Let's just say that if it wasn't for RSS, I wouldn't have seen this page.
Neither would I.
Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?
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Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?
#72I cannot and don't want to imagine a web without RSS.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
RSS has largely become invisible. Many CMSs just support it, which is great if you use RSS, and irrelevant if you don't. Many RSS readers are flexible enough to find the feed if you point at a site's base URL too, so while that implicit contract is in place, life is good. However, that very invisibility might prove to be its downfall: RSS is so incredibly useful to those who know about it that the only way to keep it…
I just posted a long comment at the top level of this thread. ;-)
I just want to take a moment to hat-tip a legendary dev. I've heard of you at LEAST since MORE for the Mac rocked the sales charts when I was a teen (I also FONDLY miss Macworld Expos, attended a bunch of them!) Thanks for being an awesome nerd!
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?
#74I use The Old Reader to follow around 500 feeds. Basically all of them are blogs and sites that update less than once per week. I get a few new items per day into my reading list this way. I newer use feeds of news sites that have a lot of traffic, like HN. I visit those directly. For me, RSS or Atom is the only usable way to keep up with rarely-updated sites. Twitter is too-fast moving, since it's very easy to miss…
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