Lazycoder

Why do people subscribe to the main weblogs.asp.net feed

Scripting News: 9/12/2004

DUH! Because ALL of the blogs.msdn.com and weblogs.asp.net feeds are aggregated there. If people don’t subscribe to the main feed, they have a much smaller chance of discovering when someone new and interesting to them starts blogging at the site. As big of a pain in the ass as that main feed is, if it weren’t for that every friggin’ blogger there would feel it necessary to annouce a new blogger. Which means users would see a bunch of “hey, so-and-so is blogging.” posts every time someone new started. Bleh.

In my opinion, the biggest problem here is that Microsoft took over a community site, weblogs.asp.net, without anyone really thinking through how the system, .Text, works and how it would scale given their ambitions.