Re:Introducing the new Google+
by yitchelle on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @05:39PM
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If there is a service that converts your G+ feed into a rss feed, would you use it?
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Re:Introducing the new Google+
by rogerbinns on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @06:06PM
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There were a few, but none worked reliably at all. I do use a external service that converts twitter to RSS (something they dropped a while back), but also have to redo those every year or so as the various services break or stop functioning.
The thing about RSS is that it is a good match for providing a feed. By Google not providing that sort of thing, you have to use their user interface. Others can't try experiments, cater to certain usage styles, or introduce new ways of using the service. You'll note that twitter had that vibrant experimentation and growth, until they decided to cut that possibility in 2011 - http://fortune.com/2015/10/21/twitter-jack-dorsey-apology/