Asking AllSides to improve their Feed Reader support
I sent the following message to AllSides today. Hopefully this will inspire you to ask somebody to improve their feed reader support! Perhaps your local library or city council?
Hello,
I appreciate that you have Feed Reader support for your news, your blog, and for each of your topics, but I see some ways this support could be improved.
Here are my suggestions:
- Provide an RSS feed for the Recent Headline Roundup (https://www.allsides.com/recent-headline-roundups)
- On your home page, provide markup for the following feeds: Recent Headline Roundup, News, Blog, and any other top feeds you recommend (such as the 6 Hot Topics) ... this way feed reader apps can detect all your best feeds from your home page url.
- Always provide a link tag with rel=alternate markup for your feeds. Your home page only has an anchor tag, and it seems that FeedBro cannot detect that, though Feeder does.
- Alongside social links on your site, you have a link for RSS, which is great. Rather than linking directly to an RSS feed, link to a page that tells people about feed readers and gives an introduction to what feeds you have available. Here is an example on my blog to show what I mean: https://reedybear.bearblog.dev/sub/
Thank you for considering any improvements to your RSS support, and thank you for the support you already provide.
Regards,
Reed