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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 passwordoops »

prepend wrote: post #75
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."

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 t…

>they mistakenly think no one uses it.

No, I think it's a very deliberate choice. RSS is a means to escape the gaze of Big G. Can't let that happen

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

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Post by ydant »

hliyan wrote: post #69

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 tak…

https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM

> GAM is a command line tool for Google Workspace admins to manage domain and user settings quickly and easily.

I need this about once per year, but every time it's invaluable.

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

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Post by glenstein »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #60
playingalong wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. Demand on RSS might induce RSS supply. Or might have had.

RSS is still very much around though. Most websites that aren't silos offer them. In fact, big problem is that many websites offer too many RSS feeds, and websites that don't need them offer them; makes algorithmic curation much harder.

More used to offer them than currently do. And the trend has been for sites that have RSS to remove it. So you're correct that RSS has not become extinct due to Google, it has merely contributed to lower adoption.

Google reader was the alpha and Omega of RSS feed reading, and it set a standard norm followed by the rest of the internet, and Google's decision to move on from RSS similarly was followed by much of the rest of the internet. If, in the heyday of Google Reader, you asked me what one thing could drive the stake through the heart of RSS, it would be Google making some choice to drive norms and standards of the web in a different direction.

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

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Post by Alifatisk »

eviks wrote: post #29

> Unfortunately, we don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're actively working on a solution. RSS could be that solution!

> we're actively working on a solution

Yeah exactly, what kind of bs is that

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

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Post by kevincox »

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.

If only they had a first-party blogging platform that has great RSS support including WebSub real-time updates.

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

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Post by mrweasel »

einpoklum wrote: post #85
Akashic101 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only one of those browsers you listed does not use Chromium

I did not realize it was that bad. Opera too? Maybe resistance _is_ futile? :-(

> Opera too?

Sadly yes, Presto died many moons ago. I still miss the old Opera, when it wasn't owned by a Chinese company and had it's own rendering engine. But building a browser is expensive, a rendering engine even more so. We won't pay the cost of developing software, so we 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 d3w4s9 »

jordanthoms wrote: post #77
hliyan wrote: post #69

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 tak…

Your general point definitely stands - there is a pretty nice third party solution for google workspace though: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM

I doubt how many admins are comfortable with (or allowed to) using a non-approved third-party tool to manage their organization, despite open source and all that

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

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Post by carrozo »

vishnuharidas wrote: post #68

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.

Yes! Why isn’t this the case already?
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