I’m using Feedly and checked the organise feed page. The main problem with RSS is that you can’t see it.īrowsers have removed the RSS icon long time ago, about the same time Google introduced the chromecast icon, its similarities makes me think it wasn’t a mistake. I still use RSS myself but am afraid it has begun to fade for a long time now.
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In the meantime, though, kudos to the gatekeepers of RSS for keeping it simple and relatively free of featuritis. Now, if you wanted to suggest that notification were not the entirety of "syndication" and that RSS 3.0 should allow publishers to more clearly express an organization to their published items or relationships between them (e.g., this article is an update/correction/retraction of that one), that would be in the right ballpark.
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But the HTML and PDF standards are not part of the RSS standard, and that’s entirely as it should be! New ways of preparing or delivering media are outside the scope of that standard and should stay out! They belong in some other standard entirely.Ĭonsider: I can use RSS to notify people of newly available or changed HTML pages and PDF documents.
As such, it makes as few assumptions about the media being delivered as possible (basically, that they can be uniquely identified via a URL). RSS is a standard for "syndication", and interprets that primarily as a matter of notification. The best and longest enduring standards define their scope clearly and stick to it. * If you use Feedly, you can check how many dead feeds you follow by opening the "organize" menu.Īctually, Nate, I think that’s a legitimately interesting example of what not to do with a standard. I checked with Feedly* and discovered 843 of the feeds I follow are now dead because either the site went away or moved its RSS feed in an update, and another 621 feeds are inactive (new posts are only published a few times a year).Īll of those feeds used to be alive with at least weekly updates, but in the past five years most of their owners have moved from owning their own platform to being, as Mike Masnick pointed out, trapped in one or another social media silo (Facebook, Twitter, etc). I still have over two thousand RSS feeds in Bazqux, but they are not half as useful as they used to be. I am still using BazQux Reader, the app I switched to from Google Reader 5 years ago (in fact, I had to pay the annual subscription on 2 July). Nevertheless, a lot of us still use RSS on a regular basis, and I was wondering just how many people are still using RSS as much as they did 5 years ago. RSS largely died with Google Reader development of the RSS standard (and the Atom standard that replaced it) had petered out years before, and aside from a brief surge in new apps in 2013, we haven’t seen a new feed reader service in years. The fifth anniversary of the passing of Google Reader went largely unremarked in most circles, but there was some coverage on Techdirt and other sites (Wired even called for a revival of RSS).
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