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Just because something is Open doesn't mean it is worth supporting when most people don't care about or use it anymore. Web Search Interest for RSS; down 78% f
by DanI-S 13y ago
Just because something is Open doesn't mean it is worth supporting when most people don't care about or use it anymore.
Web Search Interest for RSS; down 78% from its peak in 2006:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=RSS http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=RSS
Web Search Interest for XMPP; down 33% from its peak in 2010:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=XMPP http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=XMPP
As Bob Dylan once said: the times, they are a-changin'.
- ernesth 13y agoAnd with SMTP down 80% from its top in 2004 or imap down 58%, the question of the op should seem perfectly legitimate to you.
- DanI-S 13y agoClearly not, since SMTP and IMAP are still in far greater use than RSS and XMPP ever were. But do you think that question will never be legitimate? Will we still be using SMTP in 2113? Google is planning to be around for a long time. What percentage of the resources of your organization do you devote to supporting old technologies in limited use?
- ernesth 13y agoOf course, IMAP and SMTP might be replaced by better protocols in the future (as POP3 was). However, my point was that the fact that the search trend for a protocol is downhill does not mean it is no longer used and should be scrapped. I argue that XMPP is in wider use than it has ever been. And that RSS has not been replaced by anything yet. Hence stopping their support in favour of a locked proprietary platform is bad and explaining this move by google trends is absurd.