Ask HN: If you have a blog, do you have an RSS feed?

[gpjt]

Reading this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42746682#42751194 made me wonder. I've seen quite a few personal pages/blogs without any obvious RSS support. Do people think it's important enough to implement these days?

[jedimastert]

I do! Admittedly I don't write enough on the blog, but it does have an RSS and Atom feed.

I use Jekyll, and it was about the same amount of effort as making a age that lists out all the entries in HTML. For me it was mostly just for funsies, but I do know it gets pretty regular traffic

[DamonHD]

I implement multiple RSS (and Atom) feeds for different slices of my (EOU) site, eg an RSS feed for the podcast, and a 'lite' RSS feed without music/sonifications for Spotify.

[Brajeshwar]

Yes. I have a blog with an RSS Feed since 2002. :-)

[gpjt → Brajeshwar]

Wow, I thought mine was old! But it's only 19 years this year :-)

[theandrewbailey]

Yes. I read the spec and implemented them on mine. Later, I used that as part of a backup-restore/import-export function.

https://github.com/theandrewbailey/gram

https://theandrewbailey.com/

[kevincox]

> without any obvious RSS support

I'm curious if you checked for an auto-discovery link. These are very often present even if the site doesn't have a visible indicator of the feed.

[gpjt → kevincox]

I use Newsblur and if there's nothing obvious, I try pasting the blog URL in there -- I believe it checks for alternate meta tags, and perhaps its own database?

[gpjt]

2. I have a blog and it might have RSS due to the framework but I've never checked.

[gpjt]

1. I have a blog and I know it has RSS

[gpjt]

3. I have a blog with no RSS