The "return" of RSS!

[adrian]

Not that RSS ever actually died for us dev types, but it did for regular users.

I don't want to get political here because it's not appropriate for these forums, but if anyone is considering removing X/Twitter from their projects, I am seeing that there is some momentum building to bring RSS back to the masses. I remember in the 2000's every site had an RSS feed and email clients supported them - they are a brilliant way to bring the news sources you care about into one place. Of course Google, Apple, Twitter, Meta etc didn't like this because it meant users could read the content they wanted without an algorithm having control and ads being served, so Google Reader was killed off, Apple removed RSS support from Mac Mail, etc.

I have continued to use RSS (although less than I used to), but I am now fully back on board and convincing clients to add them to their sites.

https://aboutfeeds.com/ is a good resource for those who know nothing about RSS and https://hvandenbergh.medium.com/back-to-rss-e4e177314bc3 is a short read about why RSS is good for the user is this day and age.

Spread the word!

And as a side note, for those of you who use UIKit, here is a nice little tweak to make their RSS icon actually look decent and match UiKit's other social media icons.

/* Fixed the ugly UIKIT RSS icon */
.uk-icon[uk-icon*="icon: rss"] svg path {
stroke-width: 3.5;
stroke-linecap: round;
}
.uk-icon[uk-icon*="icon: rss"] svg {
transform: scale(0.85);
}
.uk-icon[uk-icon*="icon: rss"] svg circle {
transform: scale(1.2);
transform-origin: 0% 100%; /* Scale from the bottom-left corner */
}

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