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I seem to have missed the "abandon all RSS" movement, which doesn't surprise me. I am missing That One Puzzle Piece which enables me to understand why people di
by drdeadringer 9y ago
I seem to have missed the "abandon all RSS" movement, which doesn't surprise me. I am missing That One Puzzle Piece which enables me to understand why people ditched RSS in the first place. I'd appreciate enlightenment.
- alexandros 9y agoGoogle reader was introduced, made it look like it would be there forever and cost nothing, which killed any alternatives. Then Google killed reader in favor of Google+. At that point, there was no good reader, and even with not-as-good alternatives like feedly, a lot of people didn't feel like setting things up again. As a result, the whole ecosystem was knocked out of balance and never recovered.
- drdeadringer 9y ago> Google reader was introduced Ah, a good point. This was a blip on my radar because, oddly, I had RSS and wasn't as plugged into Google at that time as I am now [yet am still 'on' RSS now more than ever].
- fulldecent 9y agoThe (perceived?) reality is that social grows your user base and RSS doesn't. Publishers care about growth more than serving existing customers.
- drdeadringer 9y ago> (perceived?) reality is that social grows your user base and RSS doesn't Another fair point... in general RSS can be thought of as "broadcasting to users" instead of the illicit "user engagement". On another fair point though, the RSS app I currently use [Podcast Addict] has a "share" option with beget-plenty list of options [from eMail to Twitter]. I can't imagine other RSS apps not having the same in Current Year.