atom - withering?

September 30, 2003 10:00:19.539

In looking through my server logs, I see a lot of daily requests for the RSS files - from a very wide variety of newsreaders. However, there have been no requests at all (at least not yet) for the atom feeds. There are atom feeds for all the blogs hosted here. Now admittedly, other than this blog, I don't really advertise the atom feeds. On the other hand, I haven't had any requests either. At least from my viewpoint, atom - as a syndication format - has dribbled off into irrelevance. RSS, for all its warts, is the format that is actually in use - and that's unlikely to change.

Comments

To early to tell.

[Daniel Von Fange] September 30, 2003 10:18:46.708

I think it is too early to tell. Also, even if atom does not take off on the syndication side, it is likely to dominate the posting-to-weblog side of things.

I'd subscribe to your atom feed

[Gordon Weakliem] September 30, 2003 23:28:20.955

And Avi's. But BottomFeeder won't let me. I'll update NewsGator on thursday (not in the office tomorrow). As of a couple weeks ago, half my subs in NewsGator were Atom feeds, that % has dropped off because I've added a few feeds since then. BottomFeeder Version 3.0 -- Released on September 30, 2003 -- build info: {BottomFeeder -- (8.103,jamesr)} {TwoflowerBundle -- (0.4.68,jamesr)}

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[Gordon] September 30, 2003 23:45:33.171

Realized there was a newer version out there, but still can't subscribe to your Atom feed with BottomFeeder Version 3.1 -- Released on September 30, 2003 -- build info: {BottomFeeder -- (9.107,jamesr)} {TwoflowerBundle -- (0.4.68.2,jamesr)}

Not Valid

[Gordon] September 30, 2003 23:51:00.994

Part of the problem might be that your atom feed isn't valid: http://www.feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/rssBlog/atom02.xml

Re: atom - withering?

[Atom Feeds] October 1, 2003 9:56:43.020

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Atom feeds should read in the latest update to BottomFeeder - if you use the upgrade manager, grab the latest update. As to the feed validation issue, I'm looking at it

Re: Re: atom - withering?

[James Robertson] October 1, 2003 10:53:15.848

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The feed now validates - I fixed the generator tag, and fixed IS8601 date generation. I also updated BottomFeeder to properly parse Atom feeds - it works now (just get the update).