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Help users understand Blog vs. Feed URLs in sign-up #3646

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humphd opened this issue Sep 6, 2022 · 7 comments
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Help users understand Blog vs. Feed URLs in sign-up #3646

humphd opened this issue Sep 6, 2022 · 7 comments
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area: front-end type: enhancement New feature or request

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@humphd
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humphd commented Sep 6, 2022

I was talking with Stefan today about the Telescope sign-up process, and I think we should do more to educate and clarify the difference between a Blog URL (HTML) and a Feed URL (XML). The sign-up process should do more to guide people as they do this, and use the opportunity to teach them what it means.

Probably doing something like adding a sentence or two that describes the difference in the sign-up UI would be enough.
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I have some issue, when I sign up, it asks for Blog URL.

When I paste this one https://dev.to/mnosov622/front-end-developer-roadmap-579m it says Unable to discover feeds.

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humphd commented Sep 7, 2022

OK, you've found a bug. Compare the <head> of a particular blog post vs. your blog's root:

The latter contains the expected feed URL info (i.e., <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 RSS Feed" href="https://dev.to/feed/mnosov622" />), but the former does not.

If you had pasted in https://dev.to/mnosov622 instead of https://dev.to/mnosov622/front-end-developer-roadmap-579m, it would have worked.

Now, we need to make it always work, since people won't necessarily understand the difference between:

The code for this lives in https://github.com/Seneca-CDOT/telescope/tree/master/src/api/feed-discovery. A first step would be to write a test case that fails for this particular case, and then figure out a solution that lets it pass.

@humphd humphd removed the good first issue Good for newcomers label Sep 7, 2022
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Oh, now I get. Thank you !

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humphd commented Sep 8, 2022

It's really our bug, not yours. We should fix this so it works in all cases.

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humphd commented Sep 10, 2022

A secondary problem we could fix in a separate PR is to deal with the comments feed from WordPress, which we never want:

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cychu42 commented Nov 9, 2022

Hi, I can try to add the description for the difference between a Blog URL (HTML) and a Feed URL (XML) for users to see.

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humphd commented Nov 9, 2022

Yup, go for it @cychu42

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