Subscribe Openly

About

Linking directly to a web feed like an RSS file on your website is not ideal for users.

Browsers like Firefox and Chrome will show the raw XML of your feed.

What if there was a better experience?

With Subscribe Openly, you can link to a URL that will show buttons for all the common feed readers.

When clicked, the button will take the user into a view that lets them subscribe to your feed in their preferred reader.

Here is an example.

How To

To use Subscribe Openly, add the following to any links to your web feed on your site:

https://subscribeopenly.net/subscribe/?url=YOUR_FEED_URL

Contribute

This project is open source on GitHub. Contributions are welcome!

Acknowledgements

This project was inspired by Share Openly, a site for sharing websites to open social platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky.

This project was also inspired by the call-to-action in A request for developers of feed reader apps and services.