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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds
(openrss.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Thankfully all the sites I follow still publish their RSS feeds. I fear the day when they start dropping off.
For me, that already happened.
I had planned a train trip that started to seem pretty unlikely when the relevant union started talking about a strike. I needed to check the union’s site every day to see how the negotiations were going. Doing that through RSS would have been nice, but the site didn’t support it and none of the apps I tried were able to help me either. Do I need to craft my own webscraping code and make a cron job to run it every hour?