[HN Gopher] Some early results for feed reader behavior monitoring
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       Some early results for feed reader behavior monitoring
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2024-06-12 01:11 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (rachelbythebay.com)
        
       | brudgers wrote:
       | Some background here,
       | http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/
        
         | m463 wrote:
         | why are all the links to the site http instead of https?
        
           | asimops wrote:
           | There is no redirect in place. They also have a http rss feed
           | where all links are http. Maybe the poster uses this feed.
           | 
           | PSA: If you change the feed to https, it will also serve all
           | links as https.
        
       | ziggy_star wrote:
       | So even the well intentioned feed readers misbehave sometimes. I
       | guess there is a spec but no proper test suite ever emerged?
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       | On the flip side should RSS become a thing again thus
       | incentivizing bad actors what recourse is there? Or just from
       | poorly written ones?
       | 
       | Seems to be a missing piece.
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       | With torrenting there is either a tracker enforcing ratio or
       | gossip between clients - so bad actors are quickly flushed out of
       | the system. Maybe that's a fertile place to draw inspiration
       | from. I'm not sure.
        
         | x0x0 wrote:
         | If I were betting, I'd bet many of the supposed bugs are
         | readers working around incorrectly-implemented servers. If the
         | feed doesn't update, but it's because of a server bug, your
         | users are still left unhappy. In a perfect world the readers
         | would note which servers are implemented correctly and which
         | you can't trust last-updated / etags etc... that's a lot of
         | work.
        
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