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Re:Ask HN: How to promote RSS subscriptions in 2022? on Saturday June 11, 2022 @02:38AM (#31702464)
To recover the ability - in Firefox - to detect and subscribe to RSS feed in your online RSS reader, consider installing the Want My RSS extension https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/want-my-rss/
Re:Ask HN: How can I create an RSS feed for any website/url? on Thursday December 19, 2019 @03:13AM (#21832981)
If ever you read french, here is my tuto on Feed43 https://rsscircus.com/transformer-une-page-dactualites-en-fi...
Re:Ask HN: How can I create an RSS feed for any website/url? on Thursday December 19, 2019 @01:52AM (#21832629)
https://feed43.com/ : a bit technical but the free version is sufficient for most sites

All other solutions are quite limited in their free version (5 news per day and feed deleted if nothing happens during 1 week)... and quite expensive in their paid version. FetchRSS Feedity Feed Creator

This last one have a inexpensive "to host" version.

Re:Please Add RSS Support to Your Site on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:50AM (#20817147)
Want My RSS is also a pretty good Firefox extension to detect, display and subscribe to RSS feeds https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/want-my-rss/
Re:Please Add RSS Support to Your Site on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:46AM (#20817130)
An RSS link on homepage AND a RSS Autodiscovery link in the source code is for me the best solution. RSS Autodiscovery make it discoverable by any RSS reader
Re:Please Add RSS Support to Your Site on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:42AM (#20817105)
Looking at the blogroll he's talking aboit, I counted : 9 blogs with RSS Autodiscovery + link pointing to the RSS feed 20 blogs with RSS Autodiscovery only 3 blogs with link to the RSS feed 4 blogs with nothing (including it's own blog)

RSS link+autodiscovery would be so cool on every blog!

Re:RSS Is Better Than Twitter on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @08:58AM (#19553523)
When you use the Wappalyzer browser extension (https://www.wappalyzer.com/download for Firefox, Chrome, Brave) you can detect the platform (CMS) used.

WordPress? Add /feed/ For more tips: go to https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-feeds/

Drupal? Try rss.xml ?feed=rss /feed/

Joomla? You can try ?format=feed&type=rss or /itemlist/?format=feed

Blogger? Add /feeds/posts/default

*Spip ? Try /spip.php?page=backend

Re:RSS Is Better Than Twitter on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:11AM (#19552303)
There's plenty of really good solutions around : 1. Online: Inoreader, Feedly, Newsblur Newsbin, The Old Reader, Feeder... 2. Browser extension: the great Feedbro 3. Desktop: Liferea (Linux), QuiteRSS (Windows), Caffeinated, Readki, Reeder (MacOS) For RSSOwl and RSS Bandit (Windows), there's nothing new for years/ The great FeedDemon (Windows) stopped it's dev years ago. 3. Self-hosted: Tiny Tiny RSS, Fever, Leed, Selfoss
Re:RSS Is Better Than Twitter on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:01AM (#19552250)
Totally agree! Subtome was a great project but it lack updates. I talked weeks ago with @julien51, it's creator, and he told me that it didn't have time maintaining it but he would integer contributions.
Re:RSS Is Better Than Twitter on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @04:58AM (#19552232)
Sorry to split hairs here but RSS is not a protocol but a syndication format: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Atom is also a format but have proposed a publication protocol : https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023
Re:RSS Is Better Than Twitter on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @04:51AM (#19552198)
I discuss it with one dev contributor of Mozilla and they say that they didn't want to loose time maintaining Live Bookmarks. And the Live Bookmarks was underused. RSS is no more a prioritary subject. The problem is that they don't only suppress Live Bookmarks, they suppress all the ability to manage (I mean detect and display) RSS feeds... and that's terrible!
Re:RSS Is Better Than Twitter on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @04:46AM (#19552173)
Awesome RSS is a great extension, and is compatible again with Firefox 64+ and now adds direct subscription feature to Feedly, Inoreader, NextCloud Reader and even Tiny Tiny RSS (or universal feed display. https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/

Another great new extension is Want My RSS because it's compatible with 10 RSS readers for direct subscribtion (you can add your own when you have a self-hosted reader for example). Feed detection and feed display is also great! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/want-my-rss/