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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...

2 March at 9:41 | Wall-to-wall | Open on bne.social
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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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