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Ask average Joe what's an RSS feed and you'll know. Supporting effectively dead technology doesn't make financial sense for any company.
by justapassenger 6y ago
Ask average Joe what's an RSS feed and you'll know. Supporting effectively dead technology doesn't make financial sense for any company.
- gearhart 6y agoWhilst it’s true that fewer and fewer consumers use RSS, it’s still a very powerful way for aggregators to source stories and drive readers to the original publisher. Think about it more as an api for building a “shopfront” for your news stories and the fact that most publishers still provide RSS makes much more sense.
- gsich 6y agoYou can do that question for anything. TCP, HTTP, DNS ...
- justapassenger 6y agoFor those you, can show people that they do use it. For RSS, they don't use it. I love RSS as much as most of older tech geeks, but I'm fully aware it's as relevant nowadays as usenet, and don't expect non-geeky surfaces to support it.
- guenthert 6y agoRSS isn't dead, it's just not popular (never has been). Teletype wasn't popular either, still it was essential to some. And while teletype clearly requires costly specialized hardware, RSS doesn't.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoIf you'd asked me a half hour ago I would definitely have said RSS' lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk, but then this Reuters thing happened and I can categorically assure any one who would like to know that RSS is not dead, it's just pining for the fjords.
- adrianN 6y agoAsk average joe what IMAP is? People don't need to understand the technology they use. Anybody who can use an email client can also use a feed reader.