RSS was invented in 1999, 6 years before git!
Now we have git and should just be "git cloning" blogs you like, rather than subscribing to RSS feeds.
I still have RSS feeds on all my blogs for back-compat, but git clone is way better.
If anything were to replace RSS (and Atom) I'd personally hope for h-feed [1] since it's DRYer. But realistically it's going to be hard to eclipse RSS, there's far too much adoption and it is mostly sufficient.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/x-git" title="my blog as a git repo" href="..." />
Anyway, there isn't an official IANA-defined type for a git repo (the application/x-git is my closest guess until one became official) but my point is it isn't too far beyond what auto-discovery of RSS is.
I think the GP's comment is from the point of view of making it easy to retrieve the contents of the blog archive, easier than the hoops mentioned (bulk archive retrieval and generating WordPress page sequences, etc.) as well as solving the problem in TFA (partial feeds, partial blog contents in the feed).
This is a _great_ idea. Let's make this happen.
Edit: okay this is live now in Scroll and across PLDB, my blog, and other sites. Would love if someone could post this link to HackerNews: https://scroll.pub/blog/gitOverRss.html
A million?
Having your own local copy of your favorite authors' collections is the absolute way to go. So much faster, searchable, transformable, resistant to censorship, et cetera.
Can’t say anything about blogs, but the kernel folks actively use mailing list archives over Git[1,2] (also over NNTP and of course mail is also delivered as mail).
horrible simple hack: use `wget` with `--mirror` option, and commit the result to a git repository. Repeat with a `cron` job to keep an archive with change history.
You clone static site generated websites.
Scroll is designed for this, but there's no reason other SSCs can't copy our patterns.
Here's a free command line working client you can try [beta]: https://wws.scroll.pub/readme.html
Instead of favoriting feeds, you favorite repos. Then you type "wws fetch" to update all your local repos.
It fetches the branch that contains the built artifacts along with the source, so you have ready to read HTML and clean source code for any transformations or analysis you want to do.
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I love Wordpress, but the WordpressPHPMySQL stack is a drag. At some point I expect they will move the Wordpress brand, community, and frontend to be powered by a static site generator.
To be quite honest, I suspect they'll probably want to use Scroll as their new backend.