Atom has the Atom Threading Extensions, to document conversation in feeds. RSS is great for reading, but for conversing, it's not a good fit. In fact, if there were a way to only see conversations in Twitter (and ignore all the posts with no responses) that would have a lot of value for me. I doubt I'd be privy to the discussions happening on Twitter if they were happening any other way (blogs tried to do it with comments and pingbacks, but that isn't as good as Twitter, and not as open to everyone, since you have to run a blog of your own). I don't login to twitter all that often, but when I do, I see things like this: and this: What Twitter (and social media in general) provides that RSS doesn't is interaction. īut reading through the post and the comments here, I'm sensing an omission. ![]() I recently wrote that new developers should use RSS. I'm making a site and hoping to turn a profit through ads and my interesting content - why would I want to provide a convenient stripped down version of my website for you to consume - something that is a net negative for my revenue (hosting and transferring data costs money)? Sure, I can provide "excerpts" in RSS, but I'd rather prefer you go to my homepage to see what is new - it is thoroughly AB tested to lure you in, spend some time and see some ads - maybe click one. So it is a net negative in terms of revenue.Īnd I'm not only talking about people that produce readers, but also about content creators. And there always is the possibility that it can evolve into something that is more convenient used by masses. ![]() Yes, RSS is generally used by technical people - but you'd be surprised how many technical people don't use adblocks, sometimes because they don't care and sometimes because they don't think it is ethical to do so. With readers, you consume content that is most probably there because of potential ad revenue. When the focus of the organisation is on something idealistic (open web), is it too much to expect them to add it to the core of the product? One can always wish.Īs one commentator said in the linked article: protocols are better than platforms.Įdit: The issue here is not about obtaining the feature with add-ons and extensions, which there are many. I just wish some consortium of like minded companies like NYT/WaPo/Guardian/BBCs/Other national dailies, Reddit, Mozilla, and even Microsoft can huddle together and come up with a new name/identity and spread it and popularise it. Having to find and enter byzantine URLs is not the way to go although personally, I do not have any trouble doing that as I have been using RSS and feed readers for more than a decade, but that is not the case for everyone. But they'd need to invest a little bit to make it easy to subscribe-similar to following on Twitter/Instagram or Liking pages on Facebook-to receive site updates. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox.
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