New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is the disappearance of RSS feeds affecting your happiness too?
Ask HN: Is the disappearance of RSS feeds affecting your happiness too?
2 by smoyer | 1 comments on Hacker News.
In the last week, there have been almost a dozen articles posted here that I found interesting enough to want to read more from the author. In each case, the only way I could subscribe to their blog was to sign-up by providing them with my email address. Worse yet, these systems require that you verify your email before they start sending you SPAM. I only want to know when you publish something new ... I didn't sign up to have you send me advertising! The RSS protocol was specifically designed to allow this type of subscription and it works great. I've got many blogs I've been following this way for 15+ years (Dave Winer, who occasionally posts to HN has one of the oldest). It's even more disturbing when RSS feeds disappear and I end up with 404 errors in my reader. This has also happened for a couple of RSS feeds that serve podcasts (Spotify and Pandora aren't helping this trend). I have a couple ideas that I've started working on to counteract this trend but before spending too much time on them, I wanted to see whether anyone else was feeling this pain. Depending on the response, perhaps I'll share these ideas at some point in the discussion.
2 by smoyer | 1 comments on Hacker News.
In the last week, there have been almost a dozen articles posted here that I found interesting enough to want to read more from the author. In each case, the only way I could subscribe to their blog was to sign-up by providing them with my email address. Worse yet, these systems require that you verify your email before they start sending you SPAM. I only want to know when you publish something new ... I didn't sign up to have you send me advertising! The RSS protocol was specifically designed to allow this type of subscription and it works great. I've got many blogs I've been following this way for 15+ years (Dave Winer, who occasionally posts to HN has one of the oldest). It's even more disturbing when RSS feeds disappear and I end up with 404 errors in my reader. This has also happened for a couple of RSS feeds that serve podcasts (Spotify and Pandora aren't helping this trend). I have a couple ideas that I've started working on to counteract this trend but before spending too much time on them, I wanted to see whether anyone else was feeling this pain. Depending on the response, perhaps I'll share these ideas at some point in the discussion.
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