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I agree that RSS may not have the most robust features. I doubt anyone will argue with you on that. But, regardless of whether people think RSS is "broken", telling RSS developers not to build RSS is naive. Anyone who's been working on RSS for as long as many of us have will tell you that RSS 2.0 ensures the widest compatibility between RSS readers. There are actually RSS readers that have been around for ages that don't parse Atom feeds correctly. And, going around forcing all of those RSS readers to switch to Atom is impossible. So, at best, this request should be to add Atom feeds as an option, but RSS 2.0 (at least) should still be supported. As a side note: with all due respect, the tone of your messaging (in this post and others) comes off condescending and arrogant. You would help yourself by improving the way you're asking for what you need. We're all open source developers, many working on the apps and services you're using for free, and are only trying to do our best. The least we can do when requesting new features is to try to show a little more empathy. |
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RSS is inherently broken
Stop using that and move to the proper syndication format that is actually properly defined and easy to parse. All the syndication clients support both so there is no excuse to continue to generate broken RSS feeds.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4287
"Since 2005"
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Here is a good post about Atom and RSS (by Chris)
@edhelas has concisely conveyed to me that:
There is no reason you should ever generate RSS feeds.
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