It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

Re:It’s Time to Get Back to RSS by baby on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:50PM (#23215349)

As someone who is a heavy user of RSS feeds (check my cryptography RSS feed[1]) and has had to implement RSS feeds for my websites:

1. we need to move away from XML. JSON would be a much better modern candidate.

2. we need better support in all web-first programming languages, and possibly in web frameworks.

3. we need to have a stricter set of rules on how to use HTML5 tags like articles, sections, and such. An RSS feed shouldn't have to be manually produced when a crawler should recognize modern HTML5 tag and produce one on its own.

[1]: https://github.com/mimoo/crypto_blogs

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Re:It’s Time to Get Back to RSS by j-f1 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @05:17PM (#23215565)

For #1, check out JSON Feed (https://jsonfeed.org/). It’s at least supported by Feedly, and it’s probably supported elsewhere too.

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Re:It’s Time to Get Back to RSS by juliogreff on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:18AM (#23221939)

I wonder how many websites publish JSON feeds though. I don't recall ever coming across one, or maybe have I just not been paying enough attention?

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