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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?
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @08:39AM
It's sad that some pages have built in feeds but no button to click to subscribe. The usual fix is to view source and ctrl+f "rss".
I don't think I could stand using the internet without it tho.
All my webcomics have RSS, I get my youtube subscription feed via RSS, I get notified of available software updates via RSS and of course I get my news with it too.
The only person I've successfully converted to it is my mother. Other people wish they'd get updates in their twitter feed so they don't have to check multiple feeds but they still want the shackle on one foot.