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Feature request: RSS feed for news #33

Open mrnoname1000 opened 5 years ago

mrnoname1000 commented 5 years ago

Would it be possible to add an RSS feed? I like to keep up with the news, and checking the website every time is cumbersome. Edit: Should have dug further, now I see a link in an old news article. Can this be made visible somewhere that makes more sense?

paradigm commented 5 years ago

In my experience, many websites don't explicitly list RSS support, but have it if you look at their source. For example, neither "rss" nor "atom" show up in the browser-rendered https://news.ycombinator.com but if you look at its source you'll find

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="rss">

I suspect the intent here is to feed the page's URL into RSS feed readers which parse out that bit.

The Bedrock website currently follows this same convention. The browser rendered https://bedrocklinux.org does not explicitly mention rss or atom, but in its source you'll find:

<link rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml title="Bedrock Linux Feed" href=./atom.xml>

Web server logs indicate quite a lot of the traffic to the website is from RSS feed readers, so others did figure this out.

All that having been said, I'm certainly amenable to making it more accessible. Where do you have in mind that would make more sense?

mrnoname1000 commented 5 years ago

I imagine something simple like a button at the top of the news page. For example, the button at the top of Dolphin's blog.

paradigm commented 5 years ago

Seems reasonable enough. I'll look into it when I get the chance.

bobbbay commented 4 years ago

I'll also input that a podcast can use RSS feeds to publish on well-known networks such as Google Podcasts, iTunes / Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, TuneIn, etc. I know a podcast might seem a bit far off but 20 minutes a week seems definitely possible for a project this large! Would also attract some audience, though I know you aren't specifically pushing for that at the moment.

I would listen to a Bedrock Podcast, as well as read a blog. My two cents :)

paradigm commented 4 years ago

A podcast would be very cool. My gut instinct is that it's unlikely to happen any time soon, as:

That having been said, it's not impossible the R&D part of the project eventually settles, after which there are natural podcast topics like getting X feature to work across distros or highlighting how getting Y feature from some distro is useful.

bobbbay commented 4 years ago

Yeah, that I completely understand :) I wanted to mention progress reports would be interesting, but saw it was already here 😄

Anyways, I highly doubt r&d will stop for Bedrock, which is just good news 😆.

i.e. I, as well as many others, would love a progress blog. As for a podcast, time is the most valuable thing a man can spend...