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Yikes, seems like few people use the RSS icon to subscribe. I'd better an "RSS Subscribe" link to my website.

by jeb 16y ago

jra101 16y ago
I wonder what % of users actually use RSS, might just be that it is a very low percentage of Firefox users so the button is not used very often.
TorKlingberg 16y ago
I suspect most people don't use RSS at all.
jeff18 16y ago
Chrome doesn't even have an RSS icon at all!
- Pheter 16y ago
  It really frustrates me that it doesn't.
  - logic 16y ago
    Ask, and ye shall receive: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhn... It's even a product of Google themselves.
    - CoryMathews 16y ago
      well 1/2 receive you still have to send it to something such as the forever slow google reader. Its not built into chrome like it should be.
      - logic 16y ago
        It's not built in, but saying it "should be" is a strong statement, in my mind. A convenience item, certainly, but a requirement? RSS has a bit of a marketing problem to resolve before I'd say it absolutely must be there. (Also, you don't have to use Google Reader; it actually produces a reasonable in-browser rendering of an RSS feed, if you click the icon in the URL bar.)
        jeff18 16y ago
        Strong disagree. Chrome is the only major browser that doesn't have native support for RSS. Even Internet Explorer does! Hell, it doesn't even understand RSS -- it simply shows the raw XML source. Because of this, many blogs have links to their RSS/Atom feed with a fat "Subscribe" logo -- on Chrome, when you click that, you get a massive page of unparsed XML. Whether a given grandma knows what RSS is or not is beside the point, it's lame of Google not to follow a defacto standard that many sites rely upon when there is no technical reason not to. It seems weird the Chrome works so hard to integrate PDF / Flash / etc. so the users don't have to think about it and really push the envelope with their browser... yet they refuse to even honor RSS.
        CoryMathews 16y ago
        I do think it should be. But then again thats another reason i stick to opera. I don't want to load up another program to read my rss. I also think it makes it a whole lot less technical when its built in to the browser. I could have no idea what an rss feed is but since opera tells me that I can subscribe, I subscribe and then it opens them to be read. I then remember the orange icon and know how it works on any site. Thats a lot easier then taking the feed coping the url into a feed reader and having to open that every day to read my feeds.
  - Lewisham 16y ago
    I installed an extension so that it did :)
CoryMathews 16y ago
Most every non-technical user has no idea what rss is.

Yikes, seems like few people use the RSS icon to subscribe. I'd better an "RSS Subscribe" link to my website.

by jeb 16y ago

Yikes, seems like few people use the RSS icon to subscribe. I'd better an "RSS Subscribe" link to my website.

I wonder what % of users actually use RSS, might just be that it is a very low percentage of Firefox users so the button is not used very often.

TorKlingberg 16y ago

I suspect most people don't use RSS at all.

jeff18 16y ago

Chrome doesn't even have an RSS icon at all!

Pheter 16y ago
It really frustrates me that it doesn't.
- logic 16y ago
  Ask, and ye shall receive: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhn... It's even a product of Google themselves.
  - CoryMathews 16y ago
    well 1/2 receive you still have to send it to something such as the forever slow google reader. Its not built into chrome like it should be.
    - logic 16y ago
      It's not built in, but saying it "should be" is a strong statement, in my mind. A convenience item, certainly, but a requirement? RSS has a bit of a marketing problem to resolve before I'd say it absolutely must be there. (Also, you don't have to use Google Reader; it actually produces a reasonable in-browser rendering of an RSS feed, if you click the icon in the URL bar.)
      - jeff18 16y ago
        Strong disagree. Chrome is the only major browser that doesn't have native support for RSS. Even Internet Explorer does! Hell, it doesn't even understand RSS -- it simply shows the raw XML source. Because of this, many blogs have links to their RSS/Atom feed with a fat "Subscribe" logo -- on Chrome, when you click that, you get a massive page of unparsed XML. Whether a given grandma knows what RSS is or not is beside the point, it's lame of Google not to follow a defacto standard that many sites rely upon when there is no technical reason not to. It seems weird the Chrome works so hard to integrate PDF / Flash / etc. so the users don't have to think about it and really push the envelope with their browser... yet they refuse to even honor RSS.
      - CoryMathews 16y ago
        I do think it should be. But then again thats another reason i stick to opera. I don't want to load up another program to read my rss. I also think it makes it a whole lot less technical when its built in to the browser. I could have no idea what an rss feed is but since opera tells me that I can subscribe, I subscribe and then it opens them to be read. I then remember the orange icon and know how it works on any site. Thats a lot easier then taking the feed coping the url into a feed reader and having to open that every day to read my feeds.
- Lewisham 16y ago
  I installed an extension so that it did :)

CoryMathews 16y ago

Most every non-technical user has no idea what rss is.