---------------------------------------- re: RSS April 29th, 2021 ---------------------------------------- sloum just wrote about RSS [0] wondering what happend to it and why nobody links to their feeds anymore. It's a good question. I have an RSS feed on my blog and my labs blog, but I don't have a link in the webpage to them. The <link rel='alternate' is in there. (TXT) [0] sloum - RSS I do publish the feed links on cosmic, but that's sort of a byproduct of doing it on gopher where there's no link element to do it behind the scenes. So why don't I link to them on more sites? I think it's partially habit. Browsers just used to expose RSS feeds and subscription buttons so naturally in the browser interface I got used to it. When they stopped that I didn't retroactively promote it on my pages. Now that I'm thinking about it actively, that's pretty stupid. I'm going to spend some time to add feed links back onto my pages soon. The attack on RSS/Atom has been ongoing and should be fought on all levels including individual action. Google Reader shutting down and the major browsers removing feed reading were arguably the biggest blows to the standard, but the efforts haven't won out yet. Podcasts have a stronghold still and there are still plenty of readers out there. I'll do my part. If you want my blog & labs feed, here they are to copy/paste: https://blog.tomasino.org/index.xml https://labs.tomasino.org/index.xml Oh, and this gopher phlog has a feed at: gopher://gopher.black/0/rss.xml which you can reach via proxy or by piping it through curl if your rss reader can't do gopher.