Comments on: RSS feeds suck http://www.shyzer.com/2007/01/05/rss-feeds-suck/ The one and only blog about Shyzer and Goob. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:52:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Goob http://www.shyzer.com/2007/01/05/rss-feeds-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-5743 Goob Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:29:28 +0000 http://www.shyzer.com/2007/01/05/rss-feeds-suck/#comment-5743 600 feeds? If each feed were to be updated daily, would you read them all? I'm on the computer a goof 7 hours a day and even I don't come anywhere close to having 600 different sites I'm interested in on a daily basis. Anybody can take the extreme end of the spectrum to prove a point. However, you'd be hard pressed to find many other users who have 600 legitimate sites they are interested in reading every time an update occurs. There's a reason RSS feeds have yet to catch on with mainstream Internet users. Most people don't have hundreds of sites they need to be updated on and can easily check their few favorites without having to rely on a silly feed. 600 feeds? If each feed were to be updated daily, would you read them all? I’m on the computer a goof 7 hours a day and even I don’t come anywhere close to having 600 different sites I’m interested in on a daily basis.

Anybody can take the extreme end of the spectrum to prove a point. However, you’d be hard pressed to find many other users who have 600 legitimate sites they are interested in reading every time an update occurs.

There’s a reason RSS feeds have yet to catch on with mainstream Internet users. Most people don’t have hundreds of sites they need to be updated on and can easily check their few favorites without having to rely on a silly feed.

]]> By: Daniel Lee Sale http://www.shyzer.com/2007/01/05/rss-feeds-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-5742 Daniel Lee Sale Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:21:15 +0000 http://www.shyzer.com/2007/01/05/rss-feeds-suck/#comment-5742 I subscribe to over 600 feeds. Do you know how long it would take for me to update myself if I were to use a browser? And that's just if I would want to be updated once a day. As for only having the first sentence of your post in your feed, a lot of blogging platforms allow one to include the full entry in a feed if it is desired. Many bloggers opt to do that these days. I subscribe to over 600 feeds. Do you know how long it would take for me to update myself if I were to use a browser? And that’s just if I would want to be updated once a day.

As for only having the first sentence of your post in your feed, a lot of blogging platforms allow one to include the full entry in a feed if it is desired. Many bloggers opt to do that these days.

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