An RSS / Atom feed per tag

[galateus]

Title:
An RSS / Atom feed per tag

Area:
rss, tags

Summary:
Tag-specific RSS feeds would be more flexible than the current per-tag email notifications system, and let non-account-havers track things.

Description:
(Right now, when viewing a /tag/footag page, the little RSS icon in Firefox points to a generic feed for the whole community/journal. That's slightly unintuitive but also inspired this suggestion!)

The same use-case for per-tag Notifications applies to per-tag syndication: Wanting to keep up with a subset of a community/journal's posts without having to read through non-related topics.

The difference is that Atom/RSS would let us use feed aggregators instead of just our email clients. It'll also allow random Internet passers-by to track tagged entries without having to sign in or provide an email address or anything at all. (Which seems like a big plus point to me. There are probably other "feeds beat out circa-1999 subscription techniques" advantages I'm forgetting.)

Poll #880

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Should be implemented as-is.
3 (13.6%)

Should be implemented with changes.
4 (18.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (22.7%)

(Other: please comment)
10 (45.5%)

ETA: Ohhh, this already exists--it just isn't very visible.

Comments

[snakeling]

Actually, it already exists (I always subscribe to tags via RSS, since the tracking option is faulty: it only takes the post into account if the tag was added at the time of posting.)

The problem is to make it more viewable. I made a suggestion to that effect on LJ and I stand by it. Adding a RSS link/icon as a module in the sidebar/header would be a good step, but not all layouts would have them anyway.

[azurelunatic]

+1

[afuna]

Agh, I thought we'd fixed that. It's one of the things that has been bothering me forever, and I didn't realize we didn't have a bug for it yet!

[zvi]

+1 I did not know that.

[kyrielle]

+1 - I did not know this existed!

[galateus]

Ohhh, so it does. +1. *The More You Know*...

[ancientsavvy]

+1

[afuna]

I chose "other" because this is already possible. See http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/data/rss?tag=untagged, for example.

But we need to make it discoverable/more obvious. The link in the syndicated module already shows this; it should apply to the link in the head as well (so it uses the tag url in the address bar)

[denise]

The fact that I didn't know that means we should probably make it more obvious, yes. ;)