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Why doesn't a site like Feedly immediately convert a blog or podcast url into a feed if I paste it? Or does that feature exist? It's strange that the intermediate process of finding the feed is necessary. I use getrssfeed com

To make finding the feed easier you can use browser extensions that do the RSS auto-discovery protocol. This will use metadata in the website to find the feed with no guessing.

Whatever doesn't have a /feed option, I'll pop the page source and do a quick search for "rss" or "atom" or "index.xml"

The bigger question, in my mind, though, is why some sites don't offer RSS/Atom syndication (or why some choose to disable it)