bring back the little orange RSS icon in the corner of every website
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@maffeis @round Apparently Chrome has been toying around with this: https://9to5google.com/2023/02/10/chrome-follow-feature/ 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, itสผs at the bottom corner now, but itสผs still there (and works). https://lucire.com/ @hypertesto @round i think you understand just fine. it's cus it's cheap. and companies can't profit off your eyes @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/ @round I also need instructions for subscribing, because none of my current android apps seems to know how to watch an RSS feed. @round There are quite a few browser extensions that have taken over this job, eg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-finder/ijdgeedipkpmcliidjhbemmlgibfnaff @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. @round for this we have to thank billionaires losing a lot of money recently. @round So many sites still have rss feeds, they just donโt advertise it anymore ๐ข @round The designer of this icon (having designed it for @mozilla) is on the Fedi! @shorlander 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. @round@mastodon.social Given the way search engines are intercepting/truncating traffic, sites not featuring/promoting RSS are hastening their own extinction. If youโre on Android, Feeder looks like a nice reader. Iโve 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 @thedarktangent @round @WTL I've been using Feedbro on Firefox & Chrome, though I hate iOS dropped "real" RSS Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/ Chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/feedbro/mefgmmbdailogpfhfblcnnjfmnpnmdfa @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 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? |
@round AND QUIT MAKING IT MEAN PODCASTS!