That's interesting, because I'd say I value RSS for exactly the reasons you disclaimed. A dozen or two authors online are sufficiently good writers & so well i

That's interesting, because I'd say I value RSS for exactly the reasons you disclaimed. A dozen or two authors online are sufficiently good writers & so well in tune with my mind (or an area of my interest) that I am interested in almost anything they have to say. I use RSS in order to not miss their material. Without RSS, I would have to visit a ton of bookmarks every few days in order to scan for new posts. Like you indicated, I don't see any value to a site like HN or Reddit having an RSS feed. The main page is the RSS feed. For me, RSS feeds excel at keeping me up to date with authors that only post every few days, or every few weeks. A couple dozen carefully chosen feeds gives me tremendous pleasure in the form of a few great posts a day. I've pretty much used RSS like this for five years, occasionally rotating in and out new blogs and authors.