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Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else?
I am working on this side project where people can blog and it's very simple. I was just wondering if I should implement RSS for people to follow their favourite blogger. My audience is mostly Hacker news type of people (<3 ) . So do you still use RSS to follow your favourite blogs?
- Chris911 9y agoYes. RSS with the Feeder Chrome extension.
- chmaynard 9y agoI subscribe to around sixty RSS feeds. I check them daily using NetNewsWire 3.3. It's my belief that any site publishing original static content, such as a blog or a news publication, should make their new content available via one or more RSS/Atom feeds. If you're concerned that readers won't visit your website and see your ads, then provide the first paragraph in the feed and give readers a link to the entire post.
- hsribei 9y agoI use RSS with Blogtrottr to get updates by email. But I prefer it when the blog has its own newsletter. Saves me the trip to Blogtrottr and receiving their ads on each email.
- angryasian 9y agoI'm on the opposite end, I don't want several different newsletters that are all formatted with too much space wasted and designed to look appealing. Just give me a list of all the content and titles and I'll decide what I want to read. To each their own I guess.
- crispytx 9y agoToo bad there isn't a great RSS software company. It seems like someone should have created a ubiquitous RSS app. Maybe I should go do that... brb
- detaro 9y agoAre you missing something from existing offerings, or do you mean more a visibility thing – many people don't know about feeds and how to use them?
- detaro 9y agoYes, and if a blog doesn't have a feed I generally don't keep track of it – only very few resources are important enough to follow by going there individually.
- monknomo 9y agoSo much this. I don't have time to remember your website and see what you're up to - just ping my feed reader when you've got something to say
- monknomo 9y agoI subscribe to quite a few RSS feeds with feedly
- taude 9y agoYes, I still use RSS to remember the sites I want to check regularly. I use feedly.com.
- mdotk 9y agoYes, feedly
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- bartvk 9y agoOh yeah. And it's not just people with RSS readers. New initiatives like http://micro.blog http://micro.blog read your RSS feed to allow people to follow you, favorite particular blog entries, share them etc.
- ksherlock 9y agoyes, via the gwene rss to nntp/usenet gateway.
- mhtsbt 9y agoabsolutly, I'm building my own rss reader app inspired by google reader, jachtzee.com
- zhte415 9y agoYes, Not only does it allow people that use RSS readers, but people who use readers that build on RSS. Also allow email syndication. A non-insignificant number of people use email syndication as a fallback from RSS, or simply a solution in itself. Pre-ramen plans should be cost-free.