I love #RSS. My RSS feed reader is the page I visit most on web, I think. So it's very frustrating when folks update their site, but don't redirect their RSS feed - please remember to do it, people. https://kevquirk.com/dont-change-your-rss-url
@kev oh great point! When migrating from Blogger to 11ty recently I took care to keep page URLs alive, but the feed url I have forgotten to verify. I’ll have to update that and add to my migration steps checklist https://sheetsj.com/blog/migrating-blogger-to-eleventy/
@Wivik haha yeah, but at least you’re still subscribed. I’d rather have to “mark all as read” instead of go hunting for the new URL, or (even worse) miss the content entirely.
@kev I’ve been looking at different blogging platforms lately and one of the things I’ve been trying to to do is make sure my rss feed doesn’t break. I also find that mildly annoying.
I also wonder if a change like moving to a new platform confuses some feed readers and marks everything as unread.
I have a bunch of feeds as well, and I’ll bet at least once a month or so I’ll get one site that suddenly has 200 unread posts.
@sudoedit It does. Every time I’ve changed platform subscribers contact me asking what platform I’ve changed to this time. They know before they get a dump of unread posts. :-)
Better that than potentially missing content though, I think.
@kev I made the mistake of always using the default feed of my current blogging tool, then redirecting the old one to /that/. I should've done what you suggest and just redirect to the original from day one. It's a mess.
@jbaty You could have all the others redirect to /feed, then redirect /feed to whatever your feed URL is now. Only 2 redirects won’t impact performance.
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