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Digg has always been late with everything since they lost their throne at the top. I doubt the world will wait for them to deliver something new. Sites like Di

Digg has always been late with everything since they lost their throne at the top. I doubt the world will wait for them to deliver something new. Sites like Digg, Reddit, Tumblr etc should provide their own version of RSS readers. Wordpress.com has recently introduced their own reader and it supposedly has a feature to browse external sites. Why can't Reddit and Tumblr do the same thing?

pavel_lishin 14y ago
> Sites like Digg, Reddit, Tumblr etc should provide their own version of RSS readers. Why?
- webwanderings 14y ago
  Because those of us who are used to of scrolling content from these services, can stay at one place.
- WalterSear 14y ago
  Because it would be just as stupid as Google shutting down it's Reader.
- pseut 14y ago
  I've wanted Tumblr to allow you to subscribe to external rss feeds for a while (I think it did at one point) -- some of he blogs I read are text heavy, some are graphics heavy, etc., and it would be nice to have separate readers optimized for the different types of content. It would be nice to be able to subscribe to "tumblrs" on the tumblr dashboard whether or not they're actually hosted on tumblr. Reddit's kind of the same thing: it would be nice to have a reader integrated with the discussion.
  - rhdoenges 14y ago
    The dashboard isn't good at telling you whether you've seen a post already and moves much too fast for traditional blogs that post once a day or less to even show up within the first few pages. I don't think Tumblr has the right UI for an RSS reader.
    - pseut 14y ago
      Sure, but there are plenty of light, "pretty" blogs that I'll browse when I have time to kill, and tumblr wouldn't be bad for that. I'm not arguing in favor of Tumblr necessarily, but specialization. I'd love Twitter to have a separate but connected rss reader, for "twitter-like" content, for example. Any of these social network or quasi social network services could offer a customized rss reader - it's like having the best JavaScript "share this page on..." button possible.
mkr-hn 14y ago
The wordpress.com reader barely works for blogs on wordpress.com. I don't know if it lets you add RSS feeds, but I wouldn't use it.
- webwanderings 14y ago
  That's a different point altogether, but at least there is an associated service.
revelation 14y ago
The only thing Digg about this Digg is the brand Digg.
hadem 14y ago
Doesn't each content provider (Digg, Reddit, Tumblr, etc) providing its own RSS reader defeat the purpose of RSS in the first place? The reason I enjoyed Reader (or any RSS reader for that matter) is the fact I didn't need to visit X number of sites to read content.
- pavel_lishin 14y ago
  I don't think it does. If Tumblr had their own reader, you wouldn't have to visit X sites - you could just visit Tumblr.
  - fluidcruft 14y ago
    If Google+ can't fathom a use for RSS, why should Tumblr?
  - hadem 14y ago
    Maybe I am misunderstanding your ideas but I guess I don't see the benefit of visiting Tumblr's RSS reader to read Tumblr. Why not just read from Tumblr's website at that point?
    - pavel_lishin 14y ago
      I think the original commenter's point was that they frequently use Tumblr's current method of reading other Tumbls, and they would prefer that other web content appear there, too. It's not visiting Tumblr's Reader to read Tumblr - it's visiting Tumblr's Reader to read everythign.
- webwanderings 14y ago
  I see what you're saying but I am not suggesting that people would use all these services all the time. The point is that you would have a choice of "getting" your content in the application you are most comfortable with. Imagine if you are a daily user of TweetDeck and know how to filter your content (so you have relatively mastered the information overload already). Now, wouldn't it be better for you if you could pull in RSS feeds as well into TweetDeck?
srik 14y ago
Digg is under a new team. From what Ive seen so far, they are really quick to ship.

pavel_lishin 14y ago

> Sites like Digg, Reddit, Tumblr etc should provide their own version of RSS readers. Why?

webwanderings 14y ago
Because those of us who are used to of scrolling content from these services, can stay at one place.
WalterSear 14y ago
Because it would be just as stupid as Google shutting down it's Reader.
pseut 14y ago
I've wanted Tumblr to allow you to subscribe to external rss feeds for a while (I think it did at one point) -- some of he blogs I read are text heavy, some are graphics heavy, etc., and it would be nice to have separate readers optimized for the different types of content. It would be nice to be able to subscribe to "tumblrs" on the tumblr dashboard whether or not they're actually hosted on tumblr. Reddit's kind of the same thing: it would be nice to have a reader integrated with the discussion.
- rhdoenges 14y ago
  The dashboard isn't good at telling you whether you've seen a post already and moves much too fast for traditional blogs that post once a day or less to even show up within the first few pages. I don't think Tumblr has the right UI for an RSS reader.
  - pseut 14y ago
    Sure, but there are plenty of light, "pretty" blogs that I'll browse when I have time to kill, and tumblr wouldn't be bad for that. I'm not arguing in favor of Tumblr necessarily, but specialization. I'd love Twitter to have a separate but connected rss reader, for "twitter-like" content, for example. Any of these social network or quasi social network services could offer a customized rss reader - it's like having the best JavaScript "share this page on..." button possible.

mkr-hn 14y ago

The wordpress.com reader barely works for blogs on wordpress.com. I don't know if it lets you add RSS feeds, but I wouldn't use it.

webwanderings 14y ago
That's a different point altogether, but at least there is an associated service.

revelation 14y ago

The only thing Digg about this Digg is the brand Digg.

hadem 14y ago

Doesn't each content provider (Digg, Reddit, Tumblr, etc) providing its own RSS reader defeat the purpose of RSS in the first place? The reason I enjoyed Reader (or any RSS reader for that matter) is the fact I didn't need to visit X number of sites to read content.

pavel_lishin 14y ago
I don't think it does. If Tumblr had their own reader, you wouldn't have to visit X sites - you could just visit Tumblr.
- fluidcruft 14y ago
  If Google+ can't fathom a use for RSS, why should Tumblr?
- hadem 14y ago
  Maybe I am misunderstanding your ideas but I guess I don't see the benefit of visiting Tumblr's RSS reader to read Tumblr. Why not just read from Tumblr's website at that point?
  - pavel_lishin 14y ago
    I think the original commenter's point was that they frequently use Tumblr's current method of reading other Tumbls, and they would prefer that other web content appear there, too. It's not visiting Tumblr's Reader to read Tumblr - it's visiting Tumblr's Reader to read everythign.
webwanderings 14y ago
I see what you're saying but I am not suggesting that people would use all these services all the time. The point is that you would have a choice of "getting" your content in the application you are most comfortable with. Imagine if you are a daily user of TweetDeck and know how to filter your content (so you have relatively mastered the information overload already). Now, wouldn't it be better for you if you could pull in RSS feeds as well into TweetDeck?

srik 14y ago

Digg is under a new team. From what Ive seen so far, they are really quick to ship.