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The jQuery Blog is the only blog I care about that doesn't have an RSS feed. I've waited years for them to add (or fix?) their RSS feed. With Google Reader shutting down, it seems that RSS feeds aren't popular, so maybe the jQuery Blog will never have an RSS feed. I looked for a solution just now and learned that Twitter accounts have RSS feeds. Here's the RSS feed for jQuery's Twitter account, which isn't full of typical Twitter noise:

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_...

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Huh - it does have an RSS feed though, it's just the one provided by Wordpress: http://blog.jquery.com/feed/

If you put http://blog.jquery.com/ into your feedreader it should be able to just automatically detect the feed (it's embedded in the page using a <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" .../>).

When I try to subscribe to http://blog.jquery.com/ or http://blog.jquery.com/feed/ in Thunderbird, I receive an error stating that "the Feed URL is not a valid feed". Also, I couldn't find a feed URL at the jQuery Blog that validates at the W3C Feed Validation Service.

I've seen multiple commenters at the jQuery Blog state that the feed is broken for them too. The following search results bring up some of these comments:

https://google.com/search?q=site:blog.jquery.com+broken+feed...

I recall that this issue was acknowledged at some point by one of the contributors at the jQuery Blog. I don't recall who acknowledged it though, but I seem to recall that they stated it would be fixed eventually, which is why I didn't look for a solution until today.

FYI, Twitter is going to delete all their RSS feeds in a couple weeks https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-final-dates

Heh, thanks for the news.

Most blogs do have them even if they don't link to them. Just look for <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" ...> in the source code

Yeah, that URL isn't valid in Thunderbird or at the W3C Feed Validation Service. :-(

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