Introduction to Atom

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21 points | by susam 3 hours ago ago

6 comments

  • intrasight 2 hours ago

    First iteration of Google's APIs were atom. I do miss XML.

  • mplanchard 2 hours ago

    I hand-rolled an atom feed for my statically generated blog. It’s a reasonable, easy format to work with.

  • perrohunter 2 hours ago

    what is old is new again?

    • hnlmorg an hour ago

      No, this is just old.

      Pity though. RSS / Atom was a fantastic concept and it’s a real pity big tech killed them off.

      • rambambram an hour ago

        Nothing is killed. It still exists, it's an open protocol after all. And I choose to use it, it's pretty fun to calmly follow around 2000 feeds from - mostly - blogs from HN. And cars... I need my car blogs.

        • geodel 41 minutes ago

          Agreed. That nowadays people or even big companies find it outside their core competency to host their blog, have atom/RSS feeds is not because big tech killing it.