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

posted by jangro on (2 years, 4 months ago)

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:

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:

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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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  • jangro saved this to Blogging 2 years, 4 months ago
  • Posted by Sam Harrelson 2 years, 4 months ago

    No doubt... this is one of the main reasons I still use Firefox when I go blog spelunking. Copy and pasting a feed url into Reader or another RSS reader is just so not 2010 :)

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  • Posted by Chris 2 years, 4 months ago

    Hey thanks for the heads up - you're totally right - I've not spent as much time on my blog as I should - only recently started blogging again.

    Will fix it up!

    Chris

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    Posted by jangro 2 years, 4 months ago

    Yeah, I've finally ditched Chrome and am jumping back on Firefox. I can't believe they've launched Chrome like this.

  • Posted by Sam Harrelson 2 years, 4 months ago

    I still think they had to get it out of the door before the Holiday code
    freeze since it was decreed to be out in '09. Shipping in early '10 would
    have a) looked bad and b) competed with the Google Phone.

    I'm thinking Chrome (Mac) will be in beta for a long while at this rate.

    However, some of the dev builds of Chromium are quite nice and include
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    I'm thinking of just deleting off Chrome and going back to Chromium.

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  • Posted by benchrest 2 years, 4 months ago

    I got rid of chrome and went back to firefox. It was a good turn-around for me

  • Posted by nydivorcelawyer 2 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for the RSS information. My blog readers have been having similar problems. This helped sort it out. Cheers!

  • Posted by idealsofts 2 years, 4 months ago

    My readers said that to me many time, thanx

  • Posted by idealsofts 2 years, 4 months ago

    My readers said that to me many time, thanx

  • Posted by Anti Candida Diet 2 years, 4 months ago

    Wow, thanks for that! I was actually about to switch to google chrome but based on a few things I've read lately I think I'll hold off until it's a little more refined. The only thing that still draws me towards chrome is their unique landing page where-by you can visually display your most commonly visited sites. Which for myself would be a huge benefit since I have about 10 websites I use every day.

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    hey that is right, the chrome is ridiculous. I agree with you.. thats why I prefer firefox than chrome..

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    thank you.

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  • Posted by Charles 2 years, 4 months ago

    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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    I agree - it should be in there.

  • Posted by Adm 2 years, 2 months ago

    I hope the improvement of Chrome will increasingly grow in the future. So, this problem can be solved as soon as possible.

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  • Posted by Phil 2 years, 2 months ago

    I already followed to your twitter. I'll check if I could subscribe thru RSS.

  • Posted by dobfinder 2 years, 2 months ago

    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.

  • Posted by lr 2 years, 1 month ago

    Like your blog and follow your rss now too

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    Chrome is goona take over the world in my opinion. Just a few oversights away...

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  • Posted by Shravan 2 years ago

    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

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  • Posted by LJP 1 year, 11 months ago

    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.


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