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the death of google reader was sad, but at the same time, RSS as a method of reading blogs and news has exited the building. Competing products have failed to p
by ryanobjc 10y ago
the death of google reader was sad, but at the same time, RSS as a method of reading blogs and news has exited the building. Competing products have failed to provide the same kind of mindshare that reader apparently had. Social media has taken over, for better and worse.
The internet has changed, and reader is one of those things that is solidly in the past.
- CaptSpify 10y agoHeavily disagree. I still use RSS constantly. Sure, I don't think RSS will be here 100 years from now, it'll die someday, but I've yet to see an actual alternative to it.
- ryanobjc 10y agoHere's the issue, yes, you can disagree, and your workflow is different. But in general, most people get their news from social media now - mostly Facebook as it turns out. That is hardly a disputable fact. RSS is a technical detail of how sites publish, and in the end, people seem to not care about it. They care about end user features, which apparently includes their friends commenting. And that is what Facebook does. Yeah you could make an argument that Google Reader killed the promising RSS market, but I don't think that argument really holds a lot of water.