Re:Cloudflare and RSS
by pavel_lishin on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @02:15PM
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> I just follow them on Twitter and use Twitter as "RSS reader".
This quickly breaks down. I subscribe to 1096 sites according to Newsblur. I would 100% miss some content from those sites if I only followed them on twitter.
And for some of those sites, that's probably fine; a fair amount are just 'entertainment'. But there are updates I would hate to miss, even if they tweeted links to them at 3am or right before a huge tweet-storm from someone else.
That is exactly the problem RSS was designed to solve.
Re:Cloudflare and RSS
by michilehr on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:30AM
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Or when you were on vacation taking a brake from work and so also from the tech stuff. RSS is great for not missing something. All that interest based sorting for social media made RSS much more important for me.
This quickly breaks down. I subscribe to 1096 sites according to Newsblur. I would 100% miss some content from those sites if I only followed them on twitter.
And for some of those sites, that's probably fine; a fair amount are just 'entertainment'. But there are updates I would hate to miss, even if they tweeted links to them at 3am or right before a huge tweet-storm from someone else.
That is exactly the problem RSS was designed to solve.