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Comment by kevincox | Hacker News Reader

I haven't noticed a WordPress blog where the RSS feed wasn't properly advertised. Does it depend on the theme to include the appropriate link tag? Or maybe it is just sampling bias where I don't notice that WordPress sites are actually wordpress if they don't advertise the feed.

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It doesn't help that even Firefox have recently removed RSS/Atom feed autodiscovery and no longer display the icon if there's an RSS head entry. You have to manually type it by knowing common URLs or look at the source. Firefox also removed even the ability to even render RSS feed xml. Now it just asks you to download it like a file. These were very unhealthy choices for a community browser but completely sensible for a JS virtual machine and DRM portal to stream media and buy things.

Yeah definitely. Now you need an extension which accesses every site that you visit. And of course few mobile browsers support extensions anyways.

So on mobile half the time I paste the URL into my feed reader to see that RSS isn't supported.

At this point I'm just waiting for Mozilla to fuck up enough so that there is enough motivation for a hard fork to happen and survive. The only reson I'm using Firefox (without auto updates since Mozilla can't be trusted) is because the chrome monopoly is even worse.

It is up to the theme to output a visual link to the RSS feed, but unless disabled, WordPress itself will always output a `<link rel="alternate" ...>` tag with an RSS feed.

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