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Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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After Google Reader, I tried a bunch of different ones. Feedly was the best I could find but there were a number of things that just annoyed me. I had an issue with one of my feeds and got very little help from their support. That was the last straw and I decided to revisit alternatives. I somehow stumbled upon BazQux, and I noticed the same issue with the one feed on that platform as well. The developer was incredib…

This caught my attention. For those who don't feel like searching for it: https://bazqux.com/ I like that it looks almost identical to (how I remember) Google Reader.

One of the best parts is the ability to add any FB, Instagram, Twitter users as a feed. BazQux automatically converts the user's feed into RSS and serves it up.

No more having to go to FB for updates from various organizations that don't have any other mechanism for publishing announcements! :)

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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> When did RSS go out of style anyway? It went away when Google killed Reader. Reader had more or less killed off the independent RSS reader market. When it got shuttered, alternatives weren't well developed and people shifted more or less entirely onto Twitter. The Twitter shift had been happening already but the shutdown kind of forced the issue.

Google Reader wasn't just an RSS client, it was social. you could subscribe to your friends feeds, see what they were interested in etc. Google Reader was a social network around RSS (I also think there was in platform commenting too?)

It didn’t had a comment system, but you could share an article with a comment attached to it.
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