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Steam supports feed readers! (RSS)

I've been advocating for RSS (and you should too!), and was ready to send Steam support a message asking them to add RSS to their website.

But low-and-behold they already have it!

If you visit the Trackmania News page, there's a 'Links' dropdown, where you can select 'RSS'. Then you can 'Share' that page with your feed reader app (or copy+paste the url).

Well, this is so-so. The main page for TM SHOULD have HTML markup so that feed reader apps can auto-detect all available feeds. The 'News' page should also have markup for this.

Also, the feeds on steam give a title of the app id (not the game's name), and they provide the steam icon rather than the game's icon.

So I wrote a different email.

I'm excited anyway, bc now I have a good way to read up on Trackmania updates. I just didn't bother before. Now I might actually care!

But yeah, I hope they improve their RSS support. We'll see what they say!


This was my message:

Your website has RSS (atom) feeds for news updates about games, which is fantastic! For example, if you visit https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1972440 there is an 'RSS' link which can be used by my feed reader app so I can get updates about shotgun king.

Can you make the following improvements to the website for RSS support?

Thank you for considering these improvements!
Have a great day!

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