You may have just heard it from me first: I know a guy that knows a guy that says that the next upcoming self-inflicted injury on the Reddit site is an imminent removal of the "old." prefix that has been used to un-fuck the interface and make it more bearably usable. They're already bleeding out users, especially active content-creating users, so this will only accelerate evacuations of the carnival tents as the circus fire spreads.
RSS feeds of the posts? Damn, that would be really useful for things like the megathreads. We're still stuck with just RSS feeds of comms and inboxes.
Yeah it's a really solid and robust system with far-reaching bonuses because of all the different ways you can use rss. I honestly credit it for a lot of reddit's early success.
It's most likely due to Swartz.
Yes absolutely, he developed web feed RSS itself.
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