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Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by xnx on Saturday February 24, 2024 @01:54PM (#39494123)
Agree. Text on buttons should be verbs. "Subscribe" or "Follow" would've been 1000x better than "RSS". Of all the sidequests Firefox has put itself on, better supporting RSS would be a good one. Mozilla already owns Pocket, so it would be a very small jump.
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Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by redwall_hp on Saturday February 24, 2024 @02:04PM (#39494221)
"RSS" wasn't very common to put on feed buttons. The standard RSS icon was normal, including in Firefox (where it would display on the URL bar when detected on a site). And commonly web pages linking directly to their feed would say something along the lines of "subscribe via RSS" or just "subscribe" with the icon.

People are definitely used to poking cryptic pictograms on contemporary UIs, and RSS clearly gives off an impression of something being broadcast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS#/media/File%3AFeed-icon.sv...

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