It's too much work and effort to maintain such complicated legacy technology for the incredibly busy brain of a Google engineer.
I have "implemented" RSS on a tiny personal blog. Am willing to be hired for FAANG money. :-)
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
#72There's a ton of smart people working at Google. Just none in the management
Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
#73I think this site, is not well scrap-able without selenium. Google products however rely on web scraping because of Google search. It is a hypocrisy of sorts.
Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
#74'Google has stopped...', or 'Google no longer...', 'Google have removed'.
As I can no longer watch yt without getting annoyed, looks like it's time to get a new email provider (as well) .
@ yahoo seem to have few(er?) problems.
There are probably others. Can anyone recommend a good search engine?
Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
#75It'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."
I would guess that rss doesn’t show up in their JavaScript-driven web analytics so they mistakenly think no one uses it.
So they have some stupid conversation like “patching the rss code will take 5 units of labor, but I want to cyberdize the whoozit that also takes 5 units. Does anyone even care about rss and use it? Oh the analytics show zero. Let’s de prioritize that.”
I think the bigger problem is people on the team not using rss and knowing this is super dumb. And PMs now knowing the world their metrics don’t track.
Seems to kind with google once being great and now full of fat rich peoples’ kids just riding the slow and gradual suck. (Based on the theory that smart people have weak, pampered kids; then weak kids get destroyed by jerk fascists; then jerk fascists get overturned by smart people and the cycle completes).
Of course the dumb kids think they are geniuses because their parents are part. And the parents want to pretend their kids are smart. Etc etc
Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
#76Earlier 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.
Google reader had social features, shares and comments.
Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
#77The 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 tak…
Your general point definitely stands - there is a pretty nice third party solution for google workspace though: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM
Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> maintaining RSS feeds requires some resources
I find that rss output is just part of good architecture so it’s sort of something I’m going to make even if no one uses it. Because I want to have some static form of syndication that processes can check.
Of course there is some nominal cost to exposing the uris or something, but anyone complaining about this would be weird to complain. Especially given all the other odd feature requests going on.
Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
#79It's too much work and effort to maintain such complicated legacy technology for the incredibly busy brain of a Google engineer.
I have "implemented" RSS on a tiny personal blog. Am willing to be hired for FAANG money. :-)
Sorry sweety, they only hire people with five years experience with latest fad technologies.
Re: We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
#80https://kill-the-newsletter.com
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