There's a few megacorps who would just love to extinguish RSS (including
Atom in that definition), but I suspect it's coming back at least for a
lot of small blogs (much easier to manage than email), and it's still
available for major news sites.
I recently started using it again... some time since last year?
Thunderbird supports RSS, so if you're using that for email then you've
at least got something on hand that can do RSS.
I've subscribed to the feed you've linked, thanks for posting it.
An argument in favour of RSS against email is that the former doesn't
involve handing over your email address. As someone who cares about
privacy, I'd rather not hand email addresses out willy-nilly. Plus I
remember a time when email spam *really* took off, and suddenly I was
receiving email for underpriced overpriced watches, underpriced
overpriced operating systems, and certain blue-coloured medication. So
having a more privacy-preserving and sanity-preserving way to read posts
is good.
Of course, RSS is read-only, so if I need to report a bug or
something... well, here I am.
As for seeing updates to packages... I tend to use release candidates
and final releases of FreeDOS and often don't end up updating things
much, but if I were to take a more active role in following the latest
updates then an RSS feed of the latest updates would be helpful. And by
that point, maybe I'd implement the support for it for you :)
(even though I've never made my own RSS feeds, so that would be a
learning experience)
On 27/04/2025 04:59, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote:
I think RSS is still used. I know that people access the RSS feed for
some other websites where I write articles, and I subscribe to the RSS
feed for several news websites. So it's definitely used.
I don't know how many people use it, but the www.freedos.org website
has an RSS feed for the news items. And a few people have emailed me
over the years when there's a "hiccup" and SourceForge doesn't update
the feed for a day:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="FreeDOS |
What's New" href="https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/feed.rss";>
I think the focus isn't "do people use RSS feeds anymore" but is
instead "who will read the news items in the RSS feed." Will people
want to subscribe to the RSS to see package updates at the repository
level? Or will people just watch for announcements about new versions
on the freedos-devel email list? And/or will those people see those
announcements anyway when they are posted as news items on the
www.freedos.org website?
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
<freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Hi All,
Does anybody use RSS anymore?
As far as I know, all the major web browsers (at least the ones I use
regularly),
dropped support for RSS many years ago.
The main reason I ask is in regards to the upcoming FDRepo v3.
The current FDRepo v2 has an RSS feed that is lists new package updates.
However, I never received any feedback in regards to that feature.
This leads me to think precisely zero people ever used it.
I think since RSS has been relegated to obscurity and the lack of apparent
users to the update feeds in the repositories, the feature will not be included
in FDRepo v3. At least not initially.
Then later on, if there is sufficient complaining about not providing the update
RSS feed, I find the time and feel like it eventually add support for it into
v3 of
FDRepo.
After all, it does not take long to get complaints when a feature someone
uses disappears. For example, when preparing the download repositories
for FreeDOS1.4. I preformed a clean-up and deleted a a bunch of stuff.
One thing I deleted was the automatically generated ISOs of all the packages
in the repositories. By design, FDRepo v2 would keep that ISO up to date.
However, if it did not exist, it would start maintaining one unless
specifically told
to do so. It took about 2 days before I started hearing “where is my ISO?"
It is not difficult to create the feed. I just don’t see a point in doing that
extra
work for something nobody uses.
Oh BTW, Stage 2 is moving along great. If all continues to go well, v3 will
hopefully be ready for use around the end of this month.
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