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What is it with people believing RSS is dead? It's not dead, it's stable. It works, it does its job, it doesn't need to be changed. When something like this "j
by dada78641 5y ago
What is it with people believing RSS is dead? It's not dead, it's stable. It works, it does its job, it doesn't need to be changed.
When something like this "just works" it's easy to fall victim to the belief that it's irrelevant, but that's just because it exists in the background.
I sincerely hope you will not remove RSS support because it's an easy way to monitor publicly visible updates from all kinds of sites without needing to implement their APIs. I've got a bot that monitors Youtube accounts via RSS and posts updates to a Discord. Writing the code took only about a half hour because parsing RSS feeds is literally a single call to a library.
To me, RSS/Atom is one of the original promises of the web: a freely accessible network of information from all over the world in a standardized open format that anyone can use. Takes practically zero time to implement because libraries will do the work for you. @intenttoship is already lamenting the fact they're going to have to write a screen scraper now.
- hopesthoughts 5y agoYeah maybe rss.app will make one too. I mean Thus continues the removal of Google from my life.