bring back the little orange RSS icon in the corner of every website
@round AND QUIT MAKING IT MEAN PODCASTS!

@researchbuzz

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AND STOP CALLING AUDIOFILES WITHOUT RSS PODCASTS!

@round also: bring back the RSS button/reader in Safari 🙂CC: @jensimmons
@maffeis @round Apparently Chrome has been toying around with this: https://9to5google.com/2023/02/10/chrome-follow-feature/
Google Chrome's mobile 'Follow' feature – why you should be using it more often

In order to keep up with the latest news, it’s vital that articles and content be easy to find. Chrome...

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@voxpelli @round Interesting! Personally, I’m not sure I’d trust Google with anything RSS, after the Google Reader epic. (But also, I only use Chrome for work and dev/testing)

@maffeis

@voxpelli @round

I'd love to know what material whoever oversees Feedburner has on their superiors. Or maybe Google have just forgotten they own it?

@round Never took ours off. Mind you, itʼs at the bottom corner now, but itʼs still there (and works). https://lucire.com/
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@round PLEASE. I miss RSS.
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Download Livemarks for Firefox. Get auto-updated RSS feed bookmark folders.

@bleakfuture @round It never went away.
@whitemice @round it didn’t go away, and I still use the Reeder app daily but more and more websites are making it difficult if not impossible to find the rss links.
@round it's so cheap i can't understand why It isn't the default

@hypertesto @round Most companies imho don't drive their site, to deliver all that information you want. You shall visit the site to fulfill their own interests. They want you to see all the different ads & marketing actions.

I have seen many websites with RSS reducing the number of visits.

RSS makes it easy to process the information automatically, which is also often undesirable.

I love RSS and my own "multichannel" information meshup, it makes information/interests handling much easier.

@round rss was all we needed and we threw it away!

@round Good thing that the authoritative source of that icon is still online: http://feedicons.com/

As is the announcement of it back from back in 2005: https://mattbrett.com/blog/the-new-standard-feed-icon/

Feed Icons - Home of the free Standard RSS Icon

@round There are quite a few browser extensions that have taken over this job, eg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-finder/ijdgeedipkpmcliidjhbemmlgibfnaff
RSS Finder

Lists RSS and Atom feeds available on the current web page.

@round one of my personal triumphs of 2022 was getting RSS feeds back in the footer for Advance Local news sites (nj.com, oregonlive.com, al.com, mlive.com, a bunch more).
@round thanks to rss I was able to write a barebones mastodon feed js plugin on my site.
@julioj @round ooh any plans to open source it? 🧑🏻‍💻
@round It's not orange but mine has RSS 🥰
@round for this we have to thank billionaires losing a lot of money recently.
@round So many sites still have rss feeds, they just don’t advertise it anymore 😢
@round The designer of this icon (having designed it for @mozilla) is on the Fedi! @shorlander
@round @shorlander Though in true Fediverse fashion he has never posted
@jsit @round 👋 Post something to Mastodon has been on my to-do list for a while!

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Retire the "Subscribe" pop-up. Also, make the default "Cookie" setting to only absolutely necessary cookies will be allowed. Make it an opt in to track users.

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Given the way search engines are intercepting/truncating traffic, sites not featuring/promoting RSS are hastening their own extinction.

@round @WTL And bring back RSS readers that are local and not cloud based please.

@thedarktangent @round @WTL

If you’re on Android, Feeder looks like a nice reader. I’ve heard it can be a little overzealous with how much it fetches, though. Feedbro for Firefox was pretty good when I used it last.

@round @WTL @thedarktangent i use rss2email as my local solution. It turns every imap client (thunderbird on desktop, phone elsewise) into my rss reader.

email as a communication means is dated. Imap clients as a universal message reading system - for a certain class of message - is still really neat

@nemothorx @round @WTL @thedarktangent thunderbird, outlook and other email software have their own RSS "module" (desktop versions)
Feedbro – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Feedbro for Firefox. Advanced Feed Reader - Read news & blogs or any RSS/Atom/RDF source.

@thedarktangent @round @WTL

Exhibit A: Netnewswire
Exhibit B: Vienna
Exhibit C: Thunderbird
Exhibit D: Reeder
Exhibit F: Feeder

@thedarktangent @round @WTL I use news explorer for several years. All local. Works really well. https://apps.apple.com/app/id1032668306
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@thedarktangent @round @WTL funny that for podcasts, which are based in RSS, you will find many local clients
@round Mine doesn't have the icon, but, like most blogs, it does have rss. Just type /rss after the root url.
@round I rely almost exclusively on feedly for my news. I find that there are not as many sites providing RSS feeds.
@round for a second I was confused this was a Indian political stunt
@round Even if you never click on it, it's nice to have it there.
@round Yup, replace the bird. Perfect place to put it.
@round but-- but this website would like to send you notifications, tho!
@round RSS is the best symbolism for "Less is more" in tech
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It was never "every" website... Just the good ones.
@round and built in browser support (#Vivaldi seems to be the only one holding on)

@round the last 15 years have been about VC funds trying to wall up the RSS garden for profit only to fail.

maybe just... let federation exist for the common good.

@round Good point. I'll get onto this tonight.
@round the busses here were using that icon as their wifi icon,
@round : mine never left... except it's purple and round XD