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Re: I Miss RSS

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SamWhited wrote: post #258
karaterobot wrote: post #82

When 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 also still use RSS and have several hundred subscriptions, but the OP isn't wrong and it's far more pervasive than just Twitter. One of the biggest ones for me is that Spotify is buying up podcasts that previously did have an RSS feed and then removing the feed, for example. Other services are doing the same. For another example, when Bloomberg bought City Lab recently they removed the RSS feed. I've had this happe…

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Re: I Miss RSS

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ajot wrote: post #260
karaterobot wrote: post #82

When 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 think that what the author really means is that he misses RSS feeds from Twitter. I get RSS for some Twitter accounts via a Nitter instance. Sadly, some institutions and people only spread news via Twitter.

Nope. I do not care about RSS feeds from Twitter. That was an example.

Re: I Miss RSS

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kevincox wrote: post #245
a2800276 wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also surprised no one has pointed out the irony that the author's blog doesn't have an RSS feed. That would be the least you could do to keep it around.

There are three feeds referenced from that page: - Forum activity ( https://www.wilcosky.com/atom ) - Forum's new discussions ( https://www.wilcosky.com/atom/discussions ) - This discussion ( https://www.wilcosky.com/atom/d/20-i-miss-rss ) Of course these days browsers don't indicate that browsers are available. You will need an extension to detect feeds. (Or paste the site in your feed reader and hope it does, most…

Yes. That’s part of the point. Browsers should better auto detect that I have multiple feeds.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Nicksil wrote: post #57
paxys wrote: post #48

The author paints it as some kind of conspiracy, but the simple truth is that RSS waned in popularity once push notifications became popular and widespread. Every user's RSS reader polling every website for changes every few minutes for all eternity is horribly inefficient and unfeasible to do on most platforms and devices today (especially on mobile). Pub/sub is the clear way forward, but it's just sad that there is…

>The author paints it as some kind of conspiracy, but the simple truth is that RSS waned in popularity once push notifications became popular and widespread. Every user's RSS reader polling every website for changes every few minutes for all eternity is horribly inefficient and unfeasible to do on most platforms and devices today. Pub/sub is the clear way forward, but it's just sad that there is no accepted standard…

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