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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