From RSS to Atom - Susam Pal
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Contrary to the recurring claim that RSS and Atom are dead, most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds, even in 2026. Every time I publish a new post, I can see a good number of visitors arriving from feed readers. From the referrer data in my web server logs (which is not completely reliable but still offers some insight), the three largest sources of traffic to my website are web feeds, newsletters and search engines, in that order.

  • kamenlady
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    18 days ago

    The RSS 2.0 specification is copyrighted by Harvard University and is frozen. No significant changes can be made (although the specification is under a Creative Commons licence) and it is intended that future work be done under a different name; Atom is one example of such work.

    i had it completely wrong the whole time, i actually thought Atom was kind of a fork from the frozen RSS 2.0. That it had the same structure, just with more fields - to put it simply, RSS 2.0 with more features.