aboutfeeds

Take a look at this feed: https://interconnected.org/home/feed You’ll see if you view source that it’s an RSS (XML) file that your browser doesn’t know how to render. But at the top, there is this: <?xml-stylesheet href="/home/static/styles/pretty-feed-v3.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> Your browser loads that XSLT and uses it to transcode the XML into HTML, which your browser can now render. The source is here: https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds/blob/main/tools/pretty-...

It definitely wasn’t my idea! I got it from Matt Webb: https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds (there’s a .xsl file in the “tools” folder there).

Great part is you can also style the rss feeds with with `.css` https://interconnected.org/home/feed https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds/blob/main/tools/pretty-...

> Does anybody actually know what to do with this now? > If you click the symbol on my page, you just see an ugly page of XML. There's a solution for both issues: apply styling and add explanation to your RSS feed. Here's mine: https://darekkay.com/atom.xml It's based on this solution (adjusted for Atom feeds): https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds/blob/main/tools/pretty-...

Illustrations would definitely help, you’re right. It’s in our issues list, and I have some ideas about simple ways to address that. Issues list is on Github incidentally https://github.com/genmon/aboutfeeds Podcast: I’m not close enough to this world to know. Has podcasting answered the discovery question by centralising directories, or are podcasts still discovered “in the wild”?