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Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
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Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#82RSS the protocol, or RSS the experience? The Protocol is alive and kicking, as far as being available, but it's been more or less killed by publishers not promoting it out of the box. AFAIK ad revenue is basically the reason. The replacement set of broadcast tools is still Facebook, Twitter, Direct, and Newsletters. Newsletters are really the new feed.
> Newsletters are really the new feed. I've noticed this as well, and it boggles my mind. If ever there was a use case for RSS, this would be it.
Inoreader just rolled out a new feature that allows you to subscribe to newsletters directly in their reader and have them available with the rest of your feeds.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#83Nope, I'm still using it.
I currently using it through my own web app that's aggregating RSS, Reddit, HN, Twitter and Youtube.
Planning for a long time to launch it as a product but never got around it.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#84Newsblur is my Internet's start page. We use MS Teams at work and I have noticed that coworkers have setup RSS subscription channels to follow businesses, etc.
I use hidden RSS feeds on many websites (/feed on Wordpress for example), it is a shame they are not visible.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#85According to my httpd logs, between 50 and 100 people[1] are fetching my (not particularly popular) blog via RSS daily. That's enough people for it to be (personally) worth ensuring that RSS continues to function.
Whether that meets the standard of being "alive" is probably a community judgement.
[1]: The exact number is hard to get, since a lot of feed hits are for RSS services and not all of them announce their subscriber count in their user agent.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#86I got this post on HN via RSS via Reeder app.
Conclusion: not dead.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#87RSS is not dead, but it's not cool to ship RSS clients in new projects. It's consumed far and wide, both directly and indirectly from readers, leechers, and listeners; it's used inside products and projects ranging from enterprise to mom-and-pop shops.
Do I need a list? Nah. If I did, it'd be more telling about me than RSS anyways.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#88RSS feeds aren't dead. On the contrary, their usage for content aggregation, media monitoring and podcasts has increased in the past few years, specially by power users (inforvores) and in the business world. Speaking from my own experience running Feedity - https://feedity.com , a growing service that helps with custom feeds for unstructured sources like webpages.
Does feedity allow me to generate an RSS feed for sites that do not provide it?
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
RSS does play a growing role in a few places: podcasts [1] and virtual assistant apps (e.g. Alexa [2], Google Home[3], etc.) Although in both cases consumers do not tend to have direct access to it. 1. https://itunespartner.apple.com/podcasts/articles/creating-y... 2. https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/flashbriefing/... 3. https://developers.google.com/news/assistant/newsbriefings/t...
I remember a time before RSS in the late 1990s. Now, for the past 6 years, I use RSS as my primary method of downloading podcast episodes and webcomic issues. I'm currently subscribed to about 60. Dead? No. Declining? I can't say that for myself let alone writ large.
If some site chirps 'listen to our podcast', I'll have a look for acceptable (e.g. no password) feed URLs. If they don't make one obvious, they've lost their chance. Generally, IME those worth downloading offer RSS.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#90still use it for podcasts, butgetting increasingly more troublesome to track down for new podcasts