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I just love that Asian developers finally 'discovered' the English speaking FOSS community. A lot of the software I use and contribute to has gained many contributors from China, Singapore and Japan through the last 1-2 years. It really warms my heart to see that FOSS knows less and less borders :)
A plug for my own answer to this:
I recently launched https://aboutfeeds.com -- a one pager "getting started" guide aimed at first-time users of web feeds/RSS. The goal is to have it linked next to every "RSS subscribe" button out there.
I just love that Asian developers finally 'discovered' the English speaking FOSS community. A lot of the software I use and contribute to has gained many contributors from China, Singapore and Japan through the last 1-2 years. It really warms my heart to see that FOSS knows less and less borders :)
I’m curious: why is this using RSS? RSS is uniformly technically inferior to Atom, and all feed reader apps that I know of support Atom, and libraries are available for both (some RSS-only, some Atom-only, some general). The only place I’d ever use RSS now is podcast feeds, because podcast feeds haven’t caught up up with 2007 yet.
I'm pleased to see renewed interest in RSS (web feeds generally). But my concern is that, for first time users, the onboarding process is too complex. There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear. A plug for my own answer to this: I recently launched https://aboutfeeds.com -- a one pager "getting started" guide aimed at first-time users of web feeds/RSS. The goal is to have it linked next to eve…
I have genuinely found that open source projects by people with anime girls as their profile pic tend to be excellent
I have genuinely found that open source projects by people with anime girls as their profile pic tend to be excellent
I'm pleased to see renewed interest in RSS (web feeds generally). But my concern is that, for first time users, the onboarding process is too complex. There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear. A plug for my own answer to this: I recently launched https://aboutfeeds.com -- a one pager "getting started" guide aimed at first-time users of web feeds/RSS. The goal is to have it linked next to eve…
Hey, looks like you had a very similar idea to me! https://www.youneedfeeds.com/ Though you've gone for the 'simple one-pager' approach where I tried to sell people on it via a full site. I was going to do a visual revamp sometime soon, hopefully include more readers etc but time has been an issue.
We both opted for "web feeds" over "RSS", which makes me feel better about that choice.
Do you have any sense of whether you've been able to reach new users? It's going to take a lot of effort from us and people like us, I think.
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Hey, looks like you had a very similar idea to me! https://www.youneedfeeds.com/ Though you've gone for the 'simple one-pager' approach where I tried to sell people on it via a full site. I was going to do a visual revamp sometime soon, hopefully include more readers etc but time has been an issue.
This is great! I especially love the starter packs. We both opted for "web feeds" over "RSS", which makes me feel better about that choice. Do you have any sense of whether you've been able to reach new users? It's going to take a lot of effort from us and people like us, I think.