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Robb Knight

⭐ RsS iS dEaD LOL rss-is-dead.lol/

"Explore RSS feeds in your network."

Glorious. Pop your Mastodon username in, get a big list of everyone's feeds. Excellent use of the .lol TLD as well.

📌 rknight.me/links/rss-is-dead-l

27 comments
V.H. Belvadi

@robb Interesting, although it seems to fail to recognise followers?

Chris M., Internet Nobody

@robb this is literally everything I was asking for a couple of weeks back 🤩

Robb Knight

@chrisplusplus Oh yeah we spoke about this didn’t we? Amazing.

Bob Monsour

@robb @kev It definitely is! Pinging @paulcuth pretty please generate an OPML file of the results.

Sara Joy :happy_pepper:

@bobmonsour @robb @kev @paulcuth

I feed it in my fingers, I feed it in my toes...
RSS is all around me, the OPML grows!

(Not in the style of Wet Wet Wet but of Bill Nighy's character in Love Actually because that's really a few syllables too many to crowbar in there)

Kev Quirk

@sarajw @bobmonsour @robb @paulcuth 😂😂😂 I’m gonna be singing that all day now!

Jeff Sikes

@robb Ooh moar rss! Love it. Thanks! It's fun to see how people have separated out their feed categories, too.

Sara Joy :happy_pepper:

@robb oh wow. Super cool!

When I have some free time I'll temporarily unprivate my following list and slurp up a bunch of feeds, thank you!

James Cridland

@robb This appears to make copies of everyone’s RSS feed and adds branding on it. This is not cool. I don’t want someone else “owning” my RSS feed.

(It’s also going to quickly bankrupt this guy, because RSS uses astonishing amounts of bandwidth and requests).

Disappointing because the product seems quite nice.

Robb Knight

@james I'm not seeing any branding on the preview pages when I look at them?

James Cridland

@robb It proxies the feeds and adds branding to the titles.

Robb Knight

@james oh that’s not okay at all. I’ll reach out to the creator.

Robb Knight

@james Is this NetNewsWire by any chance? I've just identified that this is a NNW issue where it's not picking up the feed as defined in the HTML like it should. I'm chatting with the developer now to work out how to get around it.

James Cridland

@robb @paulcuth

rss-is-dead.lol/user?profileUr shows a number of pages with an RSS icon and a RSS feed title.

In spite of being marked with the RSS icon, they're not RSS feeds (that's my misunderstanding, though confusing UX) - they're HTML pages like this rss-is-dead.lol/feed/?url=http

When you subscribe that URL to NetNewsWire it uses that as the subscribed feed URL.

When you subscribe that URL to Inoreader, it find the correct feed from the LINK REL.

Suggestions...

@robb @paulcuth

rss-is-dead.lol/user?profileUr shows a number of pages with an RSS icon and a RSS feed title.

In spite of being marked with the RSS icon, they're not RSS feeds (that's my misunderstanding, though confusing UX) - they're HTML pages like this rss-is-dead.lol/feed/?url=http

James Cridland

@robb @paulcuth Suggestions are:

1. The RSS icon should always be directly linked to an RSS feed.

2. The /feed/ URL should have the feed URL in a text box with a "copy" button next to it, to make the call to action really clear (and to not confuse).

3. Of course, keep the LINK REL in there; that's good too - but there's apparently no guarantee it will work; and more importantly, the naked RSS feed is not visible anywhere in this interface.

James Cridland

@robb @paulcuth This is ugly, but this would be ideal.

DHeadshot's Alt

@robb
Seems to just scrape fediverse profiles?

Robb Knight

@ddlyh It also checks the websites listed in people’s profiles for RSS feeds.

Alex Standiford

@robb I love the heading font on this site. Pretty cool that they stretched the font and it still looks that good.

nebulossify

@robb do you have an explainer of how this works anywhere? I was looking for one on your site.

Roland Häder
@robb I would suggest adding a few hashtags to it so it can be easier found: #RSS #ATOM #feed
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