What exactly are the advantages / disadvantages of RSS and Atom?

@nmke-de@yarn.zn80.net https://www.saksoft.com/blog/rss-vs-atom/

I got to say that in the last few years I’ve used Atom almost exclusively. I remind parsing XML RSS feeds by hand 15 or 20 years ago, so I could say it’s a really old format by Internet standards.

That said I switched from read only feeds to microblogging or chats. Reading offline is nice but I don’t do it enough nowadays.

@nmke-de@yarn.zn80.net I’ve been wanting to write about this in a formal manner. I’ll try to get a post out about it today on mckinley.cc.

Spoiler: Atom is better.