[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] RSS button for traces ignores before parameter (Issue #6562)

[袁立诚]

daishu0000 created an issue (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6562)

### Description
When clicking the **“traces/rss”** button near **“Update a trace”** , the link always opens:
>https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/rss

This happens regardless of the current `before` parameter in the URL.
As a result, it always shows the same XML feed containing the newest 20 traces.

This behavior causes two problems:

1. **For normal users**
They usually don’t want to open an XML page, and the page provides no useful information for them.
2. **For developers**
Developers often want to inspect how the parameters works in the RSS feed, but the current button does not preserve any parameters.

### Suggested improvements

**Option 1** — Preserve the before parameter

**Example**:
When a user is on:
>https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces?before=12117585

Clicking the RSS button should open:
>https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/rss?before=12117585

instead of:
>https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/rss

**Option 2** — Replace the button with a help/documentation page
Instead of opening raw XML, the button could link to a page to show how traces api works.

### The screenshot of the button
<img width="1898" height="452" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a44f47c0-c1fb-47b7-8732-48337413fe24" />

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