@frank Agreed, RSS is still the perfect technology it's just the implementation that needs to change.

There has to be a better way to subscribe to sites. While RSS readers are making a bit of a comeback in certain quarters there's no doubt that, as Sameer puts it, "subscribing to feeds definitely has fallen out of parlance." It's not just that sites need subscribe buttons agai... colinwalker.blog

2018-02-02 12:41 pm

canion

@colinwalker That's a great summation of the issue. Thanks for putting that together. Let's hope it can build some momentum for improvement.

2018-02-02 12:59 pm

frank

@colinwalker It's a very interesting question. The underlying protocol of RSS is still excellent to use. But for the normal user it should not be visible. I always loved the in-browser tab with subscriptions. IE was actually pretty good at this.

2018-02-02 1:14 pm

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@frank Agreed, RSS is still the perfect technology it's just the implementation that needs to change.

2018-02-02 1:34 pm

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