Occasionally I run into a site that links directly to an XML file in their RSS/Atom links. Browsers don't intuitively handle these links; my ideal experience is to go directly into my web reader.

Subscribe Openly takes a web feed URL and creates a pretty page with direct links to several web readers (suggestions of more to add are welcome) [1].

You can then link to this page instead of directly to an XML link. As a fallback, the XML link will appear on the Subscribe Openly page.

I hope web readers become more integrated with browsers again, but for now I'm sure there are still things we can do to improve the experience of encountering feed links. [2]

The code is open source: https:// github.com/capjamesg/subscribe-openly/

[1]: Example: https://subscribeopenly.net/subscribe/?url=https://jamesg.bl...