Www.julialang.org: rss feed for blog

[ViralBShah]

We need to update/ reinstate the rss feed for our blog.

[tlienart]

Note that there's already https://github.com/JuliaLang/www.julialang.org/blob/gh-pages/index.xml which is generated from the blog posts. (i.e. feed:https://julialang.org/index.xml)

It seems mostly fine apart from a bunch of (old?) blog posts that don't have a pub date it seems and so default to Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Plugging that address in Vienna seems to do the job:

so I guess remaining steps would be

• check and fix blog posts with erroneous pub date (this could be automated given the date is already partly in the file name)
• add a button for RSS subscription

[ViralBShah]

We got an email about this from feedly.com on the JSOC email address. So I guess there are people and tools out there who are consuming our feed.

[tlienart]

Ok I actually need to fix this, currently the index.xml is the old one that was generated by Hugo; I should set generate_rss to true in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaLang/www.julialang.org/master/config.md ;

I'll do this soon and test with the netlify preview

[tlienart]

ok now it's generated by Franklin; both julialang.org/feed.xml and julialang.org/index.xml can be used; maybe another step will be to add an RSS button; I'll open another issue for that.

[ViralBShah]

If I go to the feed.xml in my browser (chrome), it has this error. Is that ok?

This page contains the following errors:
error on line 74 at column 51: EntityRef: expecting ';'
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

[tlienart]

I'll look into it; I suspect one or two URLs have a & (I think the ml&pl) and it just needs escaping. It's weird that some reader handle it and some don't.

[ViralBShah]

We can also rename those blogs if easier, and have redirects from the old URLs.