Do you know a better alternative? I would like to know
Re:I Still Use RSS
by loup-vaillant on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:32AM
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You probably didn't want to come across this way, but we should note that the absence of a better metric is not by itself a reason to use a bad one.
If a metric is sufficiently decorrelated with the thing we want to measure, it should be ignored altogether, regardless of whether we have anything better.
Here's the one for javascript:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=javascri...
Clearly javascript has been slowly dying out. But wait, that can't be right.
They're also a poor proxy for usage because the existing user base with feeds already set up doesn't have to do a search query to continue using it, so if a large number of them lose access at once, it's barely a blip because they wouldn't be doing searches for it either way.