“We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
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Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
#2Seems slightly ironic that the hashtag #RSSaintdead hasn't been used since 2015
Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
#3I wish that government entities used it, or at least released a changelog for certain pages. Following coronavirus guideline updates in Berlin has been very difficult.
For now I use Wachete to achieve this.
Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
#4I wish that government entities used it, or at least released a changelog for certain pages. Following coronavirus guideline updates in Berlin has been very difficult. For now I use Wachete to achieve this.
This is one of those things where I would have expected the opposite in your country vs the US, my country. Here pretty much everything important has an RSS feed. The Internal Revenue Service, Health and Human Services, even my local news.
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#5I discovered this post by RSS.
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#6As much as I pine for the days when RSS was ubiquitous, I trust them to have the access logs to conclude that nobody is using their RSS feed.
Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
#7Seems slightly ironic that the hashtag #RSSaintdead hasn't been used since 2015
Is it? The idea of RSS was to escape complicated, centralizing, proprietary platforms like twitter. In order to read the post in this discussion's twitter link I'd have to execute their code on my machine. There's no way to access twitter via text.
I certainly hope that most RSS users are shying away from such a terrible platform.
Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
#8Seems slightly ironic that the hashtag #RSSaintdead hasn't been used since 2015
Is it? The idea of RSS was to escape complicated, centralizing, proprietary platforms like twitter. In order to read the post in this discussion's twitter link I'd have to execute their code on my machine. There's no way to access twitter via text. I certainly hope that most RSS users are shying away from such a terrible platform.
This highlights, in an interesting way, one of the downsides to RSS as a technology in the era of centralized services. Really, of all decentralized services in the era of centralized services.
When you want to make a pitch to somebody that RSS is valuable, you don't have direct statistics on its global use. You can pull access logs for your own servers, but if you're trying to justify to a boss the investment of setting up an RSS service where you don't have one already, you're going to have to use someone's proxy numbers on how popular it is.
Meanwhile, Twitter's access logs are a direct signal on the popularity of Twitter. Their story for telling potential investors how many users they have is very short.
Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
#9Obsolete?! Replaced by what?!?!?!? I think obsolescence implies replacement!
Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”
#10As much as I pine for the days when RSS was ubiquitous, I trust them to have the access logs to conclude that nobody is using their RSS feed.
Defining a demographics.