TorbMar 8

I'm currenly re-designing and re-coding my website. One of the main changes I'm doing is working more towards a Digital Garden style of site and less of a feed-style blog (I suppose it might end up being a mix).

Embarrassingly my current website doesn't even have RSS, but that is also one thing I'd like to fix with this new site.

A problem is this though: in a digital garden style site where the interesting update to the content might be *changes* in existing sites, what should actually be included in the RSS feed? New stuff obviously, but what if a page is added to?

One option is to give a choice, but ultimately I need to provide a default canonical option.

(Yeah, I realize I'm yet another developer spending more time developing my website than actually writing content for it.)

#webdesign #digitalgardening #rss #blogging

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@torb Interesting challenge! For RSS in a digital garden, one approach I've seen work well: include an "updated" date alongside the "published" date in your feed entries. New pages get a normal entry, while significant edits re-surface the page with the updated timestamp.

You could also have two feeds: one for "new pages" and one for "recently changed" — let the reader choose.

(And yes, the "building the site instead of writing" trap is universal 😄)

Mar 8 at 1:12pmWeb