Hi,
I would love being able to follow the last notebooks of someone on Observable. One possibility would be to publish a RSS/Atom file for every user page. Other would be more advanced: an option to follow someone, and then a tab in my account to see all the last posts, with also RSS/Atom on this page.
Sure, thatād be great! Weāll probably first implement being able to follow specific people with push notifications, because, alas so many people have abandoned Atom/RSS 
but this would be a great follow-up.
Do you have actual data to support this? I donāt, but it seems to me that things might be changing (e.g this article). Atom/RSS are great standards that give users control of their own information consumption. The design pattern of push notifications is flawed and is arguably damaging to usersā well-being in many cases. I love Observable but I would love it even more if you guys took an informed stance on issues like this one.
@sorig, please be patient. Weāre planning on supporting Atom/RSS, and weāll ship it as soon as itās ready.
Great, thanks Mike! I was just worried that it was far down your priority list compared to push notifications.
RSS feeds for authors are live! You should be able to paste a profile URL into your preferred feed reader to subscribe. For example, my profile is:
https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock
And my RSS feed is:
Thank you very much. Good work, you are too fast!
Would it be possible to add collection RSS feeds too? Iād like to be able to follow the latest notebooks added to a couple of collections.
RSS for collections is now live. Thank you for the suggestion! Here is an example feed:
Thank you so much!
This is great! I was just thinking this was a feature I wanted.
Is it discoverable? With my old (but usually trustable) Reeder, it doesnāt look like it gets the feedās url from profile nor collection. Inspecting the source doesnāt show the usual <linkā¦> either.
The link is updated, so adding RSS from user profiles should work again. We server-render the pages for anonymous visitors only, so if you open developer tools on a logged-in page, you wonāt see the SSR result.
Any chance you might allow cross origin requests for .rss paths, for some sweet, sweet, notebook based syndication? 
Just curious what folks are using for an RSS reader. Havenāt used one before but looking for something simple that would notify me when an author I follow publishes something. Cheers.
It would be really awesome if there was an alert system similar to here (talk.observablehq.com) with notifications under our profile iconā¦ where you would see a list of recent notebooks by authors you follow.
Iām using Feedly but it doesnāt do push notifications. The Newsify app does, though.
Iād like to bump this. Is anonymous CORS for these resources something youād be willing to implement?
