# RSS / Atomto follow people publications **URL:** \ **Category:** Feedback\ **Created:** [April 21, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667 "2018-04-21T12:40:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![severo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/severo/32/786_2.png) [@severo](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/severo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/1 "2018-04-21T12:40:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![tom](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/tom/32/2262_2.png) [@tom](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/tom)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/2 "2018-04-28T17:59:23Z")
Sure, that’d be great! We’ll probably first implement being able to follow specific people with [push notifications](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/push-notifications/), because, alas so many people have abandoned Atom/RSS 😕 but this would be a great follow-up. ---
**Author:** ![sorig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/sorig/32/662_2.png) [@sorig](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/sorig)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/3 "2018-05-02T13:19:40Z")
Do you have actual data to support this? I don’t, but it seems to me that things might be changing (e.g [this article](https://www.wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader-old-reader/)). 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 users’ 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. ---
**Author:** ![mbostock](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mbostock/32/9_2.png) [@mbostock](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mbostock)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/4 "2018-05-02T14:37:42Z")
@sorig, please be patient. We’re planning on supporting Atom/RSS, and we’ll ship it as soon as it’s ready. ---
**Author:** ![sorig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/sorig/32/662_2.png) [@sorig](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/sorig)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/5 "2018-05-02T14:52:47Z")
Great, thanks Mike! I was just worried that it was far down your priority list compared to push notifications. ---
**Author:** ![mbostock](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mbostock/32/9_2.png) [@mbostock](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mbostock)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/6 "2018-05-04T21:32:05Z")
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](https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock) And my RSS feed is: [https://api.observablehq.com/documents/@mbostock.rss](https://api.observablehq.com/documents/@mbostock.rss) ---
**Author:** ![severo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/severo/32/786_2.png) [@severo](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/severo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2018, 10:01pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/7 "2018-05-04T22:01:06Z")
Thank you very much. Good work, you are too fast! ---
**Author:** ![j-f1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/j-f1/32/368_2.png) [@j-f1](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/j-f1)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/8 "2019-05-22T02:16:16Z")
Would it be possible to add collection RSS feeds too? I’d like to be able to follow the latest notebooks added to a couple of collections. ---
**Author:** ![mbostock](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mbostock/32/9_2.png) [@mbostock](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mbostock)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/9 "2019-05-23T20:22:25Z")
RSS for collections is now live. Thank you for the suggestion! Here is an example feed: [https://api.observablehq.com/collection/@d3/d3-array.rss](https://api.observablehq.com/collection/@d3/d3-array.rss) ---
**Author:** ![j-f1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/j-f1/32/368_2.png) [@j-f1](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/j-f1)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/10 "2019-05-23T22:04:36Z")
Thank you so much! ---
**Author:** ![Evan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/evan/32/276_2.png) [@Evan](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/Evan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/11 "2019-05-24T13:07:12Z")
This is great! I was just thinking this was a feature I wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Fil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/fil/32/207_2.png) [@Fil](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/Fil)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/12 "2019-06-03T15:20:57Z")
Is it discoverable? With my old (but usually trustable) Reeder, it doesn’t look like it gets the feed’s url from profile nor collection. Inspecting the source doesn’t show the usual `` either. ![37](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/observablehq/original/2X/4/42a6ba4c72b117ae79b4fa817c4554b47cf22d98.png) ---
**Author:** ![mootari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mootari/32/581_2.png) [@mootari](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mootari)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/13 "2019-06-03T19:49:04Z")
> [@Fil](#): > > Inspecting the source doesn’t show the usual `` either. Dynamically added, it seems: ![obs-rss](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/observablehq/original/2X/8/82a43cd9d8a8d4ba07e618ec212e5f8e74f21863.png) ---
**Author:** ![tom](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/tom/32/2262_2.png) [@tom](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/tom)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/14 "2019-06-03T19:52:37Z")
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 won’t see the SSR result. ---
**Author:** ![mootari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mootari/32/581_2.png) [@mootari](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mootari)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/15 "2019-06-03T20:02:50Z")
Any chance you might allow cross origin requests for .rss paths, for some sweet, sweet, notebook based syndication? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mbrownshoes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mbrownshoes/32/423_2.png) [@mbrownshoes](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mbrownshoes)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/16 "2019-07-18T17:01:25Z")
Just curious what folks are using for an RSS reader. Haven’t used one before but looking for something simple that would notify me when an author I follow publishes something. Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![mbrownshoes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mbrownshoes/32/423_2.png) [@mbrownshoes](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mbrownshoes)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/17 "2019-07-18T17:42:05Z")
It would be really awesome if there was an alert system similar to here ([talk.observablehq.com](http://talk.observablehq.com)) with notifications under our profile icon… where you would see a list of recent notebooks by authors you follow. ---
**Author:** ![j-f1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/j-f1/32/368_2.png) [@j-f1](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/j-f1)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/18 "2019-07-18T19:02:19Z")
I’m using Feedly but it doesn’t do push notifications. The Newsify app does, though. ---
**Author:** ![mootari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mootari/32/581_2.png) [@mootari](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mootari)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/rss-atomto-follow-people-publications/667/19 "2019-08-10T18:57:47Z")
> [@mootari](#): > > Any chance you might allow cross origin requests for .rss paths, for some sweet, sweet, notebook based syndication? 😃 I’d like to bump this. Is anonymous CORS for these resources something you’d be willing to implement?