Back to the Future with RSS
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Back to the Future with RSS
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Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#2I'm glad I'm not the only one doing this. RSS can make a comeback, but it's going to take a little education. I use a "you probably already use this" framing by connecting it to podcasts.
Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#3I love RSS, hope it makes a resurgence. But I don't think the only reason for the death of RSS was the discontinuation of Google Reader.
RSS can become very messy super quickly, and I think we need clients that don't look like the ones we know from 15 years ago, but ones that help users to keep their subscriptions neat and clean.
Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#4I recently added an RSS feed to my personal blog, hosted on github pages, and I was astonished at just how easy it is. I wish all of my friends just had blogs and RSS feeds instead of Facebook or Instagram accounts.
Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#5If you're interested in furthering RSS (and Atom, JSON Feed) - one way to help this along is to continue extending it to bring it modern. For instance, I've documented an extension for adding temporary 'status' to the feed - useful for pinned posts or broadcasting that a livestream is beginning.
https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/wiki/RSS-Atom-Exten...
It feels like there is still a lot of room to extend these formats - part of the advantage to them is how easily they can be extended. The media enclosure extension is the reason they've been so useful for podcast subscriptions.
Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#6I love RSS, hope it makes a resurgence. But I don't think the only reason for the death of RSS was the discontinuation of Google Reader. RSS can become very messy super quickly, and I think we need clients that don't look like the ones we know from 15 years ago, but ones that help users to keep their subscriptions neat and clean.
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Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#7If you're interested in furthering RSS (and Atom, JSON Feed) - one way to help this along is to continue extending it to bring it modern. For instance, I've documented an extension for adding temporary 'status' to the feed - useful for pinned posts or broadcasting that a livestream is beginning. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/wiki/RSS-Atom-Exten... It feels like there is still a lot of room to extend these…
It seems like a weird approach when the ActivityStreams spec is getting a lot more traction and semi-official endorsement.
Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#8If you're interested in furthering RSS (and Atom, JSON Feed) - one way to help this along is to continue extending it to bring it modern. For instance, I've documented an extension for adding temporary 'status' to the feed - useful for pinned posts or broadcasting that a livestream is beginning. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/wiki/RSS-Atom-Exten... It feels like there is still a lot of room to extend these…
It seems like a weird approach when the ActivityStreams spec is getting a lot more traction and semi-official endorsement.
Is there any implementation that doesn't require a server-side component? One big appeal of RSS is it's plain old XML that can come from anything over HTTP.
Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems like a weird approach when the ActivityStreams spec is getting a lot more traction and semi-official endorsement.
Is there any implementation that doesn't require a server-side component? One big appeal of RSS is it's plain old XML that can come from anything over HTTP.
ActivityPub is the part that requires server-side logic. ActivityStreams is a more basic layer that can be entirely static or even serverless, and ActivityPub is built on it.
Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#10What would it take to get Firefox to support RSS again? With support I mean:
1. To detect RSS feeds and show an icon in the UI
2. Render RSS files, so they look better than raw text
3. Link that UI icon to a subscribe function: Show a configurable list of RSS Readers and send the feed to the subscribe URL of the selected one.
This can already be added with extensions, but it would boost RSS adoption if it were a default feature. And thus support the official mission of Mozilla.
Would mozilla block it if a RSS advocate group would provide the development work to get this back into the browser? Is there a technical issue, like that there is no fitting RSS/XML parser that can be used?