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I think it's easy to come to a false conclusion through studies like this. Unlike BACK I click an RSS icon once and subscribe in another application—and only i
by trebor 15y ago
I think it's easy to come to a false conclusion through studies like this.
Unlike BACK I click an RSS icon once and subscribe in another application—and only if I already like the site/news/feed. So for the users like me that just click the button once and awhile to subscribe to a feed in another piece of software, like Vienna or Mail, we appear as a false low.
I use Chrome, so that doesn't help Firefox in my case. But Chrome doesn't show RSS links either. I wish they still offered the option.
- dejv 15y agoThere are official extension for Chrome to display this icon (see https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmk...). As long as there are extensions I am ok with removing this icon from browser itself.
- Gormo 15y agoThe Chrome extension is sort of broken - if I click the address-bar RSS icon, it opens the feed in a nice stylesheet, but I can't see the URL. This is a problem for sites that put their feeds in meta tags, but don't have an RSS link on their front page - I end up having to view source to copy out the RSS link.
- nollidge 15y agoRight, but only 3% of users ever clicked the button. How frequently they clicked it isn't what the OP was talking about.