http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2005/06/13/the-case-against-easier-feed-subscriptions/ what was Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:24:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2005/06/13/the-case-against-easier-feed-subscriptions/#comment-2991 Alpha Gecko » Quoderat: The case against easier feed subscriptions Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:28:29 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=52#comment-2991 [...] David Megginson posted today about The case against easier feed subscriptions, noting that if it’s too easy to subscribe to a feed, it will also be too easy to sneak a subscription into someone’s feed reader and use it for illegitimate purposes. The response I posted was as follows: [...] [...] David Megginson posted today about The case against easier feed subscriptions, noting that if it’s too easy to subscribe to a feed, it will also be too easy to sneak a subscription into someone’s feed reader and use it for illegitimate purposes. The response I posted was as follows: [...]

]]> http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2005/06/13/the-case-against-easier-feed-subscriptions/#comment-841 Antone Roundy Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:46:52 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/?p=52#comment-841 Good point! The approach I'd favor would be to make it easy to view a feed, but require another click to subscribe to it. It's a little odd to me that feed readers require you to subscribe to a feed in order to view it. Subscribing to a feed is like bookmarking a webpage. While your web browser may keep a temporary history of every page you've viewed, it doesn't bookmark all of them automatically. Feed readers should offer this same mode of operation. Good point! The approach I’d favor would be to make it easy to view a feed, but require another click to subscribe to it. It’s a little odd to me that feed readers require you to subscribe to a feed in order to view it. Subscribing to a feed is like bookmarking a webpage. While your web browser may keep a temporary history of every page you’ve viewed, it doesn’t bookmark all of them automatically. Feed readers should offer this same mode of operation.

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