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Death of a Subscription

I've done it. They're gone.

I'm subscribed to a fair few blogs, which I enjoy reading immensely (most of the time). But lately there's been a couple of feeds which just get on my nerves, and I figured it was time to do something about it.

As a result, I'm now unsubscribed from two feeds - weblogs.asp.net, and dotnetjunkies (don't worry Thomas, I'm subscribed to your blog still!).

Notice how they're both aggregate feeds? weblogs.asp.net used to be a tech feed. Now it's mostly junk. I subscribe individually to a few members of this site, but I'm sick of the rubbish that appears on the main feed.

Dotnetjunkies...well, I don't want to be too rude, so I'll keep my mouth shut. Let's just say that in this case it's not so much the content of the feed as the site itself. I know I myself started off there (as did a lot of us codebetter guys), but I've had enough. I'll say no more, or I'll just rant on and on and on :)

So goodbye you two feeds. You were probably the first two feeds I ever subscribed to, but it's time to spread your wings and fly away.

Listening to: eve of destruction - barry mcguire - (3:35)
Posted: Thursday, August 11, 2005 1:41 AM by Geoff Appleby
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Darrell said:

Unsubscribing to those 2 feeds was quite liberating... glad to see you finally joined the club! :)
# August 11, 2005 9:56 AM

Eric Newton said:

I'm so with you, man... For a long time (basically pre April) weblogs.asp.net used to be a wealth of information for CODING and Web Developement and so forth.

After the elections, some of the bloggers couldn't resist pasting their opinions of politics at the time, and still others were posting in a totally different language than English! Nothing against foreign language speakers, but seriously guys, its an English targetted web site...

I even asked to be a part of weblogs.asp.net, but it seemed to be reserved for an "inner circle" and friends of them.

So yeah, weblogs.asp.net lost my RSS reader for a while.

Yeah, I still check back once a week. But the noise frequency is steadily going up.
# August 11, 2005 10:27 AM

Josh said:

Not to be too critical, but this is the kind of post that helps continue the dilution of codebetter.com. When I first read about codebetter, there seemed to be a mission statement that the posts on the main feed would be code-focused, and avoid all the peripheral chatter that comes out of the 2 feeds you mention. Great, subscribed!

Unfortunately, I've noticed more and more that this focus is fading. Do your part to bring it back!
# August 11, 2005 12:31 PM

Chris Ongsuco said:

>> I even asked to be a part of weblogs.asp.net, but it seemed to be reserved for an "inner circle" and friends of them.

Really?! I never thought that there would be politics there.
# August 11, 2005 10:36 PM

JosephCooney said:

I'm not really a fan of "aggregated" feeds at all (including CodeBetter). I only subscribe to individual feeds.
# August 12, 2005 1:22 AM

Geoff Appleby said:

Just so long as you keep reading mine, Joseph, that's all I expect from you :)
# August 12, 2005 2:47 AM

Jay Kimble said:

Believe it or not I do the same as Joe... Yes, I have the entire CodeBetter team subscribed.

This way if someone I've subscribed to begins to annoy me I can easily remove them from my subscriptions.

I also like to know more about the subscribers than just their content... if you and I met somewhere and all I knew about you was your tech content then we would have a very shallow conversation about programming (OK, it would be fun to geek out).

Because I read your full blog, we could talk about your 2 daughters and how the older one is adjusting to being a big sister, are you sleeping OK, etc. We would have a much better rounded conversation...
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