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The "rss support" was a folder, filled with links named after the article titles. It was good that it was removed, as it was useless to put it mildly

by y4mi 8y ago

matthewn 8y ago
> The "rss support" was a folder, filled with links named after the article titles. You're describing the "live bookmarks" feature, which was only one part of the RSS functionality that was removed from Firefox. I never used live bookmarks, but I used the feed discovery and subscription functionality all the time -- only some of which can now be restored with addons.
- contravariant 8y ago
  They also removed the ability to preview RSS feeds, which is annoying because one of the few certain ways to subscribe to a feed was to preview it and then hit subscribe in whatever addon you were using. In the past it was even possible to subscribe with whatever addon you prefered from the firefox RSS preview directly, but that was already lost after the jump to WebExtensions.
  - zaarn 8y ago
    There are addons that restore RSS previews and improve on firefox' old feature.
kazinator 8y ago
Though useless, I think that some RSS extensions were able to pull feeds from there.
pradn 8y ago
It was an easy and simple way to get into RSS. I used to use it quite a bit. Just the effort of finding an RSS reader is enough to turn people off the service. Compare to Twitter, which exists on all platforms. I don't think we can underestimate the interface problem for RSS.
iamphilrae 8y ago
I actually used it considerably for my news site bookmarks on my bookmarks bar. It was great for just catching up on the day’s headline. It’s a feature I sorely miss.
- war1025 8y ago
  The Livemarks extension duplicates the feature pretty acceptably.
pard68 8y ago
You are describing the majority of rss readers. Newsboat could be said to be a folder, with a file inside called urls. Sure it's actually more than that, but that's the part you interact with. So what's your point?

The "rss support" was a folder, filled with links named after the article titles. It was good that it was removed, as it was useless to put it mildly

by y4mi 8y ago

The "rss support" was a folder, filled with links named after the article titles. It was good that it was removed, as it was useless to put it mildly

matthewn 8y ago

> The "rss support" was a folder, filled with links named after the article titles. You're describing the "live bookmarks" feature, which was only one part of the RSS functionality that was removed from Firefox. I never used live bookmarks, but I used the feed discovery and subscription functionality all the time -- only some of which can now be restored with addons.

contravariant 8y ago
They also removed the ability to preview RSS feeds, which is annoying because one of the few certain ways to subscribe to a feed was to preview it and then hit subscribe in whatever addon you were using. In the past it was even possible to subscribe with whatever addon you prefered from the firefox RSS preview directly, but that was already lost after the jump to WebExtensions.
- zaarn 8y ago
  There are addons that restore RSS previews and improve on firefox' old feature.

kazinator 8y ago

Though useless, I think that some RSS extensions were able to pull feeds from there.

pradn 8y ago

It was an easy and simple way to get into RSS. I used to use it quite a bit. Just the effort of finding an RSS reader is enough to turn people off the service. Compare to Twitter, which exists on all platforms. I don't think we can underestimate the interface problem for RSS.

iamphilrae 8y ago

I actually used it considerably for my news site bookmarks on my bookmarks bar. It was great for just catching up on the day’s headline. It’s a feature I sorely miss.

war1025 8y ago
The Livemarks extension duplicates the feature pretty acceptably.

pard68 8y ago

You are describing the majority of rss readers. Newsboat could be said to be a folder, with a file inside called urls. Sure it's actually more than that, but that's the part you interact with. So what's your point?