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This sort of dumb sarcasm is soooo annoying for a billion reasons: - Every major website where RSS would be useful (except Facebook. Twitter needs RSS like we
by rtpg 6y ago
This sort of dumb sarcasm is soooo annoying for a billion reasons:
- Every major website where RSS would be useful (except Facebook. Twitter needs RSS like we need the plague), _has it!_ RSS support is ubiquitous
- There are carbon-copy clones of google reader. I use one every day (well, twice a week cuz I don't depend on reading RSS). You can just subscribe
- For really tricky stuff, you can wire together some stuff with, like, Zapier. It's annoying but way easier than it would be 10 years ago (cuz even then loads of random stuff didn't have feeds)
This is the most annoying kind of nostalgia. Not because it's wishing for an old world that never existed, but because it's implying that the current world doesn't _still have all of this stuff_. At least whining about XMPP has some merit.
- geerlingguy 6y agoThe first statement is, sadly, no longer true today. Far too many times after a redesign, RSS feeds that were useful and functional just disappear. Sometimes they're redirected to a new feed location that doesn't have all the content the old feed did, or just has headlines instead of headlines and teasers. And many new sites never test RSS functionality, so if there is a feed, it just shows posts tagged 'feed' or something like that.