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So I'm supposed to use the NYT's custom API to get articles when RSS has, for years, provided a "general" method for me to do the same thing for not only the NYT but millions of other sources?
Yes, and they want you to install a special 'NYT app' for that, which will be future: every company and news outlet will have its own app.
Way to support open source, guys!
Rss was just a transitional technology. Twitter and Facebook have made it far easier for normal people to get news updates, and for developers there are API's. RSS will live on for podcast delivery (at least until apple dropsre-invents" podcasting) but other than that, let's just let RSS rest in peace.
news in 140 chars ... reminds me of that movie where they water their plants with soda.
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You must have missed the memo where now almost anything you do on a computer is hacking. Got a form to submit in Django? I'm hacking. Got nodejs to run a sample app? I'm hacking. Integrate a shitty jQuery plugin? I'm hacking. RTFM - nope, hacking.
Ironically, you seem to have forgotten that "hack" is also a synonym for "kludge" -- long before programmers started referring to themselves as hackers as a term of pride and endearment, many writers were referred to as "hacks". I don't see any problem with referring to using a documented workaround as a "hack" in that context.
It is the straightforward and recommended way of doing something. Twitter didn't kill RSS, they just stopped advertising it to end users.
I have no interest in ever directly using Twitter and there's not enough content on there for me to bother with any workarounds. I currently use RSS for the one Twitter feed I bother to follow and if they ever really do get rid of RSS for their site, I'll just stop using even that. Not that much of a loss. My habits are such that if you don't offer RSS feeds of information I want, I probably won't ever get your infor…
If I can't read it in Reeder I properly wont read it at all. I don't know (or care) if it's a slow and outdated technology as it seems to work okay for me.
It doesn't benefit me at all if RSS disappears and is replaced with FB or Twitter. Sharing news? Sorry no, the signal to noise levels are already low and I don't need to pollute the internet any further (said the man who is writing a worthless post on HN :-) But I guess it's not meant to benefit me anyway. So RSS will properly die and I'll silently adopt to whatever replaces it.
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Yes, and they want you to install a special 'NYT app' for that, which will be future: every company and news outlet will have its own app.
haha, and they'll all be based on frontend UI accessing RSS.
/me added back the Page RSS feeds during a hackathon last year
On the other hand, reading facebook status or tweets is like listening or chatting with friends. Contents are impromptu and often out of context. However, it's much easier to interact.
* http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/19701628.rss title="BBC's Tweets" type="application/rss+xml" />
* http://twitter.com/favorites/19701628.rss title="BBC's Favorites" type="application/rss+xml" />