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It wasn't done the right way in the past. Sometimes an implementation is 80% right and you just need to do a few things to get to 100%. It needs a better name
by JoshMnem 9y ago
It wasn't done the right way in the past. Sometimes an implementation is 80% right and you just need to do a few things to get to 100%.
It needs a better name than RSS/Atom. It should sound like English: "Subscribe to this website with <better name>." (same icon)
"Really Simple Syndication" and acronyms cause non-technical people to shut down. It's a foreign language. (Edit: "Atom" would be a good name, because it's plain English, and probably a better format too.)
RSS/Atom didn't decline because of Mozilla -- it declined when Google killed Google reader.
The information overload could be solved with machine learning algorithms (run locally in the client) that sort posts into a "featured" folder.
There are solutions to all of the current issues with RSS/Atom.
- Vinnl 9y ago"Feed" is pretty common. But you still will only know what it means if you know what it is :)
- JoshMnem 9y ago> you still will only know what it means if you know what it is That's the problem with RSS/Atom. "Feed reader" doesn't mean anything to most people. "Subscribe to this website" does.
- workingwriter 8y agoInteresting. In the original post, I clicked on the RSS "link" towards the bottom. Firefox invited me to subscribe via "Live Bookmarks," a Firefox browser feature that may pre-date Google Reader. It's a good name for non-technical people, but I don't know how many people have used it. I'm not even sure how it works.