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So a blog with content you like is verboten because your RSS feed wouldn't update instantly? That seems like an odd hill to die on.
by gbrown 8y ago
So a blog with content you like is verboten because your RSS feed wouldn't update instantly? That seems like an odd hill to die on.
- kgwxd 8y agoIt's a horrible band-aid that hurts the functionality and reputation of RSS and shouldn't be encouraged by supporting the site setting a bad example. If they want to play the pointless cat-and-mouse game with the "thieves", fine, but crippling RSS in the process is not cool. They will just scrape the site instead and the RSS feed will be worse off for no gain.
- gbrown 8y agoCrippling? I'm as information addicted as the next guy, but unless I'm missing something fundamental about RSS, the only effect is that you as a user will notice new posts a few hours late. That seems more than reasonable to me. If it turns out not to work, they can go back.
- kgwxd 8y agoAnd if it turns out to work, they will encourage others to follow, hurting an already neglected great technology.
- toast0 8y agoI didn't look around at the rest of this blog, but I don't see anything here that's particularly time sensitive. I would have been just as interested in delaying RSS today or tomorrow.
- kgwxd 8y agoThat's not the point, it's making RSS a second-class citizen. That's bad enough on its own. It's doubly bad in this case because they went from treating it as special. If it had just been made equal, I wouldn't object. This is clearly a problem best solved by the search engines, if the world fixes it with this technique, there will be no push to fix it the right way and RSS will be worse off than it already is.
- d2wa 8y agohttps://www.ctrl.blog/topic/feeds https://www.ctrl.blog/topic/feeds