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Re:It’s Time to Get Back to RSS by andai on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:22PM (#23216471)
> actually finding the feed on each website you visit

The site should just have

  <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed for Bob's Blog" href="/rss/" />
Does that not work anymore? Or sites don't include it? I haven't used RSS in a few years.

Back when the address bar had an RSS icon in it, this is how it got the info.

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Re:It’s Time to Get Back to RSS by juliogreff on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:04AM (#23221787)
Not all sites that offer feeds actually put the appropriate link tag (things that come to mind: youtube channels, reddit, a lot of wordpress blogs, ...), which is extra annoying. It actually takes a lot of heuristics to be able to say with some sort of certainty whether a site offers a feed or not.
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