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[Feeds] Re: Should we standardize on a single URL path to RSS feeds?

tim rice <whoneedsgravity@gmail.com> Mon, 16 December 2024 15:22 UTC

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From: tim rice <whoneedsgravity@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:22:06 -0800
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Morning Mark,

Is this within the purview of the IETF, and does a similar standard for the
other examples that you mentioned exist already?

Thank you,

-Tim

On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 7:15 AM Mark <mark=40openrss.org@dmarc.ietf.org>
wrote:

> Hey,
>
> My org works on providing RSS feeds for websites that don't have them. And
> we're seeing a lot of feed readers adopting the unfortunate practice of
> probing multiple paths to a website just to try to find if there's an RSS
> feed available (e.g. /rss, /.xm, /feed, etc). It hogs up quite a bit of
> unnecessary resources. It becomes an even harder hit for servers when all
> the requests happen at the exact same millisecond. :(
>
> We could benefit from standardizing on a single path so that feed readers
> can easily find a site's RSS feed. Kind of like the robots.txt file or the
> favicon.ico file. Everyone knows where they are.
>
> Has the working group ever discussed something like this? I'm curious of
> your thoughts.
>
> Thanks and hope your week is off to a great start!
>
> Mark Kennedy
> Engineer
> openrss.org
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