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> Other common formats are earlier RSS standards and JSON Feed or Microformats h-feed. I would avoid using these—or even less common formats—as they are less widely supported.

Agree that RSS is imperative; don’t agree about excluding JSON feeds. One can do both.



One can, but I've found little value to this. What are you giving your readers with JSON feeds that the RSS or Atom feed isn't giving them?


Some prefer it. It offers another two or three fields that RSS doesn't.

In any event, it requires virtually zero extra effort after initial setup, so I see no reason not to offer both. Different strokes...




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