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Re: Offering Multiple Feed Formats

+1 adding this to the profile

--- In rss-board@yahoogroups.com, "rcade" <cadenhead@...> wrote:
>
> Nat Lanza recently wrote on Twitter, "Dear weblog authors: I pretty
> much never want to have to figure out *which* of your feeds to
> subscribe to. Pick a format and stick with it."
>
> http://twitter.com/nlanza/statuses/776809841
>
> I have the same thought every time I find a site that offers a choice
> of its feed in RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 or Atom formats. This approach
> actively deters subscribers, because most web users have no idea how
> to make this choice and it scares them off.
>
> Should the RSS Advisory Board recommend that feed publishers offer
> their feeds in one format only, whether they choose Atom, RSS 1.0 or
> RSS 2.0 as that format?
>





Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:27 pm

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Nat Lanza recently wrote on Twitter, "Dear weblog authors: I pretty much never want to have to figure out *which* of your feeds to subscribe to. Pick a format...
rcade
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Mar 27, 2008
2:25 pm

+1 adding this to the profile...
Randy Morin
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Mar 27, 2008
2:28 pm

... Would you support a resolution as well, like the ones we've done endorsing the common feed icon and Feed Validator?...
rcade
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Mar 29, 2008
1:49 pm

... I believe it's hard to talk about a "resolution" in this situation. I would talk about suggestions instead. The suggestion I usually provide is the...
Simone Carletti
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Mar 29, 2008
2:12 pm

... +1 There was an excellent article I read on 2004 about choosing a single feed flavor instead of duplicating the same content across multiple feeds. I tried...
Simone Carletti
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Mar 27, 2008
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