It's Time for an RSS Revival

Re:It's Time for an RSS Revival by anonymousiam on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:46AM (#34107846)

Does anybody know why Randall Munroe (XKCD) has made a mockery of RSS on his site? I thought his joke was funny at first, but he has left it there and now the RSS feed from his site is worse than useless. Here's the content I get from his RSS feed on both my Android phone and my iPad:

"xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS at a screen resolution of 1024x1. Please enable your ad blockers, disable high-heat drying, and remove your device from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode. For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing."

This behavior began several months ago. Previously I could access his content on the same devices.

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Re:It's Time for an RSS Revival by ihuman on Friday December 23, 2022 @12:18PM (#34108284)

Is it still doing that? Whenever I tap the "RSS FEED" link, Safari asks to open my RSS feed. Even when I uninstall my RSS app, Safari asks to look up feed readers in the app store. I can't find anything like that quote when I view the feed's source on desktop.

Edit: Maybe that was a bug? I see that exact same quote in a tiny font at the bottom of every page.

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Re:It's Time for an RSS Revival by tshell on Friday December 23, 2022 @12:36PM (#34108467)

I'm really not sure what mean. You can literally take a look at the feed and see the most recent 4 entries: https://xkcd.com/atom.xml

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Re:It's Time for an RSS Revival by Group_B on Friday December 23, 2022 @12:08PM (#34108156)

lmao

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Re:It's Time for an RSS Revival by themadturk on Friday December 23, 2022 @03:35PM (#34110311)

Works fine for me in NetNewsWire. I have never seen this behavior.

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