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by jamesq 1098 days ago
We style RSS feeds as part of our custom RSS tool. Most users of that aren't necessarily technical and so providing a more user friendly interface makes a huge difference. You can see an example at https://sniprss.com/sniprss/curiously-creative/

I'd love to explore how we could do more with this as well as I see so much value but like it has been pointed out here, RSS is set and forget for many people and therefore isn't in the majority of user's minds. Also the utility of having content in a feed is undervalued IMHO.

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You don’t seem to be doing the same thing: rather, you’re sniffing for an Accept header, and if it includes text/html, you serve HTML, and if it doesn’t, you serve an Atom feed with no XSL stylesheet.

Incidentally, given this behaviour your response should include `Vary: Accept`. This is actually messing Firefox up a bit: open the document, it loads the HTML, View Source, it renders the source of the Atom, loading it from the cache according to the dev tools, not sure how it got there, force reload and you get the source of the HTML. Your server is also not handling HEAD requests, but improperly responding 405 to them.