{"id":346,"date":"2005-06-13T07:50:50","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/2005\/06\/13\/quoderat-the-case-against-easier-feed-subscriptions\/"},"modified":"2006-03-24T18:28:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T01:28:01","slug":"quoderat-the-case-against-easier-feed-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/quoderat-the-case-against-easier-feed-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Quoderat: The case against easier feed subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Megginson posted today about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megginson.com\/blogs\/quoderat\/archives\/2005\/06\/13\/the-case-against-easier-feed-subscriptions\/\">The case against easier feed subscriptions<\/a>, 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:<\/p>\n<p>\"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.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: \"Good point! The approach I'd favor...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/quoderat-the-case-against-easier-feed-subscriptions\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atomrss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}