RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google – Terence Eden’s Blog

kept by eddie may 05

Blogger Terence Eden finds RSS feeds and email subscribers drive more traffic to his personal site than Google Search over a 28-day period.

Google Reader was building the wrong future
Google Reader's true value was its accidental social network and curation layer, not feed reading, and its shutdown pushed users toward open protocols like RSS and email for direct creator connections.
also on #rss, Google
Making RSS More Fun
Hacker News commenters debate making RSS more engaging through algorithmic curation and discovery while cautioning against replicating TikTok's endless scroll model.
also on #rss, #tech-community, #user-experience
Critical CSS Generator - Kigo Studio
Kigo Studio’s Critical CSS Generator extracts above‑the‑fold styles, shows how to inline or defer them, and includes an HN discussion on its utility and concerns.
also on #search-engine, Google, #web-development, #user-experience, #developer-tools
One line of JavaScript disabled server rendering on 190 pages
A single window.innerWidth read during server render threw an error, causing Next.js to fall back to client-side rendering and produce soft 404s on ~190 pages.
also on #search-engine, Google, #web-development, #developer-tools