Lykhari now has RSS
Every blog on Lykhari has a feed now, at yourblog.com/rss.xml. You'll also find the link in your settings page.
If RSS is new to you: it's a small file your blog keeps up to date automatically, with the full text of your posts, newest first. Feed readers like Feedly, NetNewsWire, or Reeder check that file every so often and pull in anything new. No algorithm decides who sees your writing. No platform sits between you and the reader. If someone subscribes, they get your posts, full stop.
A few reasons this is worth having:
- People who don't want another newsletter or another login. They add your feed once, in whatever reader they already use, and never miss a post.
- You don't depend on any one platform. If a social app changes its algorithm tomorrow, your subscribers still get your writing. The feed is yours.
- It travels. Podcast apps, read-later tools, and personal automations (IFTTT, Zapier, and the like) can all watch a feed and do something with new posts, no extra setup on your end.
- It helps search too. Search engines follow the same links your feed publishes, so new posts often get found and indexed faster than if they were sitting behind a page a crawler has to stumble onto.
- Small blog communities still run on it. A lot of the blogrolls, "planets," and directories writers use to find each other only work with sites that have a real feed.
Honestly, RSS is one of those things that predates almost everything else on the web and never really needed replacing. It's quiet, it's simple, and it puts the reader in charge instead of a feed algorithm. That felt like the right fit for Lykhari.
Go check your settings page for your link, or just visit yourblog.com/rss.xml directly.