Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 12 submissions in the queue.

The Rise and Demise of RSS

posted by martyb on Monday January 14 2019, @11:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-dead-yet dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Motherboard:

About a decade ago, the average internet user might well have heard of RSS. Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary—what the acronym stands for depends on who you ask—is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has become, for most people, an obscure technology.

The story of how this happened is really two stories. The first is a story about a broad vision for the web's future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development.

Who killed RSS?

[NB: SoylentNews supports syndicated feeds — scroll to the bottom of almost any page on the site (for certain it is on the main page) and you will see links to our Atom and RSS feeds. --Ed].

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
The Rise and Demise of RSS | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 33 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:36AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:36AM (#786724)

    New users have started using the internet skipping the details of how this internet came to be and the older and recent history. They just want to visit "their" facebook page and upload a rectangle of pixels to it.

    Also, websites spy on their users, whether they came from RSS or whatever and nobody likes it except the spies. When it comes to volunteering your details to the internet, less is more.

    Starting Score:    0  points
    Moderation   +1  
       Insightful=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  
    Total Score:   1  

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:48AM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:48AM (#786729) Journal

    Now They Are Coming For RSS

    --
    [SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday January 15 2019, @05:43AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday January 15 2019, @05:43AM (#786801) Journal

      If you give stuff away for free, you must be a Commie/Socialist/enemy of the state, so you deserve to die.

      --
      "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Hyper on Tuesday January 15 2019, @10:56AM

      by Hyper (1525) on Tuesday January 15 2019, @10:56AM (#786848) Journal

      ‘Do you not know that a protocol is not dead while its name is still spoken?’
      - Sir Terry Pratchett

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @11:03AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @11:03AM (#786851)

      They can pry my pipedot feed from my cold dead clammy hands.