[Grumbledour]

This is a good time to remember the short span when Firefox actually would show an RSS Symbol in the address bar after it found a feed on the page, allowing you to click on it to view it and subscribe. I thought, the future of RSS was bright back then. They removed it shortly after.

That they removed even the formatted feed view a few years back was just an insult!

But they could also never manage to cash in on microformats. So much potential there.

[tobz1000]

And live bookmarks. This was the healthy way to read news from multiple sources before social media.

[severine]

Live bookmarks was how I started, and what I've come back to after all, using this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/

When I'm familiar with the source, the headlines are enough for me to know if I want to read, navigating the folders is super quick, and the feed indicator makes adding new ones very easy too.

[jetgirl]

Nothing was cooler than having a Feedburner bar on your website with a number showing how many subscribers you had.