Comment by lou1306
5 months ago
> - Remove it if it hadn’t posted in the last few years. Some people blog extremely irregularly, but the likelihood is that most blogs that are 5+ years old aren’t coming back.
This I don't really understand. Following inactive feeds via RSS comes effectively at no cost for you. How does removing them improve the experience?
See my follow-on note at the end of the post, but also it’s just a psychological out-with-the-old-and-in-with-the-new point that marks a change.
It would be cool if you could somehow be notified when the ownership of a domain changes so you could take that action when it makes sense instead of preemptively killing subscriptions.
It may come at a cost in some SaaS RSS readers (which may allow a limited number of feeds on the free plan, for example).
It can be preventative against spam for when old domains expire/get sold and/or old blog service passwords get hacked.
I think about doing that sort of proactive cleanup sometimes. There's nothing quite as disappointing as seeing an old friend's blog show a new post for the first time in years only for it to be some spammer that just hacked their old password or some expired domain squatter saw RSS logs and decided to sell advertising on it or a once major blog host was sold to a Russian oligarch who purged the user database so more Russians could have good usernames (LiveJournal, lol).