I find it slightly incredible that someone who works for Google feels that they can state "RSS is effectively dead." in the latest thread about the public outcry around Google killing RSS in one of their products.
Google killing off Reader was the single event that started the "Killed by Google" meme. Every time Google removes RSS from something there's stories and threads all over the tech press, HN, Reddit, etc. What is it about RSS in particular, but also tech in general, that makes Googlers incapable of listening to the what people are telling them?
Google's support for RSS is effectively dead, because Googlers actively want to kill it. Maybe you'll succeed. I wouldn't celebrate that if I worked for Google.
>What is it about RSS in particular, but also tech in general, that makes Googlers incapable of listening to the what people are telling them?
"Data driven decision making." The real death of any piece of proprietary or centrally maintained software is the addition of telemetry. The actual death comes much later.
It's probably more because Google has an almost pathological aversion to maintaining anything. You don't get the cool projects, raises and promotions by doing the journeyman work of maintaining, fixing bugs, listening to users and gradually improving an app or service.
This is a guess, but I reckon Alphabet has a little over 50,000 members of engineering staff (135,000 total, roughly 40% engineers). Suggesting that one or two of them wouldn't want to be involved in a core Google product that's been running for about 20 years is so strange to me.
I find it slightly incredible that someone who works for Google feels that they can state "RSS is effectively dead." in the latest thread about the public outcry around Google killing RSS in one of their products.
Google killing off Reader was the single event that started the "Killed by Google" meme. Every time Google removes RSS from something there's stories and threads all over the tech press, HN, Reddit, etc. What is it about RSS in particular, but also tech in general, that makes Googlers incapable of listening to the what people are telling them?
Google's support for RSS is effectively dead, because Googlers actively want to kill it. Maybe you'll succeed. I wouldn't celebrate that if I worked for Google.