I am working on this side project where people can blog and it's very simple. I was just wondering if I should implement RSS for people to follow their favourite blogger. My audience is mostly Hacker news type of people (<3 ) . So do you still use RSS to follow your favourite blogs?
Oh yeah.<p>And it's not just people with RSS readers. New initiatives like <a href="http://micro.blog" rel="nofollow">http://micro.blog</a> read your RSS feed to allow people to follow you, favorite particular blog entries, share them etc.
Yes, and if a blog doesn't have a feed I generally don't keep track of it – only very few resources are important enough to follow by going there individually.
Yes, Not only does it allow people that use RSS readers, but people who use readers that build on RSS.<p>Also allow email syndication. A non-insignificant number of people use email syndication as a fallback from RSS, or simply a solution in itself. Pre-ramen plans should be cost-free.
I subscribe to around sixty RSS feeds. I check them daily using NetNewsWire 3.3. It's my belief that any site publishing original static content, such as a blog or a news publication, should make their new content available via one or more RSS/Atom feeds. If you're concerned that readers won't visit your website and see your ads, then provide the first paragraph in the feed and give readers a link to the entire post.
Too bad there isn't a great RSS software company. It seems like someone should have created a ubiquitous RSS app. Maybe I should go do that... brb
I use RSS with Blogtrottr to get updates by email. But I prefer it when the blog has its own newsletter. Saves me the trip to Blogtrottr and receiving their ads on each email.