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> Q: Does Daft Social support RSS?

> A: Yes, just add an username to https://daftsocial.com/rss?feed= to get the RSS feed.

This could really benefit from auto-discovery. Asking users to find the FAQ then construct a URL is not a very effective measure.

The auto-discovery TL;DR is if you put a link tag like the following onto a user's pages then you can subscribe to the feed just by putting any of their articles into your feed reader. This may also help SEO as Google and other search engines will discover and watch the feed.

    <link rel=alternate title="{username}" type=application/atom+xml href="/rss/?feed={username}">
I wrote a bit more detail about auto-discovery here: https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/#disc...


I'm pretty sure that this is intentional. The site's called Daft Social for a reason. There isn't even a link back to the homepage from a given user page and there's no way to find users unless they post their profile link somewhere. Maybe that philosophy will change, but personally I really like just how brutally minimalist the site is. The site was created by Pascal Deville, who's also behind https://brutalistwebsites.com/


Great, just implemented auto discovery links into the userpages. Go check out: e.g. https://daftsocial.com/daftsocial/


Nice, works perfectly. If I put that URL into my reader it now finds the feed automatically.




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