The internet can feel like it's built for speed.
You join a new service and you're presented with a feed. The name tells you all you need to know. The feed is the actor. You are the thing that is acted upon. You don't control the feed. Your role is
How’s visiting dozens of pages different from visiting dozens of websites?
And BTW, on sites where feeds are in fashion, maybe some kind of Usenet upgraded for HTML and Markdown and post\author hyperlinks would be more in place.
No. You have a toolbox, it’s called a web browser. To unite the particular websites you have a web ring, or your own bookmarks. There were also web catalogues.
Bookmark at not intuitive enough to me and RSS feeds are still feeds that have no interaction features like the writer of this article like.
I am always for giving the most power to users. I like compromises like user settings so people who want a feed with interactions can and who doesn’t can disable it
How’s visiting dozens of pages different from visiting dozens of websites?
And BTW, on sites where feeds are in fashion, maybe some kind of Usenet upgraded for HTML and Markdown and post\author hyperlinks would be more in place.
Visiting feeds is like using tools from one organized toolbox. Visiting many websites is like jumping between many separate toolboxes
No. You have a toolbox, it’s called a web browser. To unite the particular websites you have a web ring, or your own bookmarks. There were also web catalogues.
Bookmark at not intuitive enough to me and RSS feeds are still feeds that have no interaction features like the writer of this article like.
I am always for giving the most power to users. I like compromises like user settings so people who want a feed with interactions can and who doesn’t can disable it