> Back in the early days of blogging, the tech press bashed RSS out of existence as it was supposedly too complex for ordinary users. I don't remember that bei

> Back in the early days of blogging, the tech press bashed RSS out of existence as it was supposedly too complex for ordinary users. I don't remember that being the case. The tech press probably had various opinions on RSS. The ones I read were all fine with it, if they mentioned it at all, but that could just be my bubble. At any rate, what damaged RSS' adoption was not articles about it. People not knowing how to use it definitely didn't help. Content sources wanting to create walled gardens (how did that work out?) hurt a lot. Google Reader going away hurt a lot too. Everybody spending 100% of their time on Facebook or Twitter probably hurt the most. But tech press articles, that's one I don't remember being a major factor.