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I think my best way of answering the question is that because some magazine authors don't have per-contributor RSS, I don't follow them and forget them. Twitter is a very interesting development, but the only site whose RSS it's replaced is Daring Fireball. However, finding a good RSS client is the biggest pain in the ass, and I don't know what I would have done, if I didn't discover Fever, when Bloglines died and to…
I think my best way of answering the question is that because some magazine authors don't have per-contributor RSS, I don't follow them and forget them. Twitter is a very interesting development, but the only site whose RSS it's replaced is Daring Fireball. However, finding a good RSS client is the biggest pain in the ass, and I don't know what I would have done, if I didn't discover Fever, when Bloglines died and to…
What's wrong with google reader?
Fever still prunes updates, albeit with an explicit and definable value. It allows up to eight weeks, which is usually enough for me to catch the important updates and makes sense from a personal server perspective, seeing that I don't have an infinite amount of storage available for the burgeoning database of feed updates.
After Bloglines died, the concept of cloud-based RSS readers made even less sense to me, seeing that it took all my saved updates with it. I feel the same way about e-mail, but I don't really see a dead-easy alternative available at the moment, especially with Gmail's two-factor authentication.
Google Reader also used to, basically, not work at all on Opera, which is normal for any Google service, so it never really grew on me. Its design annoys me to no end as well.
I use it everyday. In fact, that's how I saw this HN post. IMO, when it comes to RSS, people are always asking the wrong question. RSS is a technology, not a product. It makes as much sense as asking whether someone is using GSM or TCP. I think a large part of that problem is that the technology appeared before a user-friendly way to consume it. Imagine email addresses being introduced before email clients existed. T…
What are the alternatives to RSS? Do people really use Twitter instead? What else is there?