RSS Feed for Newshub

[shakeyourbunny]

A proper RSS feed is missing which takes into account your own filters.

[Neikon]

yes plss, provide a rss link with own custon settings

[Turambar]

Indeed, that would be wonderful

[B[re]aking B[re]ad]

+1 this
please allow us to customize the RSS feed with our own preferences.

The Newshub is a great improvement over the old system though, good work so far!

[psycros]

I absolutely support this. The feature itself is EXACTLY what I've been wanting from Steam, well, forever. It would be child's play to output this as RSS.

[shakeyourbunny]

It would be perfect to have a customized RSS feed, this really lends to it.

[SHADOW-XIII]

yes please!

[shakeyourbunny]

please add a RSS feed feature, this would be really a great boon to the news stream.

[Adils @ Valve]

Hey folks, what are the RSS feed reader that people are using? Would love to test the rss feed in a few of them to make sure it is working great.

[Turambar]

I use a selfhosted Tiny Tiny RSS instance. Contact me if you need a beta tester!

Before moving to selfhosted, I used Feedly then Inoreader.

[shakeyourbunny]

Personally, I use my custom rss to mail script which converts the (full) articles into bog standard mail with images embedded.

I think you should not "optimize" RSS for a certain set of readers clients, but stick to the standard definition (ATOM and/or RSS 2.0 + iTunes Podcast Additions), ie no JavaScript just pure HTML (and embedded CSS).

If you are not aware, there are a lot sof standard libraries for creating / processing standard RSS feeds, like feedgen for Python for example.

The most common RSS readers are either online or normal client applications, to name a few in no particular order:
- Mozilla Thunderbird (can read news feed directly)
- most browser via the "Live Bookmarks" feature and/or extensions
- TinyTinyRSS (https://tt-rss.org) (online, self-hosted)
- Feedly (online)
- NetNewsWire (OSX)
- RSSOwl (Windows)
- Google Reader (dead since 2013)

You can find a lot more on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators, so the reason to "optimize" for some readers is not a good idea, stick to the RSS 2.0 / ATOM standard (+ iTunes podcast additions) and let the readers decide how to display things.

If you wanna do tracking, just include a tracking pixel or something similar.

Perhaps you would also include in an RSS news item at the bottom a custom block exclusively in the news items with the name of the game, short teaser description, current price / discount (if any) and a purchase button. An extra DLC button which leads to the DLC page of the game. If you click on the game (picture) itself, it would lead to the store page.

[Ripper]

Feedly

[B[re]aking B[re]ad]

Hi Adils, thank you for reaching out to us RSS users!

Ever since Google Reader shut down, I went from Feedly (didn't like their premium model and the lack of features) to TheOldReader.com and finally landed at Inoreader.com, which has a lot of nice features for "power-users".

[Adils @ Valve]

:( Google Reader, oh how I miss you! Haven't touch RSS feeds in a long while, so I am bit rusty, so thanks everyone for providing additional information!!


Digging into RSS a bit. I have found we have a bunch of existing code that generates RSS for any game community hub. For instance you can grab DOTA's feed here:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/dota2/rss/

How does that look in a modern RSS reader?

Are folk thinking you would customize on their News hub on Steam and then point their RSS reader to a News Hub unique endpoint for you to pull your personalized content?

[jakopo87]

Originally posted by Adils @ Valve:

Digging into RSS a bit. I have found we have a bunch of existing code that generates RSS for any game community hub. For instance you can grab DOTA's feed here:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/dota2/rss/

How does that look in a modern RSS reader?

Works fine on feedly, although the W3C validator[validator.w3.org] shows a couple of errors

[Turambar]

Originally posted by Adils @ Valve:

Are folk thinking you would customize on their News hub on Steam and then point their RSS reader to a News Hub unique endpoint for you to pull your personalized content?

That would be awesome, yes! (maybe you can make it opt-in so only used feeds are generated)