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We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

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Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

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Post by al_borland »

smusamashah wrote: post #235
al_borland wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to wonder if it just never caught on with the mainstream as average users didn't really get it? Apple went so far as to name a release of their browser, "Safari RSS" [1]. Even with this level of focus from Apple, I never really heard anyone talk about it or start using it. Those who already used RSS had better readers, and those who didn't use RSS never really saw the value with this implementation. [1] https:…

Having an RSS indicator in the URL bar used to be the first step to subscribing a feed. How do you get it if its not there. When a feature is removed, slowly everyone will forget that it was even a thing once. Opera (my main browser back then) use to have so much stuff built in (RSS, email, IRC, note taking, mouse gestures). Chrome use to have a resizable extension bar recently. OneNote use to have a more colorful an…

“Computers now instantly boot up when plugged into the wall”

Apple has done this with their laptops. When you plug them in, open the laptop, or press any key on the keyboard, they boot up.

I shut mine down to clean over the keyboard area and it kept booting up on me. It was extremely frustrating and there is no setting to simply turn it off.

I found this…

“Press and hold the left Control and Command buttons with the right Shift button for a total of 7 seconds. Without releasing them, press the Power button and hold them all together for an additional 7 seconds. Your Mac can only be powered on by using the Power button.”

I haven’t tried it, but it apparently only works as a one-off, so this silly process would need to be done each time the user wants the system to stay off.

Considering the laptops still have a power button, this seems crazy to me. Maybe they are preparing to remove it.

Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

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Post by Gud »

culi wrote: post #165
listmaking wrote: post #153

This is hilarious big-company shit, that engineer on Chrome devrel team finds it easier to actually just write his own unofficial RSS feed-generator and make it public [1] — the feed for this blog is at [2] — than for the "Internal issues have been filed with the DevSite team" to get worked on [3]. And who knows when this will rise to a priority for that team? In the old Google, it would have been easier for anyone t…

when roughly would you place the "old Google" turning point?

October 23, 2000. The day Google went from being a search engine to being an advertisement company.

I know they still dabble in search but that’s not the point.

http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2000/10/google-launches-self...

Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

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Post by einpoklum »

rchaud wrote: post #210
einpoklum wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As I can no longer watch yt without getting annoyed uBlock Origin + EFF Privacy Badger should take care of it. I've never seen any ads on YouTube (except the ones the stream includes inherently).

It's unusably slow on desktop Firefox with UBO active. This was not the case for a long time. They're degrading the experience on non-Chrome browsers intentionally.

I'm not experiencing that. Granted, I have 16 GB of RAM, and browsers are memory hogs, but my CPU is a Core i5-7600K with no overclocking, so not something super-strong.

Are you sure your experience is common rather than anecdotal?

Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

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Post by tech234a »

It's worth noting that this new site replaces one that was just 3 years old, released in December 2020, here's the announcement of that version of the site: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/welcome

Loss of the ability to contribute via GitHub pull request is unfortunate, hopefully there will be a better way to contribute again in the future.

Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

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Post by thatoneguy »

BHSPitMonkey wrote: post #236
thatoneguy wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I quit in 2015 because the place was becoming like any other big company and I’d already been there for a decade. Larry becoming CEO in 2011 again probably started it…once he took the helm, Google soon got really concerned about expenses, likely because his net worth was tied to pleasing Wall Street. CFO Pichette left and bean-counting CFO Porat got hired who came from Morgan Stanley with a mandate to cut expenses. A…

Are you saying Reader was killed to funnel people into Google+?

It was killed I think because it was a “distraction”. Can’t have two social networks at the same time, unlike messaging services and plenty of other Google products, apparently.

I don’t think it was ever staffed heavily (and that long piece on the product released earlier this year will attest to that) but if Google was going to go “all-in” on social, then to some leaders, everything else that might seem like a half-measure had to die.

It’s why it was killed despite what felt like half the company being willing to volunteer to keep it running.

Old Google would’ve let it live and let folks in their 20% time keep it running.

Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

Solution found.

   curl -sA "" https://developer.chrome.com/blog/sitemap.xml \
   |sed -n '
   1i\
   \
   \
   
   s}\(\)\(.*\)\(\)}\
   \
   \2\
   \2\
   \2\
   }p;
   $a\
   \
   
   '
If this isn't correct RSS, please forgive me. I'm not an "engineer". I prefer a personalised, simple HTML made from URLs as opposed to XML. I write filters to generate this in C.

NB. The public sitemap.xml still refers to an (unofficial?) RSS feed.

Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

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Post by outofpaper »

latexr wrote: post #166
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And since then, the other browsers have removed their native RSS/Atom feed support. Firefox and Safari both used to have it and have since removed it. Visiting an RSS feed in Safari now shows you a page that resembles a 404, telling you that Safari no longer supports feeds.

> Visiting an RSS feed in Safari now shows you a page that resembles a 404, telling you that Safari no longer supports feeds. For me it shows an alert asking if I want to subscribe in my installed feed reader.

It's both odd and appalling.

Safari "development" is such an odd bag of changes. I sill miss the old dashboard widget maker that let you select a section of just about any page and use it as a widget.

Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

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Post by rabbits_2002 »

kinlan wrote: post #133

Hey all, I lead the team that runs this site. We moved our site to a different infrastructure that doesn't support the automatic generation of RSS feeds. I'm painfully aware that this isn't the best solution right now. I needed our team to hit a deadline for migrating all the content to the new system, and then manage cleanup of known missing functionality after. We are working on making sure this lands asap. Paul

Any somewhat competent programmer can create a working RSS feed in an hour. What the hell is happening at Google?
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