@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 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/
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.
Given the way search engines are intercepting/truncating traffic, sites not featuring/promoting RSS are hastening their own extinction.
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
Exhibit A: Netnewswire
Exhibit B: Vienna
Exhibit C: Thunderbird
Exhibit D: Reeder
Exhibit F: Feeder
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@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.