--- layout: post date: 2026-05-07 21:00 title: "RSS Feed Discovery in well known is better than guessing" cited: "Stuart Breckenridge" link: "https://stuartbreckenridge.net/2026-05-04-moving-feed-discovery-to-well-known/" seo: "RSS feed discovery in .well-known/feed-menu.json" type: linked --- 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 ``. 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 `` to a feed reader > the feed reader scans ``and can’t find any feeds > the feed reader then makes educated guesses to find feeds, e.g., > `/feed` > `/rss` > `rss.xml` > `/atom` > and so on > Contrast that with: > > the user provides a website `` to a feed reader > the feed reader reads `` and immediately has a full rundown of the feeds the site offers > The benefits are clear.