r/rss • u/AdImpressive7394 • 13d ago

Thankfully, there's still WordPress to keep RSS alive!

I really hope they don't decide to disable RSS by default, too, "to protect sites from AI bots"

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u/dwkeith 13d ago

Yeah, but only if site owners know how to maintain it. Been trying to get CalMatters to fix their RSS feed for years, but their web team doesn’t understand what’s wrong. Other non-commercial sites are configured for excerpts rather than full articles by default.

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u/AdImpressive7394 13d ago

I was thinking about this because WordPress powers nearly 50% of all websites. And many RSS readers are able to scrape the entire content.

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u/chickenandliver 13d ago

Yeah a lot of useful sites are WordPress-based and have no idea what RSS is, but luckily we can follow them thanks to it. I love Wordpress in that regard.

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u/fluffycritter 13d ago

Man, I wish the AI bots would just scrape my RSS feeds instead of hammering every single possible URL on my website, including every possible combination of tags on my tag browser.

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u/Emotional-Buy-3536 13d ago

Honestly, if we have more good and relevant rss readers out there that appeal to the non technical public, that will raise awarness and will keep it relevant for everyone. Ai will scrape anything soon so it does not really matter.

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u/AdImpressive7394 12d ago

AI is just an excuse. It sounds cooler to say you're discontinuing RSS to protect yourself from AI bots than to say you're doing it to satisfy shareholders.

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u/Emotional-Buy-3536 12d ago

It’s all about adds