This is ridiculous. First of all what about the ATOM format? I don't think it's dying.
Anyway, why not simply have an RSS plugin / extension as some have suggested? You can do this in all the browsers.
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#112Recently Flipboard added a Google Reader section. I've started using this and never turned back. It solves perfectly pretty much every problem with RSS via attractive presentation, quick access to full content, social connectivity, and getting rid of the "inbox feel".
Like a few others here, I look at RSS in the morning. As it turns out, what I really wanted was a sort of newspaper/magazine format. Flipboard delivers that perfectly.
Re: RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried
#113RSS is a tool for technologists. The average user will not find it attractive enough, so RSS will always be used by the minority. This does not necessarily make it a dying technology however.
Re: RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried
#114Change the RSS button for a 'Follow' button.
Re: RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried
#115Okay, I haven't really used RSS before. I'm diving in. In Safari Version 5.0.3 (6533.19.4), I view all of the RSS Feeds by choosing the following (buried) menu item: Bookmarks > Bookmarks Bar > View All RSS Articles I can't find a "View All RSS Articles" button. By default, I hide the "Bookmarks Bar" toolbar (because I want as much vertical screen real estate as I can get.) The "View All RSS Articles" item does not a…
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Re: RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried
#116RSS brings me 90% of my outside information. And by doing it with programs like Reeder that use Google Reader to sync the feeds and what's been read allow me to do it on 3 computers, an iphone, and an ipad without ever seeing the same junk twice
But, it does require some computer savvy to setup and operate. You need programs, you need to sometimes figure out your feed URL's. Good reader has a really weird and lousy interface.
As a computer guy I don't care, but I rarely recommend it to even medium tech savvy friends because I don't see them dealing.
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#117From the user flow, RSS doesn't make much sense. Clicking an RSS button shows you the same thing you just looked at, except without the site design and only partial content (Safari). Currently, in Chrome, I just see a dense block of text. RSS is an amazing tool, but maybe we just haven't found the right UI for it yet. Exposing it in the browser doesn't work very well and treating RSS as an Inbox (like Google Reader)…
"RSS is an amazing tool, but maybe we just haven't found the right UI for it yet. Exposing it in the browser doesn't work very well and treating RSS as an Inbox (like Google Reader) where every item needs to be marked as read is too overwhelming."
I think we're looking at half a 'system' here. Userland software also putout a publishing system called "Radio" to go along with the "Syndication" mechanism. So I think the community solution here is to finish that loop and start thinking of forward layer 'radios' that provide 'channels' that filter/aggregate RSS feeds.
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#118RSS is the pipe, its not a solution. Your average joe doesn't "know" what TCP/IP is and frankly its the same for RSS. Something needs to sit at either end and actually make use of the RSS "pipe".
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#119I want to read my RSS feeds like a newspaper. I think formatting is really the issue. I don't necessarily want a list of links.
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#120If there was really enough demand for RSS, it wouldn't die.
How can there be demand if nobody is making it easy to use?
It seems like the incentive is missing. Browser developers have to prioritize what users use and what they know how to use. The author made the point that very few people even know what RSS is, and I think it's the content deliverers' responsibility to make users aware of that feature; there's only so much a browser can do to help with that.