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Use "Atom" rather than "RSS" to refer to the Atom feed [Enhancement]

Open tranquillity-codes opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Currently, the Atom₂ feed provided at /feed/ is referred to as RSS₁.

RSS₁ and Atom₂ are incompatible, and while it is true that most feed readers support both Atom₂ and RSS₁, certain feed readers only support RSS₁ (prominent example at the time of writing is conky), causing a lot of confusion when one tries to use the labelled-as-RSS₁ Atom feed with an RSS₁-only reader.

References
  • [1]: https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html
  • [2]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4287

tranquillity-codes avatar May 31 '23 01:05 tranquillity-codes

My RSS reader does not use Atom feeds either. I'd love for Invidious to provide RSS.

tio-trom avatar Jun 02 '23 15:06 tio-trom