Bix dot Blog

I think it’s important to distinguish between standards and conventions. Having a /now page or a /uses page or a /feeds page is a convention for the sake of convenience. It’s not a “standard”, per se. As the conversation on Micro.blog about this establishes, the posited /feeds page also solves a problem that doesn’t really exist. Manton Reece notes, “The actually hard part is what to do with the feed URL when someone discovers it.” Jason Becker adds, “Every feed reader I’ve ever used has had no problem finding the RSS/JSON feed from the URL.” The issue isn’t so much finding feeds on a webpage as getting feed readers into the hands of people who would use them. Which isn’t to say I think the /feeds page is a bad idea; just that first people need to be reminded that feeds exist at all.