I really went down the rabbit hole on this one: I was working on a side project that has an RSS feed and I want people to use it, so I made the link be first & prominent. But the user experience was abysmal! A wall of gibberish text. So… Feed.style! A quick and easy way for an RSS link to do something reasonable for newbies (and non-newbies!).<p>Of course, being the attention hound that I am, I went through HN’s karma leaders to see what their feed UX was like, figuring I’d call out a few people to get some attention & upvotes. But wow, what a sorry bunch. Finding issues is like shooting fish in a barrel.<p>Before I begin, a shout out: ColinWright, you are literally the only one with decent-looking feed. Way to go! Everybody else, well, let’s just say there is room for improvement. I made some before & (potential) after links in the example section on the Feed.style home page.<p>So, on with naming & shaming: tptacek/fly.io (bad self link, no discovery link), jacquesm (bad self link), davewiner (no self link), danso (insecure self link), tosh (self link mismatch, though it does work), luu (bad self link)...<p>And the internet elders? Worst of all. If there could be one way of dealing with news feeds worse than a wall of text, what would it be? Popping up the “Save as…” dialog. I’m looking at you: mnot, tbray, jgrahamc, aphyr, thomaspark… Seriously, it doesn’t matter if you use the standard content type if it makes the UX this unfriendly. And yes, I’m using Firefox: aren’t you?<p>On a serious note: I am a big fan of RSS & think it has a ton of potential, but we have to do better or it will remain a geeks-only sideshow.