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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 zerojames »

Kye wrote: post #27
marginalia_nu wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm still angry at Google for killing Reader. It was the best way to consume content on the web. I never used Reader so I'm not genuinely curious, what about it makes it difficult for someone to just create a copy of the service?

It's not about features. It's about defaults. Google Reader was linked right there on the top bar of the world's largest search engine. No one could credibly claim RSS was dead or neglect/remove support for it in the next revision.

Thank you for sharing this! I didn't have the opportunity to use Reader. I have always wondered what made it stand out.

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

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Post by marginalia_nu »

Kye wrote: post #27
marginalia_nu wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm still angry at Google for killing Reader. It was the best way to consume content on the web. I never used Reader so I'm not genuinely curious, what about it makes it difficult for someone to just create a copy of the service?

It's not about features. It's about defaults. Google Reader was linked right there on the top bar of the world's largest search engine. No one could credibly claim RSS was dead or neglect/remove support for it in the next revision.

That doesn't really answer my question. You can put any link in the bookmarks bar of the browser and have it there in every window.

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

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Post by Kye »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #33
Kye wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not about features. It's about defaults. Google Reader was linked right there on the top bar of the world's largest search engine. No one could credibly claim RSS was dead or neglect/remove support for it in the next revision.

That doesn't really answer my question. You can put any link in the bookmarks bar of the browser and have it there in every window.

That won't make it the default for and visible to the entire world.

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

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Post by gmerc »

rollcat wrote: post #25
throwuxiytayq wrote: post #5

It's too much work and effort to maintain such complicated legacy technology for the incredibly busy brain of a Google engineer.

I wonder what's going on in the head of a person that decides to axe RSS support. "Surely my user base will continue coming to the landing page of my website to check for updates every day."

bingo; you just found the kpi. everything needs a kpi.

Facebook did that with emails - slowly remove all the content to turn them into traffic generators for the feed team.

Hilariously when they launched workplace, the corporate productive product, they did the same thing, viciously spamming you with emails that have the first 15 characters of the workplace post that triggered them (and 2 more for the notification and every comment).

zero respect for your time, everything must drive traffic.

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

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Post by rcMgD2BwE72F »

Shorel wrote: post #26
reddalo wrote: post #10

People don't understand how much RSS is useful... I'm still angry at Google for killing Reader. It was the best way to consume content on the web.

Without ads. And without using search. And without paying Google to push news headlines on Android devices. RSS is a menace to Google's bottom line!

No. Many RSS feeds had plenty of ads, and most of them were served by Google. And many bloggers only shared headlines or cropped articles through feeds because they wanted to have visitors come to their pages and click ads. Google couldn't lose either way.

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

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Post by jjgreen »

Semaphor wrote: post #15
reddalo wrote: post #10

People don't understand how much RSS is useful... I'm still angry at Google for killing Reader. It was the best way to consume content on the web.

> I'm still angry at Google for killing Reader. It was the best way to consume content on the web. I’m happy, it lead to an explosion of available readers, including many self-hosted ones.

Walkers did the same with their crisps ("chips" for left-ponders), made them healthy by reducing the fat content, disgusting, like eating dried leaves. End result: a wealth of new crisp brands and people keen to try them. My favourite, Salty Dog [1], couldn't have happened without Walkers pissing on their own chips ("fries" for left-ponders).

[1] https://www.saltydog-grrr.com/category/crisps

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