RSS Death Debate

The cluster discusses whether RSS feeds are dead or dying, citing reasons like browser removal of support, Google Reader's shutdown, and social media dominance, while others defend its ongoing relevance and utility for content consumption.

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megaman22 Jun 16, 2018 View on HN

Man, why can't we just use RSS as it was intended?

jpswade Mar 6, 2020 View on HN

What purpose do RSS feeds have in a world of news feeds?

angryasian Apr 12, 2013 View on HN

What are you talking about rss is not killed off, ask the feedly team rss is still alive and well. Point me to any site and I will show you their rss feed. The reality is most sites aggregate their content using twitter, rss, facebook.. so they are encouraging you to aggregate it in the same way. Really we have an issue with that.

matkins Sep 17, 2018 View on HN

Amount of websites that offer RSS != Amount of users who still use RSS

ricardobeat Dec 14, 2012 View on HN

Many sites around the web don't publish RSS anymore, and browsers have removed the default RSS readers.

oliwarner Jun 11, 2022 View on HN

I've personally no problem in consuming RSS.It's more about the visitors to my websites. It used to be enough to embed a feed and people would subscribe. These days there's so little in-browser glue that you either have to know what to do with it, or... or what?The point here is to try to work out how people stay up to date with individual websites.I wrote this after posting here, might explain better than this little comment. <a href="https://thepcspy.com/

htor Jun 13, 2018 View on HN

rss is alive and well! why did you stop using it?

zengr Jun 13, 2011 View on HN

Does it really matter? No RSS consumers here?

htwillie Aug 4, 2018 View on HN

Perhaps RSS wasn't built for the average user.

ommunist Mar 23, 2013 View on HN

Rumours of the RSS demise are exaggerated. Just put a notice for your RSS users to encourage them to use Feedly or something like that.