The Problems of RSS

https://zihan.ga/post/disadvantages-of-rss

by zccm • 4 years ago

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zccm• 4 years ago

Don't leave comments here. Leave comments at my website please.

kevincox• 4 years ago

RSS only has one page for all posts.

There are pagination and archiving standards which solve this. But it isn't widely implemented. Likely few people see this as a major issue.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5005.html

https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/#pagi...

You do still need to put the full content of posts into the feed which I can see as suboptimal. Maybe it would be nice if the feed content could be stored elsewhere and fetched as desired. However in general HTML is relatively small so it isn't a big issue to download a few entries when something changes.

there should be more interactive APIs about RSS

This one I can sympathize with. However whenever I think about it I feel that the author's blog isn't actually the best place for comments. The best place for comments are discussion sites or even private chats. I think some way to link these together more easily would be nice but I haven't found a comment proposal that I find enticing.

it should be able to be easily classified

Categories are fairly widely supported: https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/#cate...

Most of the bloggers want to see more people reading their blogs and especially visiting their websites

As much as I can understand this as a blogger. I have little sympathy. I would much rather prioritize the reading experience than the author's analytics. Getting a large following will also get traffic to your blog because people will share good content even if they got it via RSS. You can also do tricks like tracking pixels to get some idea. Maybe the current tools aren't good enough to give a good picture of RSS readers but I would not like to hurt the reading experience to improve it.

The Problems of RSS

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