[adhoc_slime]

I've almost never cared about learning about rss before but seeing the response it alsways gets, I decided I'd try feedly on my phone and add this blog to it.

Feedly asks for a url, this site makes me download a .bin file. It doesn't make sense how this is my first user experience. I can assume I'm supposed to copy the url in the link? But it is a nav item on the site.

Call me nieve or whatever you like but with ux like this I can start to see how this technology has become less popular.

[imadj]

> I can assume I'm supposed to copy the url in the link? But its nav item on the site.

In feedly and many readers, you can just enter the website URL and it'll find the feed(s) automatically if present.

But in general, how RSS work, you copy the URL to the RSS feed and give it to Reader to subscribe/follow the website. https://reedybear.bearblog.dev/feed/

When the author publishes a new piece, they update the file located at this URL and your reader will fetch you the new content.

[galleywest200]

Why don't you use a feed reader that just have you input the URL? I use News Explorer and I just paste in the RSS URL. Heck, some even just let you paste in the root URL of the site and they find the RSS link for you.

Feedly is a huge beast besides just an RSS reader. Try something lightweight.

[MortyWaves]

I believe browsers, for some conspiratorial reason, actively sabotaged RSS and RSS support in their browsers. Might even be as simple as under the table deals from scumbag ad companies.