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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 omneity »

If keeping up with Google dev blogs is important to you, at Monitoro[0] we support alerts even if the website doesn't offer RSS. You can also catch specific updates, for example if a new post mentions a Google tool you're using at work.

Feel free to get in touch with me if you need help or have questions.

[0]: https://monitoro.co

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

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Post by hexage1814 »

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.

Oh, they do understand. That's why they are moving it. It is too useful.

Internet users can't have nice things.

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

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Post by xwowsersx »

gmerc wrote: post #37
rollcat wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It probably is about analytics, you're right. But to be fair, maintaining RSS feeds requires some resources, even if nominal. If the usage of RSS is low or declining, the cost of maintaining it might not justify the benefits, leading to a decision to allocate resources elsewhere.

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

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Post by vishnuharidas »

RSS reader software won't be successful. RSS reader should be built into the browser and every time you open the browser, the RSS feed should be the landing page. Every time you open a new tab, it should show a minimal feed that can be fully expanded.

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

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Post by hliyan »

The web seems to be becoming paradoxically less and less machine/automation friendly. I recently had to modify 150+ accounts in a Google Workspace. Twenty years ago, I would be doing this in a Unix environment with a very simple shell script. Instead, I had to click-copy-paste-click, 20 times per page, like a monkey. I'm sure there must be some sort of API, but it would have taken 100 times the time it would have taken to write a simple command line script. In the quest for more and more human eyeballs, the web is becoming less and less machine friendly.

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

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Post by Euphorbium »

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 have never, and never will forgive them for that, but inoreader is better.
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