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The site definitely has a feed. Although I don't have a visible link to it. I am sort of intentionally ignoring my recommendation to provide a link and RSS icon as an experiment to see how well feed discovery is supported and used. I wouldn't recommend this but I've been going back and forth with this on my personal blog as it isn't very important if the maximum number of people can find the feed.

If you just paste the page into your feed reader it should find the feed for you.



By the way, Kevin: it may seem overly picky, but would it not be cleaner to have

   <link href=/feed.atom rel=alternate title="Blog Posts" type=application/atom+xml>
instead of

  <link href=../../../../feed.atom rel=alternate title="Blog Posts" type=application/atom+xml>

?


It could, but my site is available via IPFS so I use relative links everywhere in case a gateway is used. For example https://ipfs.io/ipns/kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-pr.... That being said with subdomain gateways being widely available now it is pretty safe to go back to absolute links as https://kevincox-ca.ipns.dweb.link/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-... handles absolute references just fine.

And of course none of this matters much if you have a non-IPNS reference because the feed will never change making it mostly useless.


NetNewsWire seems to have a problem discovering the feed from index pages (e.g. https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/).


Weird, the link is the same as the other pages and it on other sites:

https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fke...

https://feedmail.org/subscriptions/new?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkev...

However I noticed that this site also has trouble: https://discovery.thirdplace.no/?url=&q=https%3A%2F%2Fkevinc...


Vivaldi discovers the feed.




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