Comments on: Choice Is Bad (For RSS) http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/10/31/choice-is-bad-for-rss Rachel Blum on Software, Games And The Rest Of Life Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:39:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: jj http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/10/31/choice-is-bad-for-rss/comment-page-1#comment-48537 jj Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:02:52 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/10/31/choice-is-bad-for-rss#comment-48537 <p>Well.. my grandma (or my mom for that matter), wouldn't even dare pressing the blue button. First, it doesn't look like a button, second, she doesn't know what RSS is, third, she doesn't care.</p> Well.. my grandma (or my mom for that matter), wouldn’t even dare pressing the blue button. First, it doesn’t look like a button, second, she doesn’t know what RSS is, third, she doesn’t care.

]]> By: Robert Blum http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/10/31/choice-is-bad-for-rss/comment-page-1#comment-39898 Robert Blum Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:46:20 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/10/31/choice-is-bad-for-rss#comment-39898 <p>Bryan: Wouldn't it be up to the site designer to handle that properly?</p> <p>Autumnist: Maybe, but Apple is not fond of configuration options. Most things you can have, or you can't have - but you can't switch'em on/off ;)</p> Bryan: Wouldn’t it be up to the site designer to handle that properly?

Autumnist: Maybe, but Apple is not fond of configuration options. Most things you can have, or you can’t have – but you can’t switch’em on/off ;)

]]> By: bryanl http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/10/31/choice-is-bad-for-rss/comment-page-1#comment-37839 bryanl Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:40:43 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/10/31/choice-is-bad-for-rss#comment-37839 <p>how about the use case where the site has multiple feeds? one for articles and one for comments?</p> how about the use case where the site has multiple feeds? one for articles and one for comments?

]]> By: autumnmist http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/10/31/choice-is-bad-for-rss/comment-page-1#comment-37830 autumnmist Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:10:30 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2007/10/31/choice-is-bad-for-rss#comment-37830 <p>I haven't upgraded yet, but I'd REALLY like that feature even though YAG (Your Average Grandma) would definitely be totally confused.</p> <p>Atom has the advantage of fewer duplicate feed items (I'm not sure why but it's something to do with hashing and how a feed won't show up 2x when all that was changed was its post time or title, etc.). So, I'd love to be able to choose easily.</p> <p>Maybe they can have it off by default and users can choose to enable later.</p> I haven’t upgraded yet, but I’d REALLY like that feature even though YAG (Your Average Grandma) would definitely be totally confused.

Atom has the advantage of fewer duplicate feed items (I’m not sure why but it’s something to do with hashing and how a feed won’t show up 2x when all that was changed was its post time or title, etc.). So, I’d love to be able to choose easily.

Maybe they can have it off by default and users can choose to enable later.

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