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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 feel pleased that me as a single web dev with minimal money and few smarts, has managed to successfully implement rss on all blogs or blog like things I've made. Perhaps I should interview at Google and teach them my amazing solution.
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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 an…
Google killed Plus, so it's not like when they killed Reader. They just like killing things I guess?
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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 an…
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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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.
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."
In the real world, the options aren't just an RSS feed vs. "load the page daily". Readers also come from search engines, social media, link aggregators and non-RSS news feeds.
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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.
As for my search engine, I genuinely don't track my users, so I really don't have the fainest how many users I have. 4 people or a million people use my search engine, and I make the same amount of money from it. If I want the search engine to do well, I have to use my own eyes to assess how well it performs.
Watch them slowly remove every RSS feed they operate, so when they come up with their own proprietary solution in 6 months nobody can lament their "sudden" removal of RSS.
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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.
Not really. Demand on RSS might induce RSS supply. Or might have had.