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Comment by SamWhited | Hacker News Reader

Just as importantly, please add a meta tag that links to the RSS or Atom feed correctly so feed readers can discover it. Medium (which I hate and you should feel bad if you're using) finally added RSS feeds, but I still have to try and figure out what the hell they are every single time because they're not linked from anywhere and can't be discovered by my feed reader.

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I have the problem that those meta links are kind of useless nowadays because Firefox removed the possibility to use Navigator.registerContentHandler() so I could redirect from the Feed button in the Firefox UI to TT-RSS. Now the button in the UI let's me download the Feed resource which doesn't make sense.

I believe the rss:// protocol could (still can?) be used to shell out to your reader.

Nobody uses the rss:// protocol in their <link>.

I use https://code.guido-berhoerster.org/addons/firefox-addons/fee... to restore this functionality.

I use an external feed reader, inoreader (and am thinking about using Gnome Feeds or whatever its called when it's a little less buggy), so it's useful for that anyways. I can just paste the home page in instead of digging around for a feed link in footers and what not. But I take your point, Firefox removing support really hurt me at the time too.

That means you too, @kevq! Please add RSS support to your site! http://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery

For instance, it took me a while to find the feed of the site in the site linked. It's in the post, but if you go to the home page it is tricky to find.

Medium has RSS feeds for pretty much everything, from users to tags to publications, to tags in a publications, to stories clapped on by a given user....

yes, that's what I said. For the longest time they only had comments though and not the posts themselves (or at least, they didn't advertise it if they already did). Now they have it but they don't have a proper meta tag and they don't link to it anywhere that I can find.

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