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Ask HN: Does anyone still use RSS readers?

4 pointsby laksmanvover 8 years ago

8 comments

drdecaover 8 years ago
I do!<p>If you are making something that would make sense to include an rss feed, please include an rss feed.<p>Rss is great!<p>Edit: It is a standard useful format for a common purpose&#x2F;use.<p>You know every irritating thing that some websites with their own dashboard feed system thing do, like rearranging the order of things, or only showing the things that &#x2F;they&#x2F; think are important, and ignoring user stated preferences?<p>With rss you don&#x27;t have those problems.<p>Rss respects user choice.<p>It allows users to follow their stated preferences, instead of what the website thinks are their revealed preferences.
mindcrimeover 8 years ago
Of course we do, RSS is indispensable. Forget the &quot;RSS is dead&quot; crowd, because it really isn&#x27;t. It&#x27;s not <i>trendy</i> like it used to be, and arguably didn&#x27;t &quot;take over the world&quot;. But there&#x27;s a lot of ground between &quot;dead&quot; and &quot;rule the world&quot;. RSS is awesome and everybody should continue to produce and consume it where it makes sense.
niftichover 8 years ago
To avoid a thread filled entirely with confirmation bias, I&#x27;ll post to say I used to use RSS extensively until about 5 years ago. I never used Google Reader, so the fate of that product didn&#x27;t affect me.<p>Mostly, my appetite for news has changed, in that I went from passively consuming news to seeking out particular sites and reading more articles -- and also, because of HN, I discover more news than I could organically follow through RSS on my own.
mutagenover 8 years ago
While I&#x27;ve scaled back my use, mostly as a part of a info-diet, I still use one.
lsiunsuexover 8 years ago
A few mid 20s post grade writers of one of my sites recently asked me if I could implement RSS feeds for their blog posts. I asked the same thing.<p>Easy enough to code the feeds - if someone has a need for it, why not.
Neliquatover 8 years ago
Yes. Adoption never waned, only implementation. Not as hip an monitizable as social buttons. Therefore less pressure on devs to support it. Find a way to push ads, and watch it take off again.
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leoreevesover 8 years ago
I used to use them a lot more but got overwhelmed by the amount of content of some of the websites I read were posting. They are very useful though for following multiple blogs.
Binoover 8 years ago
Protip: I fetch github commit logs etc as RSS. Just add .atom to many github URLs.