Improve Feed Reader (RSS) support in Steam

[ReedyBear]

The Steam website has RSS (atom) feeds for news updates about games, which is fantastic! For example, if you visit https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1972440 there is an 'RSS' link which can be used by my feed reader app so I can get updates about shotgun king.

I'd like to see the following improvements to the website for Feed Reader support.
- On the news page for games (example linked above), add HTML markup identifying the RSS Url, so that feed reader apps can automatically detect the feed url.
- On the main page for a game (i.e.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1972440/Shotgun_King_The_Final_Checkmate/), add HTML markup identifying all available feeds, so feed reader apps can automatically detect them. I see there are feeds already available for 'Read related news' and 'View update history', but they are not listed in the markup and cannot be auto-detected from the main store page for the game.
- Add feeds for discussions and the workshop. Individual feeds for each discussion would be neat too.
- Give feeds an appropriate title and description. https://store.steampowered.com/feeds/news/app/1972440/?cc=US&l=english provides the title '1972440 RSS Feed', but should give 'Shotgun King News' (or something like it). The Description is similar.
- Give feeds an appropriate icon. Currently, it looks like all feeds just use the steam icon, whereas they should use the icon of the game. The atom spec supports 'icon' and 'logo' and I'm not sure which is correct, or if both should be used.

I've sent these suggestions to Steam support. They said they'd forward them to the appropriate department and that I could also post them here, and that the dev team does regularly check suggestions here. So here it is.

[Ben Lubar]

Originally posted by ReedyBear:

I've sent these suggestions to Steam support. They said they'd forward them to the appropriate department and that I could also post them here, and that the dev team does regularly check suggestions here. So here it is.

That first thing they said to you is a hint that your suggestion was actually worth something. The second thing is the thing they say to everyone.

There's not really much more anyone can say about this. You made good suggestions, and someone at Valve knows about them. They're probably not high priority, but if someone at Valve has some time to burn on lower priority improvements to the service, your suggestions are one of the things they could work on.

Congratulations, you've made a difference! (At some unspecified point in the future.)