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Towards Better RSS Feeds, by Gwern · Gwern.net

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RSS⁠ is not supported because I have been unhappy with past attempts to create an RSS feed; the usual blog-centric approach doesn’t work well with lots of incremental updates and I ⁠dropped the git → RSS bridge⁠ as it was nothing but noise for readers. For perspective, here are the last 40 git⁠ patches to Gwern.net, to give you an idea of how miserably useless a reading experience the diffs⁠ per se would be for an ordinary reader who just wants a list of ‘interesting’ updates or writings: “+lns; begin catching up after trip” • “record all minor pending edits (1722141005)” • “lint; rescrape for ⁠date-range subscripts⁠” • “lint” • “+commafy number pass” • “lint; +first comma-fying pass” • “lint” • “lint” • “lorem: inline: date subscripts: continue finetuning examples” • “+lns” • “second EN DASH pass” • “big EN DASH search-and-replace while working on the newly-enabled date-range subscripts” • “+lns, catch up on some comments” • “Crumb⁠: +apposite comic that’s a bit of a meme for Crumb, a

--- title: 'Towards Better RSS Feeds' author: Gwern description: "Discussion of the mismatch between blog-oriented RSS feeds and longform/wiki writing methods, and how providing a ‘temporal hierarchy’ of raw edits → summaries may help square the circle." created: 2024-07-30 modified: 2024-12-14 status: finished importance: N/A confidence: log css-extension: dropcaps-de-zs toc-not backlink: False ... > Is there a feed to the content that is published on the site itself? [RSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS) is not supported because I have been unhappy with past attempts to create an RSS feed

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