most podcast now requires rss, thanks for sharing this post
I Miss RSS
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Re: I Miss RSS
#192This topic comes up semi-frequently. I'm personally a fan of RSS but it certainly has issues: (For the purposes of this comment I'm mostly referring to Atom/ 1. RSS is, at the end of the day, a syndication format, _not_ a feedback or posting format. 2. RSS feeds have no real concept of portability between devices or user agents. Kludges like OPML can be used to aggregate feeds for sharing across user agents, but they…
For #3, you should have the relevant info on server side analytics just like for the web facade.
Anyway, the people reading your RSS will load every article. They aren't the ones setting the difference in popularity between the articles.
Re: I Miss RSS
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Email ads are more effective than RSS. The reader's email address is known (obviously!) and the content can be targeted individually. RSS is typically a single feed for everyone. Premium RSS is possible, with individual links per user, but it's much more complicated than just typing your email address into a field (something you already do when you pay for anything). Also, chances of the link being shared around is h…
You can mitigate link sharing by counting the feed reader hits per link (anything more than two standard deviations is probably a shared link, which you can set a revocation policy for). You can reject requests to content that don’t have a non-revoked referrer. This way, they can only get your content by copy-pasting content and rehosting the feed, which is an unavoidable risk. In any case, as Netflix’s early history…
You can, albeit with some effort involved, e.g. Ben Thomson has mentioned Stratechery does some kind of link counting like that with the podcast feed.
It's a good point that some amount of unauthorised sharing can be a positive. The main issue is it's hard to control without also having false positives, where the paying subscriber is annoyed by their service being revoked, having to re-auth, etc.
Re: I Miss RSS
#194When I see articles like this, my reaction is always: when did RSS go away? I have close to 200 sites in my Feedly list, and I have trouble keeping up with all the articles I get from RSS every day. I think that what the author really means is that he misses RSS feeds from Twitter. I don't use Twitter, so from my perspective, RSS is as present and useful as it was 20 years ago.
Active RSS user here till Google killed Reader.
I tried using Feedly last year. Added feeds and it was HORRIBLE experience. Not Feedly but the actual feeds.
Some of them give you the title and then tell you to go to actual website to read the article.
Others has a virtually non-existent summary.
During RSS's heydays I remember being able to just see the summary and click on it and read the article right there and then. Now these feeds try to push you back to the website hard. Making RSS feeds feel like a broken tool. With the content there mostly an after thought.
I think sites killed off RSS feeds.
Re: I Miss RSS
#195When I see articles like this, my reaction is always: when did RSS go away? I have close to 200 sites in my Feedly list, and I have trouble keeping up with all the articles I get from RSS every day. I think that what the author really means is that he misses RSS feeds from Twitter. I don't use Twitter, so from my perspective, RSS is as present and useful as it was 20 years ago.
I used to just have RSS feeds saved in my Firefox bookmarks. I didn't know Twitter had or has any sort of RSS feeds.
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Re: I Miss RSS
#196Since my browser removed the two-click feature for sending a site's feed URL to my RSS reader, I now do a bit more manual work to find RSS URLs myself. Twitter lost its native RSS support, but Nitter provides RSS links. Example: https://nitter.net/eff/rss Reddit provides RSS for most listings, including search results. All you have to do is append .rss to the path part of the URL. Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/ha…
I use a reader that automatically pulls feeds from Twitter and other social media like Reddit. Just need to plop the URL into the feed field and they figure it out. I pay for it, but it's pretty nice for getting back to the old Google Reader feel. ( https://bazcux.com )
bazqux.com not bazcux.
I am a happy customer as well!
Re: I Miss RSS
#197That's most certainly your problem
Re: I Miss RSS
#198When I see articles like this, my reaction is always: when did RSS go away? I have close to 200 sites in my Feedly list, and I have trouble keeping up with all the articles I get from RSS every day. I think that what the author really means is that he misses RSS feeds from Twitter. I don't use Twitter, so from my perspective, RSS is as present and useful as it was 20 years ago.
Exactly. I've never stopped using RSS. And if I look at follower counts on Feedly (which is just one RSS aggregator our of multiple options) I see tens of thousands of followers to many popular feeds. So there are many people who use RSS - probably millions. It didn't go away, some people chasing new shiny things like twitter did - they are always welcome to come back, it still works quite fine.
Re: I Miss RSS
#199When I see articles like this, my reaction is always: when did RSS go away? I have close to 200 sites in my Feedly list, and I have trouble keeping up with all the articles I get from RSS every day. I think that what the author really means is that he misses RSS feeds from Twitter. I don't use Twitter, so from my perspective, RSS is as present and useful as it was 20 years ago.
I missed getting everything from RSS. A couple years ago I built my own engine that could bring in twitter, reddit, here and a few other services that didn't have RSS feeds and published the results to river of news style flow with a few topic specific tributaries. Haven't used it in years but have been thinking about restarting it.
Re: I Miss RSS
#200We all do. But advertisers don’t. You can’t spam RSS with ads.