After my recent posting where I asked people which RSS feeds they read, I received several responses. One of them is Peter’s. Like me he was publishing an OPML file of his feeds already. OPML is a machine readable format that most RSS readers will be able to import, so you can subscribe to blogs I...
Imagine if there were a database of feeds we all subscribed to, and we could get recommendations of new feeds to follow, based on what we already follow.That's the idea behind Share Your OPML, a service I started in 2006. The story of SYO is one of success followed by scaling issues. Now we have better technology so it should scale better.Help us get it started by:1. Export your subscription list in whatever RSS reader or podcast client you use.2. Upload it to the new SYO site. (It's simple, just sign in with Twitter and drag-drop your OPML on the gray box. Takes less than a minute.)If you have questions, post a comment here. Dave
A new service that shares feed information gleaned from OPML subscription lists. It's a reboot of a service I had in 2006 which was quite popular.
Since the earliest days of NetNewsWire, before 1.0 even shipped, I wanted to make the subscriptions list on disk an OPML file. It seemed like using the standard format for listing RSS subscriptions would be a good idea. But I was never able to make that happen — until now, with NetNewsWire 5.0d7.
This plugin allows you to publish the contents of an OPML file in any WordPress post or page. Just put the URL of the file (it must be public on the internet) in between the quotes using this shortcode: [opml url=""]
"Multi WP Blog Search" - simple, straightforward tool for searching across the multiple WordPress sites that you choose to list - https://t.co/1je6xMlxFa
— Ian Guest (@IaninSheffield) September 25, 2020
*This* is why you always need to keep an eye on what @johnjohnston is up to. It slipped under my radar 1st time around.I too missed John's search tool, opps. Thank you for sharing it on Ian.
— Aaron Davis (@mrkrndvs) September 27, 2020
It has me thinking about @ChrisAldrich's recent reference to blogrolls/OPML. I wonder if something could be added to be able to search across the various sites listed on your own site?I think it would be a bit slow to get results from a lot of sites. Limited to WordPress too.
— john johnston (@johnjohnston) September 27, 2020
My sense is that RSS is having a mini resurgence. People are getting wary of the social media platforms and their rapacious appetite for data. We’re getting fatigued from notifications; our inboxes are overflowing. And people are saying that maybe, just maybe, RSS can help. So I’m seeing RSS being discussed more in 2020 than I have done for years. There are signs of life in the ecosystem.
What is the latest and greatest experimentation in opml files?
— Tom Critchlow (@tomcritchlow) July 24, 2020
Feels like rss bundles should be fun and interesting?
Sara Soueidan (Twitter)I get many questions about #RSS. So, naturally, I’m writing an article about it w/ answers to FAQs.
— Sara Soueidan (@SaraSoueidan) June 1, 2020
Fellow blog owners & content publishers, do you have special tips, recommendations or requests for other authors providing RSS? do u have ur own posts about RSS I should mention?
Marcus Herrmann (marcus.io)A few years ago you could easily tell if a page offered an RSS feed. Browsers (at least good ones) had a feed symbol close to their location bar, and if you were really lucky (or used a really good browser), that indicator was even a button, empowering you to subscribe to a website with only one cli...
Carolina Gilabert (Twitter)Open question to you, twitter friends:
— Carol (@CarolSaysThings) February 25, 2020
What's your favourite #IndieWeb enabled site?
At the last #HomebrewWebsiteClub I worked on enabling webmentions on my site. It's my first indie web feature, and I'm already looking for what's next
RTs for reach appreciated pic.twitter.com/33vJdStx5O
