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How do you get better UX than clicking an RSS link and it adding itself to your feed reader? It isn't the protocol, it is that there is no profit in an open st
by zanny 11y ago
How do you get better UX than clicking an RSS link and it adding itself to your feed reader?
It isn't the protocol, it is that there is no profit in an open standard like that. Google killed their Reader because they wanted everyone forced into G+, rather than consuming content from around the Internet.
It is the same thing with messaging and VOIP. Nobody wants to use an open standard like XMPP or more recently Matrix because there is no money in using standards when you can lock users in to a walled garden.
- TorKlingberg 11y ago> How do you get better UX than clicking an RSS link and it adding itself to your feed reader? Well, you need to have a feed reader set up.
- zanny 11y agoYou need to signup for Facebook / Twitter as well. And there are browser based feed readers. The only downside is the lack of availability of web-based feed reader support in browsers. That might be partially on the onus of the reader, but it would require you to at least install an extension to add their site as your default feed processor. That can be a UX loss.
- komali2 11y agoBy having your articles directly on your site, linked to via a "feed reader" that everyone already uses - twitter, facebook, reddit, etc. I remember trying to get into RSS feeds a few years back. I passed them by - it was easier to just hit news.google.com or my multireddit or twitterfeed for news I was interested in. Sure, I didn't "get it," and yea fine I'm not the smartest guy ever, but I'm probably a good representation of the average net user - interested in efficient means at getting the news such as RSS, but also tremendously lazy. Why bother? I already have a twitter/reddit/gnews account.
- thescribe 11y agoTwitter is transitory, Facebook isn't chronological, Reddit puts you at the whims of other people.