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Don't use "RSS" to describe Atom feeds #153

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ad-si opened this issue Oct 1, 2019 · 3 comments 路 Fixed by #154
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Don't use "RSS" to describe Atom feeds #153

ad-si opened this issue Oct 1, 2019 · 3 comments 路 Fixed by #154

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@ad-si
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ad-si commented Oct 1, 2019

Sorry, but I'm a little pedantic about such things 馃槄. It's an Atom feed and not a RSS feed, so it should be named accordingly 馃槈.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS#RSS_compared_with_Atom

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j0k3r commented Oct 1, 2019

Yeah I know. I asked that question to myself few times and kept RSS because I find it more obvious to use than Atom.

I found Get new release in your RSS! more obvious than Get new release in your Atom!, don't you?

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ad-si commented Oct 1, 2019

Yeah I know what you mean. RSS has kind of become an eponym for feed reading APIs. I just call it "Atom news feed" nowadays. Makes it obvious and correct. E.g.
You can grab your RSS feed link and add it to your favorite RSS reader. Every new release will show up in it!
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You can grab your Atom news feed link and add it to your favorite feed reader. Every new release will show up in it!

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ad-si commented Oct 1, 2019

If it's more about the general concept I would write Get new release in your news feed! or Get new release in your feed reader!

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