RSS and IRC I think have that timeless quality that may mean that it will not die
out, and hopefully have perennial resurgences. Not just the irritation of FB style
notifications and dark patterns, but also speed and uniform customisation play a
role. Why let FB guess what I want to see if I know which I need to see to be ha
ppy/productive/nonnarcissist?
Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#252My lousy one never let it go. RSS is a protocol, not something that depends on Web readers, browser extensions, native app, whatever.
Each one should use whatever they feel like, and I never understood the drama around Google's reader.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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Depends. The ESPN app is actually pretty shit. On my Smart TV it is a juddering, frame dropping mess. I actually get better streams by opening the ESPN site in Chrome, and casting the tab.
All Smart TVs suck except the ones with integrated Roku.
It’s not the TV. I stream 4k60 from YouTube quite happily.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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Is there a way to auto-reject "show you notifications"? I don't ever see myself saying "Allow" to that pop-up.
Firefox has the option to "block new requests asking to allow notifications". Just check under Preferences > Privacy & Security > Permissions.
Most sites will show a custom box first, and only if you agree to that box, will they ask the browser to enable notifications. They do it so that they can ask you again if you deny, because responding “deny” to the real browser prompt blocks any future attempts.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#255Twitter, Facebook and Reddit have become the new RSS readers for the masses. I get it, having an open distributed web would be a great thing but that ship has sailed, walled gardens are the new web for 99% of internet users. If your blog post is interesting enough to get picked up and shared via social networks, people will see it in their feed and hop over to view your post. After someone has finished scrolling down…
Hypothesis: most users on social media wouldn't publish or share content, let alone leverage RSS, if those platforms didn't exist.
Social media emerged alongside existing technologies. And they attracted a whole new audience. Of course, there's been a migration from former self hosted users towards those social media.
An apt comparison is IRC. It existed for decades now, but the concept of an office group chat never quite got successfully poured into a business model until Slack came around. Organisations using Slack didn't necessarily shift away from IRC or other options. They simply didn't use chat until they jumped on the Slack bandwagon.
I do recall criticisms when GR was unveiled: why use a centralised online service in order to consume a distributed network of content? At that point, GR did overtake the market of RSS clients.
Axing GR was the exact turning point for RSS as that happened exactly during the meteoric rise of social media, leaving many with little alternative to turn towards social media. Remember that at that point, Big Tech was perceived as the "Good Guys" and many touted that this was just the natural state of affairs.
I used to be a heavy RSS user, but when GR got axed, that pretty much fell away overnight. I never quite got back to using RSS via an alternative.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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I have heard it said that normal people don't use RSS but many power users still do. I'm now on Netnewswire 5: https://nnw.ranchero.com/ and write a blog: http://jakeseliger.com that includes a lot of link posts. I still use RSS for all the original reasons, even if most of my friends look puzzled by the acronym "RSS." RSS still solves the "too many sites, too little time" problem extremely well, especially for occas…
Has NNW fixed the problem where the cache grows to several dozen gigs? If you're not sure, you may want to check to see how large your cache is.
Are you talking about the old version, the beta of the completely rewritten version, or the final release that was released 2 days ago?
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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And many times have I thought that Pocket should also be in an extension and wondered why Mozilla is taking on the first party responsibility for it - maybe they get some partnership money?
Mozilla owns Pocket.
And yet the server-side part is still closed-source.
Mozilla's manifesto is just marketing now — it's obvious they don't really believe it any more.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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The relevance is that you said > Nobody did use them though. They belong in an extension, it's the perfect use case. [...] every single unused line of code, let alone an entire feature, adds a maintenance, security, documentation and testing burden. And the same holds true for Pocket.
It's not the same thing. At all. Pocket is used by people and is a feature Mozilla want to prominently integrate with Firefox. This is due to the financial gains they directly get when someone signs up for Pocket premium. It's not an unused, dusty feature that's adding a burden to the platform and is a net time + money sink. It's something that makes them money . As I said, in the comment you just replied to, even if…
Pocket directly competes against the open web (in the form of RSS/Atom). If Mozilla was a values-based organisation they would be promoting the open web at least as much as they promote their own proprietary system.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#259I completely agree with this sentiment. Mastodon, or whatever, is fine but RSS is the backbone of blogging. It always annoys me when sites request permissions to send me notifications - hey idiots, if I like your site I'll subscribe using your RSS feed and read at my pleasure. You don't have one? Bye then. In my perfect world browsers have RSS support built in and aggregators like Facebook would allow RSS feeds to be…
Just a heads up, it's great to have an RSS feed, but readers won't automatically detect that you have one. I see you already have a link to your RSS feed so if you put this
RSS
You can also use a meta tag instead if you'd prefer not to display a link. More information can be found over MDN[0] and I also created a blog post on the 5 most important things all blogs should do.[1]
[0]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/RSS/Getting...
[1]https://michaelbrooks.co.uk/5-important-things-i-learnt-when...
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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The biggest problem with this model is a lot of RSS feeds only return the latest 5 or so items. So if you haven't opened your RSS reader in some time you might miss the other 10 items they published since you were last on. Google Reader was awesome because it solved this problem, but like all great things from Google it came with an expiration date.
A Feed reader "requires" a server component, it's true that client-side only feed readers are very limited, unless you never leave you computer offline. I'm a happy user of Miniflux (hosted myself), but there are many alternatives. https://miniflux.app/
I use Brief, a Firefox extension. It downloads items in the background while Firefox is open, which seems to be often enough that I don't miss anything.