Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS

Re:Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS by onli on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @04:24PM (#12639143)

I worked on both Atom and RSS Feeds for blogging engines. Frankly, Atom had for me no real advantage. RSS is easy to generate, and it is supported properly by so many clients that Atom can be comfortably ignored. Stuff like the guid not being a guid work in practice just fine.

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Re:Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS by redwall_hp on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @05:01PM (#12639435)

To be honest, they're basically interchangeable. Most parsing libraries will handle both, and it's entirely down to preference.

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Re:Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS by firasd on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @06:20PM (#12640051)

But working on a blogging engine (producing feeds) or saying parsing libraries will handle it is just externalizing the problems with RSS to the consumers. That's where the real pain point is: understanding the content of an RSS feed, especially when thousands of feeds can have a multitude of different quirks.

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Re:Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS by narrowrail on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @05:45PM (#12639770)

From my [not extensive] research, ATOM open source libraries have better support for authenticated feeds.

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Re:Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS by talideon on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:44AM (#12642395)

The problem isn't generation, but consumption. If you're consuming feeds, Atom is significantly better than RSS because it's better specified.

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