<div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; white-space: pre-wrap; align-items: center; "><img height="20" width="20" style="border-radius:50%; margin-right: 4px;" decoding="async" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/139955621?s=20&v=4" /><strong>daishu0000</strong> created an issue <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/6562">(openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6562)</a></div>
<h3 dir="auto">Description</h3>
<p dir="auto">When clicking the <strong>“traces/rss”</strong> button near <strong>“Update a trace”</strong> , the link always opens:</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/rss" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/rss</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">This happens regardless of the current <code class="notranslate">before</code> parameter in the URL.<br>
As a result, it always shows the same XML feed containing the newest 20 traces.</p>
<p dir="auto">This behavior causes two problems:</p>
<ol dir="auto">
<li><strong>For normal users</strong><br>
They usually don’t want to open an XML page, and the page provides no useful information for them.</li>
<li><strong>For developers</strong><br>
Developers often want to inspect how the parameters works in the RSS feed, but the current button does not preserve any parameters.</li>
</ol>
<h3 dir="auto">Suggested improvements</h3>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Option 1</strong> — Preserve the before parameter</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Example</strong>:<br>
When a user is on:</p>
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<p dir="auto"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces?before=12117585" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces?before=12117585</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Clicking the RSS button should open:</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/rss?before=12117585" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/rss?before=12117585</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">instead of:</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/rss" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/rss</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Option 2</strong> — Replace the button with a help/documentation page<br>
Instead of opening raw XML, the button could link to a page to show how traces api works.</p>
<h3 dir="auto">The screenshot of the button</h3>
<a href="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a44f47c0-c1fb-47b7-8732-48337413fe24">image.png (view on web)</a>

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