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Perhaps dealing with flaky or inconsistent feeds was a problem? Particularly in a "why is your browser broken and unable to read this feed?" situation where it
by fencepost 7y ago
Perhaps dealing with flaky or inconsistent feeds was a problem? Particularly in a "why is your browser broken and unable to read this feed?" situation where it turns out the feed is a mess. If you don't support the feature, you don't get blamed for not handling all the weird edge cases.
- gsich 7y agoI doubt that. HTML itself has the same problem. Browser vendors can't fathom the idea that content is not displayed on the website. Drive for centralisation, especially from Google. Mozilla corporate BSed their way out of RSS. Their source for their claim that "nobody uses RSS" comes from their telemetry. Not one thought was given to the idea that maybe RSS users simply disable that more often?