Making an RSS only feed with Jekyll

Building on top of the recent work on releasing 1.7. I am now able to publish a RSS only feed on a Jekyll site, adding a collections property to config.yml enables a new data type in my case that is RSS but by also setting the output to false none of the item in the new _rss folder get processed or output to the _site folder in the deployment. This is a very clever way to manage data and will allow me to post items to my new feed without it appearing on the website or clog it up the main feed.

collections:
      RSS:
        output: false

I am a big fan of RSS in its indie web roots and its open standard. I consume most content via RSS as it’s much more accessible (no flashing adverts, autoplaying videos, sounds, or cookie notices). I wish all sites that have a news/blog/time series based publishing format were mandated to have a feed.

Apparently thanks to Dave Rupert’s RSS Club I understand I am not alone.