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Comment by semasad | Hacker News Reader

The main problem I found with RSS in these days is the lack of access to they. I want access the RSS of NYT, where I find it? I want X blog, where? After the web migrated from RSS to paywalls, I have no option to just choice some news webs/blogs and focus on that.

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If you paste https://www.nytimes.com/ into your feed reader it will likely discover https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml automatically. This tends to work very well for most blogs and many sites. I often just assume that there is a feed available and past article URLs into my feed reader, most of the time the feed is automatically discovered.

Back in the day browsers had icons that would light up when a feed was available, however all of the most popular browsers have removed this feature. You can add it back with an extension easily if you are so inclined.

Sure, NYT is an easy one, but if you try some more "expensive" (they really do not enjoy your free read) like Bloomberg the your RSS feed will keep small.

> I want access the RSS of NYT, where I find it?

https://www.nytimes.com/rss

With Feedbin (which I use, guess others work similar), pasting the website URL is enough. It’ll scan for feeds and that’s it.

Generally they have a RSS icon along side the Twitter, Facebook, etc icons. It looks like a wi-fi symbol. They're also often linked in the footer.

I agree with you, sites tend to hide the link nowadays, even when it's there, and that's frustrating.

Most modern client manage to discover them anyhow though

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