I ran an RSS aggregator ~15 years ago. All these things were still problems back then… also FeedBurner was a complete plague, at least that’s mostly gone away.

I ran an RSS aggregator ~15 years ago. All these things were still problems back then… also FeedBurner was a complete plague, at least that’s mostly gone away. I’ve been trying to work out a new approach to newsreaders for a couple years now, and have all but given up on RSS. The standard needs to improve in significant ways — most notably with discoverability — if it ever wants to get back to the Google Reader “glory days”. I’ve tried reporting bugs to rags like The New Yorker and The Atlantic, each one is a a black hole. Unless you can make a case for helping monetization, they don’t care at all, and I can’t say I blame them.