Also use it every day, but there is something to be said about the issues with it, mainly that it’s invisible to most people. It’s very much a techie thing and I think the only reason it’s still around is because it’s default in a lot of site software. It’d be interesting to see what kind of engagement larger news organizations get from RSS links.
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#12> After all, The Onion is a publication that relies on syndication through Facebook and Twitter https://www.theonion.com/rss That didn't take long to find. Why use that as an example?
I think you misunderstood the point there. Facebook and Twitter is what drives traffic for The Onion. They can and do syndicate via RSS. But it doesn't help them reach most of their readers.
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#13Just came in to say I read this in a RSS reader.
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#14Inoreader is my main source of gathering news. Social Medias are IMO ill-equiped for this tasks, mainly drowning useful info in a ton of noise.
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#15Also use it every day, but there is something to be said about the issues with it, mainly that it’s invisible to most people. It’s very much a techie thing and I think the only reason it’s still around is because it’s default in a lot of site software. It’d be interesting to see what kind of engagement larger news organizations get from RSS links.
> It’s very much a techie thing and I think the only reason it’s still around is because it’s default in a lot of site software.
"WordPress powers 31% of the internet.", according to wordpress.com and Wordpress has RSS built in and ON by default.
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#16I still use it every day. I run a python script through Cron that parses a list of feeds and caches new items in a sqlite database. Then it pulls the most recent 100 items out of the database and generates a static html page in which I read them
This is what I've been telling my grandmother to do, but for some reason she keeps using Facebook instead.
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#17As a maintainer of the FeedIron plugin for Tiny Tiny RSS I see RSS as quite alive and kicking.
https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron
On occasion I have needed to use a site parser like rss-bridge but honestly it's so rare that a site doesn't have rss (albeit often hidden from view). Just a hint for people searching for rss feeds the most common I find are:
/rss
/rss.xml
/feed
/feed.xml
/index.php/feed
/index?format=xml
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#18I tried using twitter to get news before. But the news magazines I subscribed to on twitter tweeted out the same article more than once. It was rather frustrating.
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#19RSS is a nice format, but it'd be even nicer as json.
Recently had a client that needed me to read their RSS feed into email templates and update their template after they switched their email service. First time working with RSS. 10/10, would do so again.
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#20RSS never died. On the contrary, its usage for content aggregation & monitoring has been increasing over the years, specially in the business world and niche markets.
I'm speaking from my own experience running Feedity - https://feedity.com, a growing startup that helps with custom feeds for unstructured sources like webpages.