[Comment] Building RSS/Atom Feeds for ASP.NET MVC

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https://rehansaeed.com/building-rssatom-feeds-for-asp-net-mvc/

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Julien commented on 2015-06-29 13:18:16

Don't forget that there are actually several PubSubHubbub community hub and that Google (and others) will of course consume the data from any hub :)

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Dew Drop – June 29, 2015 (#2044) | Morning Dew commented on 2015-06-29 13:29:28

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Muhammad Rehan Saeed commented on 2015-06-29 14:03:39

Don't forget that there are actually several PubSubHubbub community hub and that Google (and others) will of course consume the data from any hub :)

Thanks @Julien!

I forgot to mention that you can use your own hub instead of Google's. Here is a list of C# hub implementations available on GitHub. You just need to host your hub and use it's URL instead.

The only reasons I can think of for doing this is privacy (If you think Google is untrustworthy and don't want to give them lots of data to feed on) and maybe if you want to record who is subscribing to your feed and record and analyse that data.

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Konto commented on 2016-02-07 09:39:50

Thanks for explicitly pointing out the differences between RSS and Atom. So, Atoms seems the choice to use these days - though, the controller is much more "complex" than the RSS controller (not complex in sense of logic, but in a sense of pure number of code lines)

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Muhammad Rehan Saeed commented on 2016-02-07 11:25:38

Thanks for explicitly pointing out the differences between RSS and Atom. So, Atoms seems the choice to use these days - though, the controller is much more "complex" than the RSS controller (not complex in sense of logic, but in a sense of pure number of code lines)

Both specifications are very old by internet standards and both can actually be used because most readers support both. Atom is the later more clearly defined standard with less weirdness. Both can be implemented in exactly the same way using System.ServiceModel.SyndicationFeed.

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Clara commented on 2017-10-14 10:32:05

Hi Rehan, Thanks for the useful information about RSS and Atom, Your post help me to get my feed published. Thanks a ton.