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Browser support for RSS was never serious anyway. RSS is definitely not irrelevant, for one it's how almost all podcasts are distributed.
by marcellus23 5y ago
Browser support for RSS was never serious anyway. RSS is definitely not irrelevant, for one it's how almost all podcasts are distributed.
- technobabbler 5y agoI dunno, I used a lot of RSS feeds and feed readers back in the day. It was a good digest mechanism before Google News and social news. Now it just seems a historical oddity. Sure, maybe podcasts use it as an underlying protocol, but users' experiences depend more on the front-end client (some app) than the playlist protocol. It's not really a discovery protocol either; turns out having a central index like Spotify or the podcast apps do works better anyway. I think it's irrelevant in the sense that it could be trivially replaced by app-specific implementations, and few people would even notice anymore.