But on a first glance, it seems like alternate links for channels are back, but playlists are missing. Still, that might be a step forward.
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You keep repeating this throughout the thread. Can you give an example?
The other problem is that the responses will be skewed depending on where you choose to advertise this survey and who's more passionate about taking it. Posting it here would likely trigger responses from those more inclined to say "rss is not dead", since that's what the overwhelming sentiment is here.
I can only conclude that you likely already know the survey is pointless, but it's being used to advertise for your RSS reader (you plug that in on multiple places on the site). You'd probably be better off just advertising your RSS reader instead.
(2) I really am mad at Rachel for this and that's from someone who's been writing webcrawlers [1] since 1998, been an RSS innovator, and been responsible for complex systems when they fail.
(3) Maybe I am missing it but I don't see an actual feed for that URL, I see only an OPML file. Dave is really gay [2] for OPML files but I'm not because I still have to work to fetch all the items. Yet, visually the OPML file and blogroll look like a planet and you're not the first person who's pointed Dave's blogroll as a solution as opposed to the problem that I see it is.
(4) Looking at the head of the list I think "Daily Kos" and "404 Media" suck but that I already subscribe to many of them like "Arstechica" -- looking at the tail of the list I see there are gems that I'm not getting. If those things were getting aggregated topically it would please both me and Rachel.
[1] that don't crash your server
[2] in a good sense!
Don't know what you're so angry with Rachel about. I provide feeds for readers and many of them are way too greedy and frequently do hammer websites, often unneccessarily. Mix in all the rampant AI bots and you got a recipe for an extremely expensive server bill.
Getting angry at someone who's trying to keep their server costs down to provide you something for free is kind of weird.
[1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/en/content-negotiation...