RSS Feed Discovery in well known is better than guessing
I really like this idea, and I hope to see more sites adopt it, and more things move to within the .well-known namespace. So many sites are bloated with all sorts of random files in the root and in the <head>. I’ve added a feed-menu.json and syndication.json to my site.
There’s an Internet-Draft that proposes moving feed discovery to /.well-known/feed-menu.json, which I think, in principle, is a great idea. Take the following very common use case:
the user provides a website
<https://example.com>to a feed reader the feed reader scans<head>and can’t find any feeds the feed reader then makes educated guesses to find feeds, e.g.,/feed/rssrss.xml/atomand so on Contrast that with:the user provides a website
<https://example.com>to a feed reader the feed reader reads<https://example.com/.well-known/feed-menu.json>and immediately has a full rundown of the feeds the site offers The benefits are clear.
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