This keeps happening:

1. I read a blog post I really like; maybe I found it on Lobsters, maybe it was a link via another blog, who knows. I liked the post.
2. I read other posts on their blog. I read the about page, or look at some projects! This is a cool person!
3. I decide I’d love to keep reading their blog. I look for an RSS/Atom feed, so I can know the next time they post, and the next, and the next!
4. There is no RSS or Atom feed. There is no way to find out the next time they post, short of manually checking every so often, and that is not practicable.
5. Sad.

This happens surprisingly often — “surprisingly” because, if you don’t give your readers some way to actually be “your readers”, you kind of guarantee you will not have any readers! In which case, I mean, it’s cool that you write and all, but see point number 5 above: sad!! I want to read your posts! Please let me!

(I am writing this post partly so that I can include it in the emails I send to folks when I find out they don’t have a feed I can find. If I have sent this to you, I mean no offence, nor do I wish to put work onto you! I’d just like to share that I think your blog is neat, enough so that I felt moved to reach out to you.)

It’s come to my attention that some folks don’t know my blog has an RSS feed! This is kind of astonishing to me as it suggests people actually manually check blogs for new posts sometimes?!

At any rate, it does, it’s just not linked anywhere explicitly — but it is supported via RSS autodiscovery, which I just kind of .. assumed everyone used, relied on, knew about? But apparently not!

I guess I’ll add a link, just in case. :)