A feed reader asks the same question over and over. Anything new? Most of the time the answer is no, and the server sends the whole feed anyway. Conditional GET lets the server answer no in a few hundred bytes instead.
An RSS item is text: a title, a link, a description. Files ride along in two ways. The old one is the enclosure element, which is how every podcast…
An aggregator depends on dozens of servers it doesn't control. At 114 feeds, something is always a little broken. A site is down for maintenance. A…
Feeds are pull by default. A reader asks your server every so often whether anything changed. Usually nothing did. Multiply that by every subscriber…
If you have ever switched feed readers without retyping 200 URLs, you used OPML. It's the export file every reader offers and almost nobody opens…
Really Simple Licensing, or RSL, borrows its name from RSS on purpose. It was launched in September 2025 by the RSL Collective, with Reddit, Yahoo…
Reddit picked November 13, 2026 as the day its RSS feeds stop working. The company announced it on September 30 in a post to moderators, together…
Most people never type a feed URL. They paste a site's home page into their reader and the reader finds the feed. That works because of one line in…
Three feed formats are still in real use. RSS 2.0, Atom and JSON Feed all do the same basic job. They hand a reader app a list of your newest posts…
The front page of syndicator.net is a river of headlines from 114 sites, newest first. Behind it there's no database, no server process and no…
Syndicator reads 114 feeds. Every one of them is listed in a single file, feeds.json, with the site's address and its feed address. That makes it a…
