I wrote an thing a couple years back. https://davepeck.org/2018/08/16/revisiting-rss/ -- for me, anyway, RSS is still a key part of my daily work and leisure.
Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
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Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#72I don't think RSS will ever die because it takes little to no effort for a content producer to provide it. It's as simple and straight forward as it gets.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#73I used Live Bookmarks (powered by RSS) to get to this post. I hope not!
I have a pet pipe dream that once symmetric upload/download is a thing vs. ADSL (whether FTTH or 5G effects this, I dare not speculate) in 10-20 years, mesh networks and fediverse style stuff will have their greatest opportunity in years to leverage open protocols like RSS, Delta.Chat's chatting over autocrypt-encrypted emails, chat-over-Wifi-SSID and more to split open the walled gardens that people are in mainly because of their network effects and lack of a convenient alternative.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#74It's only dead insofar as most blogs don't have a decent RSS feed to begin with. I've scoured the web looking for high quality RSS feeds that are updated regularly, and have even shared an OPML file with close friends who happen to really like RSS too. The amount of effort was astonishing gathering those RSS feeds, but it was worth it.
WordPress supports RSS and 35% of websites are WordPress. Just add /feed/ to the domain name to access it.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
My only interface to Twitter is through Newsblur and https://twitrss.me
For me https://nitter.net/ directly, but I'll add an rss interface too. Thx for the link.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#76By asking the question using the word "dead"[0] which has such offensive connotations, it will spur some to say "it's not dead" -- which isn't really going to be productive for what I think you're really asking. First, in one sense (but doesn't really answer your question) ... the old protocols like RSS (feeds), NNTP (news), IRC (chat), etc are never going to be "dead" because somebody somewhere will always be provid…
This is a really great answer and analysis. By my rough estimate 90% of internet arguments boil down to people using different definitions of the same word and talking past each other.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#77Every site that removes RSS is dead to me.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#78Nope! I use newsblur and it is absolutely fantastic on web/mobile/whatever.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have yet to find a website that I feel should have an RSS feed that doesn’t have one.
The Globe & Mail shut down their RSS feed a while ago. They're dead to me now.
Whoa they did? I haven’t been using RSS as much lately but I’ve been reading less news.
I wonder if it’s because they hardened their paywall.
That’s disappointing. For a while they were the most forward Canadian paper, digitally.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#80NZB and Torrent indexers often publish RSS and works great. Definitely not dead.