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It's called "The Web" and every government org pretty much already has a website. All they have to do is publish something on it.
by olyjohn 1mo ago
It's called "The Web" and every government org pretty much already has a website. All they have to do is publish something on it.
- ncallaway 1mo agoI think the only thing I’d add is some kind of open and standard syndication system like RSS
- alightsoul 1mo agoYou then have to figure out where the RSS button is for every website.. it's a nightmare for the average person
- pferde 1mo agoBrowsers used to have a little RSS button either next to the address bar, or somewhere in the bottom status bar. But a propaganda corporation has been leading the charge in browser "development" for past few decades, and those do not like it when people exchange information without a centralized middleman, so use of RSS got deliberately pushed as far away from mainstream use as possible. So of course now it's "a nightmare for the average person".
- account42 1mo agoIts still not actually a nightmare because for pretty much every RSS reader you can just past the website URL into the subscribe function and it'll present you with all the feeds provided by that site sourced from <link rel="alternative"> tags. The browser feature was good for reminding people about the existence of RSS feeds but it is not required to solve the purported problem of feeds being hard to find.
- alightsoul 1mo agoCould it be intuitive on mobile? The problem is, how do we make it as simple as scrolling and tapping on the follow button so the user never even has to change apps?
- pferde 1mo agoI agree, but apparently that's still too difficult for the mainstream user.
- alightsoul 1mo agoIt is. Like why do they have to take several steps and remember instead of being reminded