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> Finally, and one of the biggest issues with RSS, is that it's not very intuitive to non-tech savvy individuals.

Back when Google reader was a thing this wasn't true. Your browser auto-themed and provided subscribing options for your configured reader. It's a true shame that Firefox gave up supporting RSS out of the box to match Chrome's stance on the subject

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07-01-2013, never forget.

There's so many google dates to not forget, I've started forgetting them all.

RSS can do that too!

There's always a handy reminder here [0].

[0] https://killedbygoogle.com/

    2013-07-01 ISO
    07/01/2013 US
    01.07.2013 Rest

Pick one, but not the abomination you posted, thanks.

> never forget

Honestly I'm pretty much over this now and ready to move on with my life :p

There are plenty of good rss readers out there - many of them created because Google left the space. I think that this diversity and decentralisation is a net positive for the world.

You’re right on that last point: Reader was nice for the community scale but most of the feed readers I’ve used have more and better features – Google never treated Reader better than the proverbial red-headed stepchild and it was on life support for years before the end.

I would reframe that “never forget” advice to something along the lines of “never forget that corporations do not care about you” – Google had a reputation for being different and a lot of us believed that to some extent; sacrificing Reader trying to make people use Google+ was a watershed moment when a lot of people had to accept that their loyalty wasn’t reciprocated.

Do you remember FeedBurner? It allowed you to subscribe to RSS feed using many popular services - screenshot: https://www.theedublogger.com/files/2010/01/feedburner49.jpg.

There are still many RSS extensions for all web browsers, so RSS is not dead.

That's my feeling as well... When browsers had good RSS plugin integration it was pretty great. Really destroyed my reading habits when they killed reader and removed browser integration.

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