Where did RSS go in Safari 6???

Yes. There are tons on tons supplied of almost everything in the world. The really hard question for everyone supplying any-thing is why I should buy X instead of the remaining characters offered in the whole alphabet.

Maybe it would be a brilliant idea to remove the web-browsing engine out of Safari and move it over to an independent app and thereby transform the Safari web-browser into a book-keeping and bookmarking-system that takes care of users links to all the other apps that would be required to use the Internet on the Internet of the Internet.

I probably have to downgrade my machine-park back to earth if this silly absurdness is to stand. I don't have time for a half-browser in the year of 2012.

Looks like irrationality is a common trait amongst those complaining about RSS in this thread. I guess Gunnar won't be using the Chrome half-browser or the Firefox half-browser since they both lack built in RSS funcitonality.

erebos wrote:

Looks like irrationality is a common trait amongst those complaining about RSS in this thread. I guess Gunnar won't be using the Chrome half-browser or the Firefox half-browser since they both lack built in RSS funcitonality.

You all sound like a bunch of babies who had your pacifiers taken away, and thats the gods honest truth. I hope you can figure out how to point and click your way through the appstore to find an RSS reader like the users of Chrome and Firefox do.

erebos wrote:

You all sound like a bunch of babies who had your pacifiers taken away, and thats the gods honest truth. I hope you can figure out how to point and click your way through the appstore to find an RSS reader like the users of Chrome and Firefox do.

michjunge wrote:

Just leave erebos alone, don't drag this thread to the gutter by getting offended by him. Replies will only escalate.

Some people do find logic offensive, especially when they lack the facility to grasp it. So I'd agree with you in that replies should be limited to those who can communicate with more than a pictograph or whiney "but mommy I want THAT one" temper tanrums...

Your are quite right Erebos. Gunnar will never use Chrome. It is just a trawling soup device pulling tiny small fishes into their flame of burned feeds. And if the Google non-customer-search-engine-company continues on this path to self-destruct, then, by all means, they are entitled to do so. Let them. But we are aint going to follow. Let them. Apple on the other hand should continue to be proud of things they never did and always remember rule number X.

We can figure out how to do that, but that's not the issue. The reason the users of Chrome and Firefox would search for alternative RSS readers is because they had to. I've seen the RSS implementations there. I couldn't leave Safari back when Firefox was "in" and later when Chrome was the fastest cat on the track because the RSS implemetations were so inferior.

But now that's been rudely taken from us and that is what we complain about. If you insist on calling us babies, then call Apple the parent-killer because that would be similarly appropriate.

absolutely ridiculous. steve wouldn't have allowed this. why do i need this useless reader for offline browsing? who is offline ever? give us back rss with mac simplicity cause the rss readers in the app store suck.

Man this thread has been going on for a while now...

I did a bit of searching around on why RSS was removed. It wasn't until recently I also had realized that a lot of big sites are slowly moving away from RSS opting for having their content be read through Facebook or Twitter or some other social site. I don't know the full decsision on why they are doing this but it seems to be a growing trend of mixing news content and your social circles.

I think Apple has taken notice of this growing trend and went ahead and removed support for RSS because of this. You see that they are integrating Twitter and, soon, Facebook into OS X. You can almost get the same effect of RSS with Twitter by following all of the news content that you would normally get with RSS.

So I wouldn't blame Apple on this. Blame a changing market. Apple is just following in the footsteps of trending movements. RSS is slowly going away. Most of my most visited sites have removed RSS in favor of social networks.

Again, I don't know why people want to mix news content with social circles but apparently they do and that is where it is going.

EDIT:

Also recently read that even Google Reader will sooner or later be merged into Google+. For now it stands alone but even it will slowly go away in the near future.

What I'm starting to do is move my Google Reader subscriptions over to my twitter account. I don't use the account for much anyways. I'll keep Facebook for friends/family/etc and keep twitter for news. For now.

here's just one, very simple example of how I use RSS to make categorized and very specific searched lists:

(of course if you're in Safari 6, the following link won't work)

craigslist search: audi allroad - max price: $8500 - has images - Westsde L.A.

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feed://losangeles.craigslist.org/search/cta/wst?hasPic=1&maxAsk=8500&query=allro ad&srchType=T&format=rss

I totally get the move to the whole social monster but this kinda listable RSS search with specific variables just doesn't translate in the "social services."

Not to mention the ever demising lack of anonymity with social... They, including our beloved Apple, want to track us and our individual online movements more and more as they make more money of our trackable habits. I'll say it again; we have become the commodity.

anonymous really is the new famous.

Message was edited by: nybe

guess what; RSS links don't work in these forums anymore.

nybe wrote:

anonymous really is the new famous.

Logically if anonymity is fame, then fame is anonymity.

So pick a name, a password, and an email address, and start acting out your new made up life.

My dire prediction for the future is that we lose our identities and become nameless automatons, but only online. Assuming it's an option to be offline. Anyhow, if it's bad for the species evoution will just make us stronger and then we'll (the masses) will have yet another bloody revolution. Eventually the people in control will stop shooting themselves in the foot or driving us to slaughter them.

Gunnar, if you are using Lion and the safari RSS is that important to you - consider adding Safari 5.1.7 back to your system (if you have access to it in Time Machine or a Mac that wasn't updated, just copy the v5.1.7 package out of Applications - should be about 40MB) on your v6 Lion system make a new directory in the Applications folder (like Old Safari) and drop the v5.1.7 package in there - it runs just fine (at the moment) with RSS working again (don't run both at the same time since they share user files and corruption could occur).

Other folks have pointed out that the Safari v6 Developer Preview 2 uninstaller actually works on the released version of v6 (which actually saves a backup copy of v5.1.7 for this) on Lion. Now Apple has recently taken this down from their Developer website but a friend of mine said he was able to find it online (not a lot of places), said a search for the file name "safari_6_developer_preview_2_for_lion_uninstaller.dmg" the first return had the file but not much else.

These guys seemed to know what they were doing:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/57916/how-do-you-remove-safari-6-on-mac -os-x-10-7-4/60872#60872

I'm back to running on v5.1.7 (not a great long term solution since security updates aren't happening on 5), after the v6 upgrade and holy stuff moment, cause the Safari RSS implementation is worth it to me.

Thank your for your kind advice Sasparilla 256

We have decided to go back to Snow Leopard on all our stuff. We will use the Migration Assistant to recover from this mess. It will take some time, but that time is better spent on that rather than continuing glamouring around the Internet in Safari 6 without a compass. We have lost many workhours because of this. Enough is enough. Maybe we will drop by again in the future and pick some useful stuff up, once Apple arrives back form space to mother earth again.

Cheers, and may the Force be with you

You're welcome Gunnar, good luck with your rollback to Snow Leopard, ahhh Rosetta, real non iPad looking scroll bars, Save As menu options...things users liked....I remember those... 😉

I have to confess I've been considering rolling back to Snow Leopard from Lion just to enjoy it a little while longer (I've got a disk image I made before clean installing Lion several months ago) since security updates only stopped this last month.

If Snow Leopard was still getting security updates (it still should be getting them IMHO, just doing security updates for the current 2 releases when you've shifted over to a 1 year release schedule is dumb, dumb, dumb - future security updates stop after 2 years on that schedule...), I'd be there with you in a heartbeat (although the iCloud integration to my phone and iPad in Lion is great).

Best of luck Gunnar.