RSS feed seems incorrect

[dianavaneijk]

Describe the bug
I am using your RSS feed https://dev.to/feed/itnext in one of my applications. From december 2021 i started to get errors from my application that the RSS feed is incorrect.

To Reproduce

Open the RSS feed in a browser and it looks not quite the same as other feeds.

1. Open https://dev.to/feed/itnext in browser and compare to for instance this RSS feed https://itnext.io/feed.
2. The structure is not correct

Another way to validate is using the feed validator : https://validator.w3.org/feed/.
Fill in the faulty feed and it replies the feed is not valid. Fill in an example of a correct feed and it will correctly validate.

Expected behavior
I expect the feed to be well constructed.

Please repair the feed so i can use it again in my application.

Kind regards,

Diana van Eijk

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[rpalo]

I'd like to suggest some fixes to address the errors the feed validator raised. I checked an author feed, but I could go through all the feed types just to make sure I don't miss anything. For example here are the issues raised by the author feed:

1. <channel> tag doesn't have an <author> child in the spec.
2. <author> tags should be an email address and name combo in an approved format
3. The feed <image> subitem <title> is recommended to have the same text as the channel's <title> element
4. Article descriptions shouldn't contain relative links, and the headers usually have relative anchor links attached to them.
5. The feed needs an <atom:link rel="self"> tag (more info

Additionally, looks like there are a few other schema links, etc. that would make it perform a little bit better in the browser and in readers (RSS Best Practice Recommendations).

Let me know if this seems like an OK pull request to open!

[citizen428]

@rpalo Thanks a lot, I'll assign you the issue!