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Condor
5y

Just added an RSS feed to my blog (https://nixmagic.com/rssfeed.xml/ if you're interested), and as I was testing it out in an RSS reader, I noticed that the reader basically just renders the webpage as if it were a web browser.

Heh.. I have only the Webkit engine on my computer, so I suppose it's just using that in the backend or something like that? How much RAM does that consume?

*looks at Task Manager*

67MB. I shit you not.. 67 megabytes. And that is rendering an entire website with no noticeable differences from a regular web browser.

Chrome: *gobble*

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  • 13
    Chrome needs its RAM if it gonna spy on you efficiently I mean what.
  • 3
    What reader is this!?
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  • 1
    Thanks! I love RSS
  • 2
    Could you please add a publishing date to your RSS feed? Some RSS readers to bad things without one.
  • 3
    @chabad360 Dark RSS Reader (somehow it defaults to a white theme but eh..) You can find it on the Microsoft Store.
    @sbiewald Every item should have a publication date though? I've just added a placeholder date to the articles for the time being (can't tell anymore when I wrote what) but it should be there.. are you sure that your RSS reader supports the <pubDate> tag?
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    @Condor 2019-08-17T11:55
    Was a bit confused as all entries had the same date and time (the most RSS readers add the current time to entries without pubDate), but I definitely did not download the feed at 11:55.
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    @sbiewald Long live timezones I guess, lol.. I added Fri, 16 Aug 2019 09:55:49 GMT as the pubDate on all articles. Maybe time conversion got it to a point in the future. Maybe poke at the RSS reader's developer that it shouldn't go tits up on that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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    @Condor 11:55 is GMT + 2 so my RSS app adapted it to local time (GMT + 1 + daylight saving = GMT + 2).

    Sounds good.
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