This is such a great point! I think that you're right on target about aggregation. It's one of the design principles in the Crossroads roadmap, and the recent addition of "blog aggregation" is a step in the evolution of that process.
For publishing RSS feeds: this is happening right now. However, we have the entire site available only to logged-in users during this alpha testing phase. Why? Because we want to make a good first impression when we announce the site to the world. We don't want people saying, "There should be reviews!" or "You should be able to tag things geographically."
So, for this private alpha stage, you can only read the RSS feeds for Crossroads in a feedreader that supports cookie-based logins. As far as I know, the only feedreaders that do this are Firefox's Live Bookmarks and the Sage in-browser reader, as Reen mentioned.
When we get to a public beta (expected in the next month or two), we'll open the doors to the public. Everything on Crossroads will be readable by anyone -- blogs, photos, reviews, and RSS feeds.
We could spend more time trying to optimize this private alpha period for testers, but I for one would rather concentrate effort on getting things ready for real production use.
evan
Agreed
This is such a great point! I think that you're right on target about aggregation. It's one of the design principles in the Crossroads roadmap, and the recent addition of "blog aggregation" is a step in the evolution of that process.
For publishing RSS feeds: this is happening right now. However, we have the entire site available only to logged-in users during this alpha testing phase. Why? Because we want to make a good first impression when we announce the site to the world. We don't want people saying, "There should be reviews!" or "You should be able to tag things geographically."
So, for this private alpha stage, you can only read the RSS feeds for Crossroads in a feedreader that supports cookie-based logins. As far as I know, the only feedreaders that do this are Firefox's Live Bookmarks and the Sage in-browser reader, as Reen mentioned.
When we get to a public beta (expected in the next month or two), we'll open the doors to the public. Everything on Crossroads will be readable by anyone -- blogs, photos, reviews, and RSS feeds.
We could spend more time trying to optimize this private alpha period for testers, but I for one would rather concentrate effort on getting things ready for real production use.