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RSS feeds your head!

Bet you didn’t know that well over 50 per cent of the requests seen by LinkBag are for RSS feeds! That means that users cruising around our site with browsers are actually in the minority when it comes down to pure traffic. Instead, our heaviest resource users include personalized home pages and desktop news aggregators.

With that in mind, it makes sense to remember that even the smallest changes can have a really big impact. Thus, given that our feeds have been doing a decent job this far, they haven’t changed much from their simple beginnings.

Decent isn’t perfect, though. So, our team’s been working on some small improvements. We’ve been looking into how our feeds are used and how to better streamline and present our information in different contexts. These improvements include features like:

• Offering the ability to save bookmarks straight from your feed reader.
• Building more useful feed content with links to people, tags, and more bookmark details;
• Providing more metadata where it seems useful, or less where it appears redundant.

And, this is just the start. We’re putting out these changes gradually, on a per-user basis, and we’re planning for more. So, if you don’t see any improvements in your favourite feed reader yet—or if the changes haven’t quite hit their mark for you—be sure to contact us and let us know!