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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 belter »

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."

They thought RSS stood for 'Really Stop Sending'

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 »

bArray wrote: post #9
sertbdfgbnfgsd wrote: post #6

Google has an interest in our depending on Google to find stuff, so of course they see RSS as a threat. Cue some "googler" show up defending this move and how it makes the world better.

> Google has an interest in our depending on Google to find stuff, so of course they see RSS as a threat. But they historically had several feed systems [1] [2] which were fully under their control. > Cue some "googler" show up defending this move and how it makes the world better. Of course. 'We have a better system that uses 2FA to securely text you every ten minutes to generate a code that, in combination with a 1…

You forgot Feedburner that Google used to monetized feeds. Almost all bloggers I followed in Google Reader used it to track and monetize. Google had a lot of control over RSS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner

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 #35
marginalia_nu wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't understand why that matters? If 3 other people or a billion other people are using a RSS reading service, surely my own experience is the same.

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

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Post by toldyouso2022 »

rcMgD2BwE72F wrote: post #39
Shorel wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In the world of central banks Profit is not what motivates corporations.

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

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Post by jug »

I tried using RSS Generators like https://createfeed.fivefilters.org/ and even a graphical one, but it looks like this isn't a static site but there's some sort of delayed fetch of the posts that messes them up. Regardless how much I tried, I could only get it to fetch the top nav bar. I don't really think first of intentional malice to spite everyone else too, but maybe this is the same reason their own RSS feed generator no longer works either.

Also, I note the wording of the error message, that they're actively working on 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 Kye »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #44
Kye wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I don't understand why that matters? If 3 other people or a billion other people are using a RSS reading service, surely my own experience is the same.

You run a search engine and don't understand why defaults matter? Google pays billions to be the default. I don't understand what you don't understand. RSS was the default. Then it "died" (became non-default) and we got the Facebook feed and Twitter's toxic impression-pumping algorithms, and it's so much worse.

Journalists depended on Reader the way they came to depend on Twitter. They didn't move to another reader.

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 »

jwr wrote: post #36

RSS is not aligned with Google's business goals.

Why? RSS can be monetized. It was monetized by Google before they killed Reader to force people to use Google+.

Now, what's Google's goal to monetize social networks? They have non as far as I know. They lost all opportunities in the social space and they lost their lead in RSS. The Web lost too.

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