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I only disagree with this for one reason: many websites have RSS feeds, but don't link to them in an obvious place. Clicking "Subscribe to This Page…" in the B

• RobertRoberts 8y ago
  I build websites for a living, and providing an RSS feed for my clients (from their perspective) is incredibly low priority. Why? Because their clients don't ask for them. RSS feeds are used for social media content sharing, but not for regular users. Also, most blog content these days (for my clients) tends to be pretty canned stuff only used for SEO and content-bling to make some site look important. I think sites that are serious about followers may use RSS, but not the majority of sites out there. Which leads us to why RSS support isn't needed anymore and can be relegated to an extension... popularity.
  • type0 8y ago
    > from their perspective) is incredibly low priority. Perspective has nothing to do with it, implementing RSS/Atom is incredibly simple for most use cases when you build websites for a living...
    • RobertRoberts 8y ago
      Yes it does, because they pay the bills. Also, all of the sites I build have RSS built into them automatically because of the framework running them. It's just that no one cares. RSS has never been requested by an end client (owner of the site) in any site I have built in almost 20 years. But, when the social media and marketing people get involved, they used RSS as a way to share content with other 3rd party services. RSS reader in Firefox as an extension is a perfect solution.