I am more upset that Firefox never really did anything with RSS. Killing projects is kind of Google thing. But Firefox markets itself as the free and open alternative, yet just repeats all the bad things Google does. The little RSS support that Firefox had was removed in 2018.
That said, more broadly speaking I think RSS was and still is fundamentally flawed. It exists has this weird thing outside the Web instead of just being Metadata on the Web itself. The information inside RSS should have been something you can automatically generate by parsing good old HTML markup, not something the server has to provide separately.
Despite all the hype around “Semantic Web”, there is still nothing semantic about the Web. Even extremely common markup elements are missing (e.g. no markup for forum comments and replies, everybody still has to use <div>). At least we finally got a <time> tag, but even that came well over a decade late and plenty of sites are still not using it (this one here).
I am more upset that Firefox never really did anything with RSS. Killing projects is kind of Google thing. But Firefox markets itself as the free and open alternative, yet just repeats all the bad things Google does. The little RSS support that Firefox had was removed in 2018.
That said, more broadly speaking I think RSS was and still is fundamentally flawed. It exists has this weird thing outside the Web instead of just being Metadata on the Web itself. The information inside RSS should have been something you can automatically generate by parsing good old HTML markup, not something the server has to provide separately.
Despite all the hype around “Semantic Web”, there is still nothing semantic about the Web. Even extremely common markup elements are missing (e.g. no markup for forum comments and replies, everybody still has to use <div>). At least we finally got a <time> tag, but even that came well over a decade late and plenty of sites are still not using it (this one here).