Some time ago I announced that it was my intention to move away completely from using RSS and use Atom 1.0 completely. Phase I was to move all Bloglines users over to the Atom feed and remove references to the RSS feed from the home page.
Phase II, which I’ve just enacted, has involved moving all users of the excerpts feed over to the Atom feed, posting a message in the main RSS feed that the feed is due to be discontinued soon, and removed all remaining RSS references.
Phase III will come shortly – changing the Comments RSS feeds to Comments Atom feeds, and phase IV will see the RSS feed turned off altogether. If you are subscribed to the main RSS feed I would advise you to switch over soon as I’m intending to discontinue that feed by the end of this year, hopefully.
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November 18, 2005 at 15:46
Good job I’ve been using the atom feed all this time then.
November 18, 2005 at 16:53
Should just leave up a 301 redirect to the “RSS” feed. What is Atom then if not a type of RSS?
November 18, 2005 at 16:57
Atom and RSS are both forms of ‘web feeds’, in the same way that HTML is a form of ‘web page’. You don’t go to the BBC’s HTML site, do you?
I’ll be doing a 301 redirect later but I know that something like 5% of feed readers can’t handle Atom so I’m giving people a chance to change. I want to stick to one format to avoid confusion and I see Atom as being the superior of the two.
November 18, 2005 at 17:33
I would keep both up. By not supporting RSS you will, as said, lose some readers. And readers mean money
November 19, 2005 at 05:27
What is happening to the feedburner feeds?