Hey, I can’t subscribe to your RSS feed!

by Scott Jangro on 30 December 2009

RSS isn’t quite dead yet. If you’re relying on the browser to provide access to your RSS feed, you’re leaving a bit too much to chance.

Understandably, we’ve all become very used to our browsers auto-detecting a blog’s RSS feeds and providing a link somewhere up in the browser interface.

Like in Firefox we have a convenient RSS button in the address bar:

Chris Saad – Paying Attention | Personal Blog of Chris Saad.png

Problem is, Google Chrome (at least on OS X) doesn’t have this basic browser feature yet (which is just ridiculous).

So when I’m using Chrome, I can’t easily subscribe to Chris Saad’s blog, for example:

Chris Saad – Paying Attention | Personal Blog of Chris Saad.jpg

Sure, I can enter the blog’s URL into Google reader. Or I could open up Firefox. But don’t make me work for it. An RSS link is basic stuff that should just be there in your blog’s template.

(Sorry to pick on you Chris. I see this all the time. Yours was just the final straw.)

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  • That is one gut-wrenching story.I am quite surprised with your nice article. The great thing is that you never know what kind of response you are going to get. "Wow"
  • LJP
    This happened to me. I found a blog that I absolutely LOVED and couldn't find the RSS button anywhere. I had to track him down on Twitter and eventually got it sorted. I totally agree that you can't make people work this hard to simply subscribe to your posts.
  • Last sentence what you want to say i can not understand. Google chrome not provides this feature than us firefox and today most of internet users uses Firefox
  • I already followed to your twitter. I'll check if I could subscribe thru RSS.
  • Adm
    I hope the improvement of Chrome will increasingly grow in the future. So, this problem can be solved as soon as possible.
  • I agree - it should be in there.
  • I am happy to read your blog and admit the webmaster has done a very good job by putting all the information content at one place. I'd like to recommend it with reference to my website http://www.pctechoutlet.com
  • Thanks to a cool Google Chrome i can easily subscribe more power
  • thank you.
  • Hey man this is good stuff on rss feeds because I had the same problem subscribing to rss feeds a while ago. Great Post keep up the hard work.
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