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How even Mozilla tried to make RSS as difficult to use as possible, eventually just removing all but Live bookmarks, and even then pushing that to a separate ex
by AshamedCaptain 4y ago
How even Mozilla tried to make RSS as difficult to use as possible, eventually just removing all but Live bookmarks, and even then pushing that to a separate extension...
In any case, I don't think the problem is lack of clients, but lack of publishers. Most platforms with loginwalls (e.g. Twitter) will never publish RSS feeds...
- superkuh 4y agoCorporate persons web applications don't but most web sites run by human persons do. Wordpress, medium, etc, all have easy automatic RSS generation. RSS is only lacking if you live in the megacorp content silos.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoCorporations are usually the place where I can most easily find RSS feeds. I can easily find RSS feeds for newspapers, press releases, status of services, etc. The problem is individuals. Individuals tend to publish on hosts which just are incompatible with RSS (because they are 'platforms' with other goals, like Twitter), or self-host without RSS (yes, happens). Platforms which have automatic RSS generation are a minority in terms of users (and BTW Wordpress and Medium are also 'corporate person silos', save for perhaps self-hosted WP). An example of this irony is that Twitter itself publishes RSS feeds for their investor news -- https://investor.twitterinc.com/rss-feeds/default.aspx https://investor.twitterinc.com/rss-feeds/default.aspx -- yet fails to provide RSS feeds for their actual user content. Personally I do not assign much value in following the opinions of individuals, so I am still primarily an RSS user. But lately even e.g. political parties tend to publish in these silos and forget about RSS.