party extensions that do it?

    i don’t know about chrom[e|ium], but i use Awesome RSS for firefox.

    • Mikelius@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      How did I not know websites did this. Here I was always trying to guess the urls a few times before giving up lol. Today I learned…

      Thanks for the extension suggestion too!

      • kevincox@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Most readers will also do this auto-discovery for you. So typically you can just paste the page or article URL and it will find the feed.

        Of course the extension is nicer because you don’t need to guess and check, you get a quick indicator if there is a feed or not.

        Personally I use Want My RSS because I like the preview which then lets me know if it is a full-text feed or just summaries. This is also Firefox only. But extensions for other browsers are available.