There’s been some RSS talk across a couple different topics so I thought it might be helpful to have a catch-all place, and a place where people who have questions (me lol) can go to ask.
Info about creating/maintaining RSS feeds, RSS feed placement or whatever, and RSS readers etc. are all good. The disclaimer is I’ve been too busy to do anything other than repost about it, I don’t even have one of my own yet which is why I made the topic ^^;
ok first question. if I haven’t set up an rss feed yet and just tell people to go to https://sharkaeopteryx.neocities.org/rss (which right now will just show off my fantastic 404 page), if I later set up an RSS feed at that URL, will it just work without any further effort on peoples’ parts?
Or will RSS readers reject it for not being in the right format or something?
also, follow-up question, do rss urls have to be .xml (or .php etc)?
I think you can set up an index.html that works like an rss feed at that folder and it MAY work. Possibly could be more work, but you can always make the index @ https://sharkaeopteryx.neocities.org/rss house the link for your rss feed and ppl can download/get the feed that way.
Yea, you can either have a big ass rss picture that linsk to rss.xml or maybe just paste your rss text into that html. The second method im not too sure about but the first one will work. And then you just update your rss as necessary
so Quastion: how tf do i make an rss feed that automatically updates when my site does? i’m lowkey thinking i May have to use the rss feed that neocities generates when i update my site… but idk for Sure. the fact that u have 2 update an rss feed manually is what made me delete my old one haha
i may look into something with the neocities rss feed bc it automatically updates when i update my site but it’s not v descriptive (but i don’t really NEED that…)
We just made a new post and pushed it to RSS, y’all able to see it? for some reason even when i made the feed refresh I had to completely delete and re-add our RSS feed to get it to show up. i dunno if that was just Feedbro being weird or not.
I just checked it on my reader and it shows up. TEST came up b4 the mutual aid posts, but maybe thats cuz your rss items dont have a date posted pubdate on them.