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There’s nothing stopping folks from using RSS feeds. Turns out people want to make money and rss feeds don’t do this easily. The end.
by endisneigh 3y ago
There’s nothing stopping folks from using RSS feeds. Turns out people want to make money and rss feeds don’t do this easily. The end.
- geerlingguy 3y agoThe answer to that has been the "teaser" posts in RSS, linking to the full post on the website. Some orgs still have a "complete" feed with full articles for subscribers, like Ars Technica.
- corobo 3y agoand the answer to that is an RSS app that grabs the article and runs it through a reader mode of some sort (Unread and I believe Reeder have this feature on iOS)
- endisneigh 3y agoIndeed - this is more or less what has been implemented with Google news, Facebook, Twitter etc. I do think rss or another protocol would have been nice even for what you’re describing but such is life.
- hot_gril 3y agoUsers never caught on much to RSS either. Plenty of news sites still have RSS feeds, but hardly anybody bothers setting them up with a reader. And I don't think it's Google's fault that nobody else is making a popular RSS reader.
- fbdab103 3y agoBrowsers dropping RSS support certainly did not help. Now instead of being in everyone's super-app, people need a dedicated service or application to handle it. Even sites which have a feed, typically do not advertise. My best option is to open the source and CTRL-F for "atom" or "feed".
- andrewshadura 3y agoTypically, when a page refers to the feed in an appropriate way, you can add it to your reader directly, without needing to extract the URL by hand.
- zilti 3y agoUnfortunately, many pages supporting RSS don't advertise it via meta tags anymore