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I guess I just don't see the point of complaining when a company shuts down their own product. It was a free product. It came with no guarantee. Just because
by RIMR 8y ago
I guess I just don't see the point of complaining when a company shuts down their own product.
It was a free product. It came with no guarantee. Just because you liked it doesn't mean you were entitled to it, and it doesn't mean Google did anything wrong by shuttering it.
If you are still using RSS, you need to get with the program. RSS aggregators are out of style for a reason...
- jessaustin 8y agoWhat are you saying? That we should use Atom instead? There is no important difference between the protocols. Or are you saying that we shouldn't use "simple syndication" anymore? Why, so we can let Facebook tell us what to look at? Yeah no thanks.
- Kalium 8y agoI believe parent is saying that RSS became something publishers publishers did not prefer to Twitter, Facebook, and real-time search. Simple syndication might be preferable to users, but it is not for publishers.
- jessaustin 8y agoSure, but I don't see how that's a criticism of RSS? "Nobody uses it because users prefer it!" Besides it still drives e.g. podcasting; apparently those publishers are still making money.
- Kalium 8y agoPublishers of text, as a whole, do not prefer RSS to other options to serve the same purpose. That's not a criticism, just a comparison. It means that given the choice, which publishers mainly are, they opt for things that aren't RSS.
- RIMR 8y agoI'm saying go download another RSS aggregator, because they are a dime-a-dozen. Don't rely on cloud-hosted closed-source software to be available forever.
- hopesthoughts 8y agoI'm still using RSS and I don't plan to get with your program anytime soon. I also use Twitter, but would never rely on it 100% for anything.