Feed Informer: Forums » Topic: Impact of changing RSS sources https://feed.informer.com/forums/topic.php?id=69 Feed Informer: Forums » Topic: Impact of changing RSS sources en-US Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.2 admin on "Impact of changing RSS sources" https://feed.informer.com/forums/topic.php?id=69#post-295 Thu, 24 May 2007 11:13:09 +0000 admin 295@https://feed.informer.com/forums/ One compelling reason is that RSS' various versions have been more rigid in recent years than Atom, which is still a growing format. Atom has only, in the last year, made it to version 1.0 and become relatively stable, yet many Atom feeds are still of the older 0.3 type. Atom is becoming more mature, but RSS already made it.

]]> mikepower on "Impact of changing RSS sources" https://feed.informer.com/forums/topic.php?id=69#post-294 Thu, 24 May 2007 10:48:01 +0000 mikepower 294@https://feed.informer.com/forums/ Thanks. I tend to use RSS but I've never been sure why :)

]]> admin on "Impact of changing RSS sources" https://feed.informer.com/forums/topic.php?id=69#post-292 Thu, 24 May 2007 08:40:03 +0000 admin 292@https://feed.informer.com/forums/ Generally I would recommend RSS over Atom, but it tends to be that if one fails or doesn't produce the expected result, the other can.

]]> mikepower on "Impact of changing RSS sources" https://feed.informer.com/forums/topic.php?id=69#post-290 Wed, 23 May 2007 18:23:15 +0000 mikepower 290@https://feed.informer.com/forums/ Would you recommend using the Atom feed? I've never been completely sure which to use.

]]> admin on "Impact of changing RSS sources" https://feed.informer.com/forums/topic.php?id=69#post-289 Wed, 23 May 2007 17:09:00 +0000 admin 289@https://feed.informer.com/forums/ Always good news to hear :) Yes, there is a lot of room for error with things like this (on both sides). RSS stuff isn't as easy as it could or should be, but that is likely to change in the next few years :)

]]> mikepower on "Impact of changing RSS sources" https://feed.informer.com/forums/topic.php?id=69#post-287 Wed, 23 May 2007 11:25:22 +0000 mikepower 287@https://feed.informer.com/forums/ Just wanted to mention this. I recently changed from Blinklist (which has been having ongoing problems) to Magnolia (which so far is brilliant) to feed my bookmarks by RSS. Since changing I have had no problems whatever and the feeds show up in timely fashion without any need to force them, which I often had to do previously. ( I did spend several minutes trying to force one feed only to realise I had used the old Blinklist tag name rather than the new one. Doh ! )

I wanted to mention this because it shows that feed problems can often be caused by the originating source even though their RSS feed looks fine and shows up promptly. So I'm sure some of us are guilty of blaming FeedDigest when it's not their fault :) For all those times I muttered under my breath...sorry! ;)

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