On 14/03/2018 14:16, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 3/14/18 7:03 AM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote:
Unfortunately, our web feed implementation is pretty unused.
Not least because it's not discoverable, ever since we removed the
"there is a feed link on this page" icon, right?
The toolbar button still exists but it is no longer part of the UI by
default, no. You can still see this state by just opening the "old"
bookmarks menu. Note that a significant number of large websites (e.g.
CNN, BBC, WSJ, ...) also no longer advertise RSS semantically (even if
there are still feeds available for them if you go looking), so that
button doesn't buy you much in terms of discoverability anymore anyway.
(I don't disagree with any of what you said; I just think that the feed
bits were effectively dead once we removed that UI, and I'm not sure why
we didn't remove them then.)
We removed it for Firefox 4 (bug 578967), when I believe we were more
reluctant to actually remove rarely-used functionality completely,
preferring to leave it to zombie on. Though 8 years ago, I would also
totally buy that the landscape at the time wouldn't have justified
removing live bookmarks and the feed preview outright, even if it did
justify not having that orange icon take up primary UI space in the
location bar for everyone. :-)
~ Gijs
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