> get lamp

Changes to emails you receive for new video uploads from your subscriptions (August 6, 2020)

ARGH. So that's why I suddenly stopped getting new video notifications from Youtube back in August. Would have been nice if they'd, you know, sent out AN EMAIL NOTIFICATION about that. I'm not sure exactly what they were tracking to claim that "Less than 0.1% of these emails are opened" - like, could they only see usage through the GMail app or on the website, and not when mail was fetched to an email client via POP/IMAP? and does reading the mail in plain text rather than HTML make a difference? - but I relied heavily on it. It was in fact my only way of receiving such notifications; I don't have anything set up to receive push notifications (nor do I want them) and I don't really go look at my Subscriptions, although now I guess I'm going to have to. So this joins the ranks of Google Reader and iGoogle in "dammit Google I was using that" for a service they claim was not being used enough to justify its continued existence. Pfeh.

Has anyone found an iGoogle substitute that works on the same widget/gadget model? I tried Netvibes and Protopage and both of them seem to just expect me to fill in a single rss feed into each of a whole bunch of boxes on a page, so I can... I guess read a bunch of news feeds (though most of mine are not actually "news") individually side by side? Is that what they expect me to want to be doing? I have an rss reader (The Old Reader); I don't need to use a dashboard page that way.

I haven't yet tried igHome, which seems to operate more like what I have in mind, though I imagine the selection of widgets will be limited. Nor have I looked back at My Yahoo since... like... a silly "Web 2.0" project I had to do for work back in 2007. Maybe I should.

Going on a tangent: does anyone know how to construct the feed url for Flickr's "Interesting" photos? http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/ and http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/docs/photos_public/ don't give me enough information to work it out, probably because there's background knowledge they're expecting me to have that I don't have. ("interesting" photos don't seem to be tagged "interesting" or "explored" or whatever unless a user applies the tag.)