feeds
By anders pearson 26 May 2004
thraxil now has an atom feed in addition to RSS. the urls are http://thraxil.org/feeds/atom.xml and http://thraxil.org/feeds/index.rss respectively. (there are also individual user feeds in thraxil.org/_your username_/feeds/ if you don’t want to read everyone’s posts).
you may have noticed that the RSS feed is at a different location than it used to be. i’ve got a permanent redirect setup, so this should highlight all the aggregators out there that don’t properly support HTTP response codes.
you may also notice the lack of the ugly little orange ‘XML’ buttons”. the feed urls are in the HTML head so they can be autodetected. i will also eventually put up a sitemap that will link to them. i think that RSS/Atom feeds are the kind of thing that should be totally transparent to the user. it should be good enough to just point your aggregator at thraxil.org and let it auto-detect the feeds. if your aggregator doesn’t work that way, you should think about finding a better one, or requesting that functionality from whoever maintains it. news aggregation will have a hard time escaping beyond the hardcore web geeks if end users have to understand the mechanisms.