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edhelas
4 hours ago
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rpdillon
3 hours ago
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Yeah, I've been writing software that provides feeds for RSS, but I exclusively use Atom. It's just a better format. It does create ambiguity when using a site like this because I'm not sure if my sites will qualify as having an RSS 2.0 feed or not.
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CharlesW
4 hours ago
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Atom's problem is that RSS is also the final modern form of RSS.
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culi
46 minutes ago
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Atom was killed by podcasts. Tbh RSS 2.0 is good enough
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culi
46 minutes ago
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Atom was killed by podcasts
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graemep
3 hours ago
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Why is Atom better?
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F3nd0
2 hours ago
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There might be other reasons, but chrismorgan linked a nice write-up in a sibling comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136685
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graemep
2 hours ago
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Thanks, good points there.
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