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There are things we can do to make RSS-based consumption much easier. I use an RSS browser plugin for Firefox[1] so that a feed icon shows up on any page adver
by mawise 4y ago
There are things we can do to make RSS-based consumption much easier. I use an RSS browser plugin for Firefox[1] so that a feed icon shows up on any page advertising[2] a feed. The feed icon let's me subscribe to the site with 2 clicks (and no copy/paste). This is a space that is ripe for building better tools, especially since so much of the (non-walled) internet still exposes RSS. We even have a handful of companies getting people to pay $$ for a solid hosted feed-reader experience (Feedly, Inoreader, Newsblur, etc.)
[1]: https://github.com/Reeywhaar/want-my-rss https://github.com/Reeywhaar/want-my-rss
[2]: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery
- klez 4y ago> I use an RSS browser plugin for Firefox so that a feed icon shows up on any page advertising a feed. Can you imagine Firefox having such a button without the need for a plugin. That would be crazy, wouldn't it?
- jacooper 4y agoNah they are spending time making the tabs larger, that's more important.
- rchaud 4y agoPretty sure I remember Firefox 2 having an orange RSS button built in. This would have been 2006 though, the golden age of blogging. I can understand if they removed it, most high-traffic personal blogs started moving to social media by around 2010-12.