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Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?
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Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?
#12RSS is either decreasing or increasing. I feel like it’s still working well enough (I use it) but if I’d have to guess I would say it’s decreasing (and thus will die).
What it needs is a bunch of volunteers to implement it for all languages (provide libraries) and frameworks (provide rss feeds by default for blogs and cms).
For the most part it works quite well, but I think some static blog generators, or centralized blog platforms, are not playing nice with RSS (and I’m guessing this is on purpose).
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?
#13What about the RSS protocol is lacking and in need of further development? It seems to get the job done. I do agree about discovery in general, it's uncomfortable counting on Google, Microsoft, and Meta / TikTok for content discovery. Thankfully there are some smart folks working on fresh takes on the search engine. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
RSS doesn't work all that well across multiple devices, such as a desktop and a mobile phone. You can subscribe to them on both, sure, but they won't be synced with each other. Apps such as Google Reader and such resolve that problem, but the death of Google Reader really shook a lot of people's trust in RSS, I think. Plus now RSS has to compete with social media feeds, which are where a lot of people are looking for…
I think you are not talking about rss
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?
#14RSS is still the main mode of podcast distribution. It's somewhat hidden behind podcast apps, but that's what distributors are still using to create feeds.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?
#15Seems like mailing lists are getting popular. I wish I could have those in my RSS reader.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?
#16Seems like mailing lists are getting popular. I wish I could have those in my RSS reader.
You can with NewsBlur: https://blog.newsblur.com/2016/07/01/newsletters-in-your-new...
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?
#17RSS as it was existed 10+ years ago there were was the little orange RSS icon on most websites and blogs is 100% dead and won't ever come back.
Personally I think this is a shame but the majority BigCorps want to know who is consuming their news/information and dislike their information being disseminated anonymously via RSS feeds.
They'd prefer be able to track you online (because you visited their website to read said information), or have your email address to spam from time to time etc.
There's no commercial imperative to keep RSS, which is why it is dead.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?
#18RSS is either decreasing or increasing. I feel like it’s still working well enough (I use it) but if I’d have to guess I would say it’s decreasing (and thus will die). What it needs is a bunch of volunteers to implement it for all languages (provide libraries) and frameworks (provide rss feeds by default for blogs and cms). For the most part it works quite well, but I think some static blog generators, or centralized…
Thanks! This is (also) what I meant by development -- ensuring there's an ecosystem of connectors, libraries etc. around it to facilitate adoption/usage.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?
#19RSS is holding strong. I run a network of news aggregators (https://TechURLs.com, https://DevURLs.com, and many others) and only two or three news sources out of a hundred have removed their RSS feeds over the last two years.