@codinghorror@infosec.exchange
Post #3532595
2026-07-02 11:02 UTC
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@buherator@infosec.place 2026-07-02 11:07
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange @bovaz@misskey.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @jwz@mastodon.social Was it really RSS, or the applications built around it? IIRC Google Reader was pretty popular during it's time, until vendors started to push ppl away from syndication (incl. killing Reader) in general.
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@bovaz@misskey.social 2026-07-02 11:12
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @jwz@mastodon.social I think the dev experience was less than ideal, because of version incompatibilities. The user experience is possibly mostly to blame on the client side of things. Even html/css/js sucks without a browser to parse it and render it. For example, the fact that it's not push-based is a positive feature, to me, for what rss is meant to do. This is not to say "push" systems don't have their place.
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@mzagaja@mastodon.social 2026-07-02 11:12
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange @bovaz@misskey.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @jwz@mastodon.social wait really? Maybe I’m weird I still use RSS to this day (via NetNewsWire) and enjoy it very much. Certainly more than most social media apps. The only annoyances are sites that don’t have full content feeds (only article summaries) or major sites that flood you with 100s of posts a day.
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@nicol@social.coop 2026-07-02 11:14
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange @bovaz@misskey.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @jwz@mastodon.social it was great as a junior dev user experience. I didn’t know how to programme an API connection, but I could feed the RSS of multiple blogs into Reader, sort and categorise them and (unless this is a false memory) repost those categories as RSS feeds into a CMS on different sections (which desktop rss apps couldn’t do). My only technical skill was CSS, and RSS with Reader in the middle was like magic.
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@whynothugo@fosstodon.org 2026-07-02 11:21
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange @bovaz@misskey.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @jwz@mastodon.social It may not be perfect, but nothing else took its place, we don't really have anything that's better. Our options are RSS or simply don't follow any feed.