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> We went from a really vibrant blog culture with a ton of platforms and different setups I mean, don't we still have that? I know that my RSS feed is still t

> We went from a really vibrant blog culture with a ton of platforms and different setups I mean, don't we still have that? I know that my RSS feed is still too content-free to keep up with (even after culling a double-digit number of hefty ones.) And now we have even more RSS aggregators (Feedbin, The Old Reader, etc.) than we had before!

oriolid 5y ago
I feel like doing stupid comparisons right now. Feedbin, The Old Reader, or even running a feed aggregator on your own computer are like the sound of a tree falling in the woods. They're also not like The Matrix, because not only they can't be explained but the people who still complain about Google Reader don't understand them when they see them themselves.
mro_name 5y ago
yes, but all lack design that would inspire the mainstream. Being niche is fine but the reader was big with multiplicators like journalists etc. You don't get them with wholemeal bread.
- d1sxeyes 5y ago
  I use Feedly, which is pretty nicely designed (it has other drawbacks, but it looks and feels like a modern, proper app). The real frustration is that websites only put short extracts of their content into the RSS feed to force you to go and... look at their ads, I guess? But I'd imagine the number of folks using RSS feed readers who don't also use ad-blockers is vanishingly small.
  - stereoradonc 5y ago
    Inoreader provides more value than Feedly at a fraction of the costs.
    - pinkano 5y ago
      really?
    - d1sxeyes 5y ago
      I use Feedly’s free version, but thanks for the tip!
llampx 5y ago
RSS has changed as well. Earlier, the RSS feed could be the entire article or blog post. Then it changed to include ads. Then it changed to a snippet of the article or just the headline with some ads. Every change made it worse for usability. I don't know how the RSS feed is configured if you set up a blogspot or wordpress blog now, let alone the newer blogging platforms or tools like Hugo.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
  The RSS didn't change. It's 100% on every content creator to decide what to include in an RSS item. Some decide to put only a snippet, hoping to lead you to their full website to show you ads. It has been this since the earliest days of RSS.
- IceWreck 5y ago
  All three platforms you mentioned, Hugo, Blogspot and Wordpress have RSS enabled by default.

oriolid 5y ago

I feel like doing stupid comparisons right now. Feedbin, The Old Reader, or even running a feed aggregator on your own computer are like the sound of a tree falling in the woods. They're also not like The Matrix, because not only they can't be explained but the people who still complain about Google Reader don't understand them when they see them themselves.

mro_name 5y ago

yes, but all lack design that would inspire the mainstream. Being niche is fine but the reader was big with multiplicators like journalists etc. You don't get them with wholemeal bread.

d1sxeyes 5y ago
I use Feedly, which is pretty nicely designed (it has other drawbacks, but it looks and feels like a modern, proper app). The real frustration is that websites only put short extracts of their content into the RSS feed to force you to go and... look at their ads, I guess? But I'd imagine the number of folks using RSS feed readers who don't also use ad-blockers is vanishingly small.
- stereoradonc 5y ago
  Inoreader provides more value than Feedly at a fraction of the costs.
  - pinkano 5y ago
    really?
  - d1sxeyes 5y ago
    I use Feedly’s free version, but thanks for the tip!

llampx 5y ago

RSS has changed as well. Earlier, the RSS feed could be the entire article or blog post. Then it changed to include ads. Then it changed to a snippet of the article or just the headline with some ads. Every change made it worse for usability. I don't know how the RSS feed is configured if you set up a blogspot or wordpress blog now, let alone the newer blogging platforms or tools like Hugo.

Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
The RSS didn't change. It's 100% on every content creator to decide what to include in an RSS item. Some decide to put only a snippet, hoping to lead you to their full website to show you ads. It has been this since the earliest days of RSS.
IceWreck 5y ago
All three platforms you mentioned, Hugo, Blogspot and Wordpress have RSS enabled by default.