{"id":9439,"date":"2014-09-02T14:48:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9439"},"modified":"2014-09-02T14:48:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:48:02","slug":"discourse-reaches-1-0-without-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/02\/discourse-reaches-1-0-without-rss\/","title":{"rendered":"Discourse Reaches 1.0, Without RSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.discourse.org\/2014\/08\/introducing-discourse-1-0\/\">Jeff Atwood<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.discourse.org\/2014\/08\/introducing-discourse-1-0\/\"><p>Version numbers are <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codinghorror.com\/whats-in-a-version-number-anyway\/\">arbitrary<\/a>, yes, but V1 does signify something in public. <b>We believe Discourse is now ready for wide public use<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s not to say Discourse can&rsquo;t be improved &#8211; I have a mile-long list of things we still want to do. But products that are in perpetual beta are a cop-out. Eventually you have to ditch the crutch of the word &ldquo;beta&rdquo; and be brave enough to say, yes, <i>we&rsquo;re ready<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meta.discourse.org\/t\/rss-support-for-categories-topics\/2075\">Jeff Atwood<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/johngordon\/post\/37544118\">John Gordon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/meta.discourse.org\/t\/rss-support-for-categories-topics\/2075\"><p>I am of the belief that RSS is kind of a semi-dead format at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>However if someone submitted a GitHub pull request that added proper RSS support, I wouldn't turn it down!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I loved the idea of Discourse, but I remain <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/civilized-discourse-construction-kit\/\">unimpressed<\/a> with it so far. In my view, the current design is user-hostile, to the point where I avoid forums that use it. I prefer to visit sites that use any number of low-tech forums from before Web 2.0. Not including RSS support seems to underscore that their vision for what the product should be is radically different from mine.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Atwood: Version numbers are arbitrary, yes, but V1 does signify something in public. We believe Discourse is now ready for wide public use. That&rsquo;s not to say Discourse can&rsquo;t be improved &#8211; I have a mile-long list of things we still want to do. But products that are in perpetual beta are a cop-out. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[321,52,96],"class_list":["post-9439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-discourse","tag-rss","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9440,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions\/9440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}