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Use Tables!
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Use Tables! is a personal blog at gijsk.com about programming and web. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's 2018 post on Firefox removing built-in RSS and Live Bookmarks support, citing it as the source for that change. The comments do not assess the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2018-10-12
What Hacker News says?
This is what I mean by an attitude that doesn't contribute anything to the discussion at hand. They announced this change in October, and implemented it in December.[1] I don't understand why you were unable to make alternate arrangements in that time. It feels like you're going out of your way to find something to be angry about. In addition: >Firefox will tell you when support for Live Bookmarks has ended and will…
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on “Block Fingerprinting with Firefox”Submitted Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds as a story · 634 points
HN discussionGoogle Reader was great! Similarl to what I felt when Google Reader shut down, I was saddened when Mozilla removed RSS/Atom support from Firefox. I believe the decision had something to do with maintenance/performance/security concerns. As usual, there are no WebExtensions which match the functionality of the original feature. https://www.gijsk.com/blog/2018/10/firefox-removes-core-prod... https://bugzilla.mozilla.o…
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on “RIP Google Reader”Submitted Why doing visual refreshes of Firefox is hard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don't know what intention you had when you posted that link but it clearly disproves that anyone uses the terrible built-in RSS reader in firefox. Here, just take a look at the first response: >Literally 99.99% of Firefox users did not use the built in RSS support[1]. >I love RSS! I also never used the built in Firefox RSS support because it was not very good. Mozilla also compiled a helpful list of alternative RS…
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on “Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)”Literally 99.99% of Firefox users did not use the built in RSS support[1]. I love RSS! I also never used the built in Firefox RSS support because it was not very good. Mozilla also compiled a helpful list of alternative RSS readers for the 0.01% of users that used this feature and made it easy to export your feed list[2]. [1] https://www.gijsk.com/blog/2018/10/firefox-removes-core-prod... [2] https://support.mozilla…
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on “Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)”Concrete example of this: Mozilla removing RSS support because "[it has] outsized maintenance and security costs relative to their usage"[1]. I suspect that there's a high correlation between "power users" that used RSS and went through the settings to disable telemetry. [1] https://www.gijsk.com/blog/2018/10/firefox-removes-core-prod...
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on “Firefox Privacy How-To Guide”News feeds (RSS/Atom) are a fabulous technology. They’re not dead but this is the most recent cut in the killing of the Open Web with “death by a thousand cuts”¹. After the killing of Google Reader, the really big blow was when Mozilla (the closest we have to a “champion for the open web”) removed the built-in feed preview feature and subscription UI from Firefox 64²³. While this wasn’t a major problem for users lik…
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on “Google Groups kills RSS support without notice”Yup. Firefox had RSS support from first release in 2002 (inherited from Netscape, so even older than that) until 2018 when Mozilla decided it wasn't a priority. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202028 https://www.gijsk.com/blog/2018/10/firefox-removes-core-prod... I don't think Chrome ever supported RSS, though.
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on “Increasing the surface area of blogging”Don't forget Mozilla removing Live Bookmarks (RSS feeds showed up directly in your bookmarks menu) and RSS feed subscriptions in Firefox 64. https://www.gijsk.com/blog/2018/10/firefox-removes-core-prod...
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on “How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)”For me RSS reader in Firefox was the best idea hands down because of its simplicity and how well it was integrated with the browser: you'd click on that icon in the address bar and page with summary (originally you'd add feed directly to the bookmarks) and subscribe button would appear and then, modal asking where to put new channel/live bookmarks folder. With bookmarks bar on, you could have a handy folder or folde…
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on “RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information”
