@baldur I think it also has a lot to do with the difference between the ease of setting up a basic blogging website and how difficult it is to generate an RSS feed. We need tools which make this easier to set up!
@tchauhan Pretty much every blogging system does this out of the box. Even static site builders often have a "blog" template that includes it. Those that don't have relatively straightforward plugins you can use.
Most of the time when a feed is missing that's either because the dev did something that accidentally disabled it or because they've made the site in a react framework of some kind.
Or the entire thing is completely client-rendered, which means it's invisible to server-based tools
@baldur I see. I only have experience with react (gatsby) and while they do have a plugin for it, it was quite difficult to understand how it works.
All this, from the perspective of a weekend hobbyist webdev trying to put together a 'code once, maintain forever' personal website. I'm still struggling with rendering the maths like I'd like to 😁
@baldur but too often I have to inspect source to find the URL...not just view source but inspect so I can see the <snark>glorious and resplendent JS rendering of HTML</snark>
@baldur A lot has been said about the supposed decline in RSS/Atom feeds but I would argue that, because WordPress produces RSS and Atom by default, there have never been as many feeds available as there are today. Often even without the site owner knowing about them.
@LeonardoDiOttio oh agree completely. There was a period when feed support became less common but I think it’s rebounded nicely. The exceptions these days seem to be mostly hand rolled websites, often using a React framework of some sort.
Add comment