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Quick rant about websites that go into all the trouble of having an RSS feed but not linking to it in the <head>... I don't want to go hunting for the cute orange button, I want to copy and paste "https://example.com" into my feed reader and let the computer handle the work.

If you maintain any website with a news feed, go right now and check that you have this in your <head>:

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/rss.xml" title="News feed" />
                                                           ^^^^^^^^ change! ^^^^^^^^^
(Also note whether and where you need to use application/rss+xml, application/atom+xml, or application/json.)



Thanks for this comment, it encouraged me to go and add this to the <head> of my blog.


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