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Maxim Leyzerovich

bring back the little orange RSS icon in the corner of every website

72 comments
Alessio Maffeis

@round also: bring back the RSS button/reader in Safari ๐Ÿ™‚CC: @jensimmons

Alessio Maffeis

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

Ed Ross

@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?

Pohokolius

@voxpelli @maffeis @round no worries, will occupy space on "the graveyard" someday. No need to rely on it.

Jack Yan (็”„็ˆตๆฉ)

@round Never took ours off. Mind you, itสผs at the bottom corner now, but itสผs still there (and works). lucire.com/

HyperTesto

@round it's so cheap i can't understand why It isn't the default

gvsabi

@hypertesto @round i think you understand just fine. it's cus it's cheap. and companies can't profit off your eyes

Chris Bishop

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

Pelle Wessman

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

As is the announcement of it back from back in 2005: mattbrett.com/blog/the-new-sta

Sam Oldman ๐Ÿ€

@round I also need instructions for subscribing, because none of my current android apps seems to know how to watch an RSS feed.

Jeff Hobbs

@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).

Julio Jimenez

@round thanks to rss I was able to write a barebones mastodon feed js plugin on my site.

Christopher Keener, pHd :ddg:

@round for this we have to thank billionaires losing a lot of money recently.

Daniel Schwarz :toad:

@round So many sites still have rss feeds, they just donโ€™t advertise it anymore ๐Ÿ˜ข

TopKnot

@round

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.

Doug Bostrom

@round

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

Jeff Moss

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

lifts

@thedarktangent @round @WTL

If youโ€™re on Android, Feeder looks like a nice reader. Iโ€™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.

Nemo Thorx

@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

Green Hombre

@round Oh my. Honey, it looks like we stumbled into Applebees. #oldpeople

Daniel Hakimi

@round Mine doesn't have the icon, but, like most blogs, it does have rss. Just type /rss after the root url.

LJ

@DanHakimi @round sometimes /feed/ works after the root url

Daniel Hakimi

@ljohn44 @round yeah. You might need to know the underlying blog software, or just make some guesses.

LJ

@DanHakimi @round I just guess, it seems to work out pretty well most of the time

William Main

@round I rely almost exclusively on feedly for my news. I find that there are not as many sites providing RSS feeds.

Archit Baweja

@round for a second I was confused this was a Indian political stunt

django plasmax

@round Even if you never click on it, it's nice to have it there.

Grissallia

@round Yup, replace the bird. Perfect place to put it.

The Barking Shark

@round but-- but this website would like to send you notifications, tho!

PEXAVC

@round RSS is the best symbolism for "Less is more" in tech

Cerhn

@round tell me more things I want to be told

WesMason

@round
It was never "every" website... Just the good ones.

Oblomov

@round and built in browser support (#Vivaldi seems to be the only one holding on)

allen

@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.

Phil

@round Good point. I'll get onto this tonight.

rskuipers

@round the busses here were using that icon as their wifi icon,

ladyteruki

@round : mine never left... except it's purple and round XD

cedricdes

@round you should check out @Vivaldi browser. They have an RSS icon in the search bar whenever a site supports RSS, and they have an RSS reader nicely embeded in the browser

kratoz29

@round For real, why is it so damn hard to subscribe to a RSS feed lol.

Martin Gausby

@round, and please add the date of publication to the content.

Adam Williams

@round It never went away! Or it did someplaces, but really as a signal to read elsewhere - baffling, why have a website AND hate your readers?

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