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Why do I care if it’s a “niche” technology as far as other people subscribing if it is still supported by publishers? I can’t think of a single site that I go t
by scarface74 4y ago
Why do I care if it’s a “niche” technology as far as other people subscribing if it is still supported by publishers? I can’t think of a single site that I go to and say “I sure wish this site supported RSS” and doesn’t?
Using NetNewsWire and subscribing to subreddits with NNW on one half of my iPad and the Reddit app on the other half is still a great experience for instance.
I click on the date on NNW and the post opens in the Reddit app.
HN also has an RSS feed.
- johannes1234321 4y ago> Why do I care if it’s a “niche” technology as far as other people subscribing if it is still supported by publishers? If it is a niche technology it will fall out from requirements docs and from CMS implementations. One can already see that many news sites only provide headlines, not even teasers in the feed and different site generator based blogs (using Hugo and such) forget to create feeds as well. My feed reader still provides value to me, but I regularly stumble over sites providing interesting content irregularly but no feed. (For irregularly posting blogs it is especially important as manually checking is annoying)
- scarface74 4y agoThey don’t have the entire article because they can’t display ads. DaringFireball and a few other blogs get around this by having native ads as an RSS entry.
- johannes1234321 4y agoOne could also embed an image on the text or do textual ads in the article. However market is too small, thus they do the simple thing which is limiting the value of the feed, till nobody cares about it anymore and they turn it off.