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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.

1 March at 23:15 | Wall-to-wall | Open on bne.social
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Robb Knight

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

1 March at 23:20 | Open on social.lol
James Cridland

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

2 March at 0:14 | Open on bne.social
James Cridland
Robb Knight

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

2 March at 2:54 | Open on social.lol
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.

2 March at 7:57 | Open on social.lol
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

2 March at 9:41 | Open on bne.social
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.

2 March at 9:44 | Open on bne.social
James Cridland

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

A mockup showing clearly what the RSS feed is and a description of how to add it to a feed reader
2 March at 9:51 | Open on bne.social
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