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Generally, it's hard to convince nerds that something trivial to them is not trivial to non nerds. In what reality is it obvious that "to 'get more of somethin
by julien 14y ago
Generally, it's hard to convince nerds that something trivial to them is not trivial to non nerds.
In what reality is it obvious that "to 'get more of something' I have to copy a url (what's a url?) from a browser tab to another web application?"
Before telling me that poeple just have to click the "feed icon", watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ and ask yourself if you think people will go from:
"I want more of this site" to "Why don't I click that funky little orange icon in the address bar?"
- ernesth 14y agoSubscribing to an RSS feed is exactly as difficult as bookmarking a site: if I use the browser's own ability, it is a click near the URL then a click on the "Bookmark page" button (or menu) respectively a click on the "Subscribe" button; if I use a web based aggregator, it gets very difficult as I have to click on the so-called bookmarklet in my bookmark bar. The first part may only be true in old Firefox and Opera.
- julien 14y agoI disagree. Bookmarking is something people understand better because they've done that for centuries. Even the word makes more sense 'book marking'. "Subscribing" on the other end is what people used to do when they paid to get magazine delivered to their places...
- dpatrick86 14y agoMaybe we should rename RSS to something like "Carrier Pigeoning"
- ernesth 14y ago> "Subscribing" on the other end is what people used to do [...] to get magazine delivered to their places. Which is what RSS does! It gets the next issues of the "magazine" delivered to your place.
- mapgrep 14y agoNot true. When I bookmark a page I'm never asked what format I want the bookmark in, or which page I'm trying to bookmark. Click a browser's feed icon and you'd better be prepared to choose between RSS and Atom, all content or top content, and full feed vs summaries.
- r00fus 14y agoGoogle Reader got even some of my family on the RSS train - instead of searching for the RSS button the site, I told them to search in Reader for the site, and pick the one with the most subscribers. It's something that made RSS a whole lot more accessible to everyone. Another thing that will be lost when Reader shuts down.
- teeja 14y agoNo offense, but in which universe does copy-and-paste require nerdship? (Do we really need more people online who can't handle that or find someone to help them?)