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This whole experiment is called RSS Club (https://daverupert.com/rss-club/) - but perhaps it should be called “XML-based distributed feed club”?

I’ve been playing about with local-only and privacy-conscious view tracking (https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/reasonably-accurate-privacy-conscious-cookieless-visitor-tracking-for-wordpress/). I can see how many people click on my stories from HN or Google or anywhere else. I also decided to add the number of times a story is viewed by someone reading via feeds - like you!

Here’s a typical day of page views:

First of all, I’m staggered that so many of you read this via feeds! Hurrah! And I’m amazed that I get more readers via feeds than Google. Every member of this secret RSS club is awesome 😘

When I originally set up this blog, it only supported RSS. At some point, WordPress added the more modern Atom feed format. Both get full support from me. But I’m wondering why so many people are still on RSS rather than Atom? Are there clients which don’t support Atom? Is it just a legacy thing?

Should I redirect the RSS feed to the Atom feed or would that break things for you?

If you have any strong views on RSS 🆚 Atom, please drop me a comment via your favourite method (https://edent.tel/).