So This Is Why I Sometime Reset the Feed Reader of Friends

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I have a friend who read my blog using my feed. And sometime he pings me for some problem with the feed, like a drop of all the article as new

And after read some other post with the same problem ( Robb Knight problem with feed reader Kev other problem with feed reader ) I understand a little this: Atom is newer and superior than Rss.

Atom vs Rss

Atom is the newer one, born after the RSS and after fix a lot of the RSS bugs like:

  • You have a strict format for checking and validation in Atom
  • RSS is simpler but less strict and it is riddled with ambiguities which lead to inconsistency of interpretation
  • You have a unique id for the feed in Atom

The last one is the one I was searching…

The Answer

The feed reader find the new feed (new because you change the url or you change the serverside code) and check:

  • Atom Feed: the reader find the same ID so is the same feed
  • RSS Feed: the reader don’t find the ID and find something different not in the items part so it is a new one

So I add the JsonFeed and AtomFeed to the blog for give the reader multiple option for the feed!

You can find all at this link


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