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As someone who's been working with RSS aggregation since its inception I can say that even if there's a steep decline from a trend perspective, the support from
by marban 9y ago
As someone who's been working with RSS aggregation since its inception I can say that even if there's a steep decline from a trend perspective, the support from almost any major site is still alive and kicking. For those who remember popurls 1), I've recently launched a new site at http://www.hvper.com http://www.hvper.com and 90% from it is based on pure RSS. So long for its death.
1) https://medium.com/hvper/popurls-goes-hvper-2867b1b6b2bd https://medium.com/hvper/popurls-goes-hvper-2867b1b6b2bd
- strict9 9y agothis makes my day. I still use popurls, though it's covered in cobwebs and seems like abandonware. glad to see you have a new project up and running.
- webwanderings 9y agoUsed popurls for long period of time in history. It is an illusion (the grid reading that is). Don't think I will go back. The river of news per folder hierarchy (Google Reader) is better in a long run. It takes some effort upfront in organizing information and priorities, but it yields better reading results later.
- marban 9y agoThis has never been a replacement for a serious feed reader but something that should actually keep the latter clean from the short-term stuff that all the news outlets put out there. With a site like this, it's not about being informed, but about feeling connected.
- shortformblog 9y agoWhen my pieces show up on Digg, I see a lot of refers from Hvper. Good to know the philosophy behind it. Cheers.
- jklinger410 9y agoThank you for chiming in here. Reading so many of these comments of people basically talking out of their asses? Hey guys, just because you don't think about or use RSS anymore doesn't mean the entire platform is dead and no one uses it, haha. Jesus the hubris in this thread is insane. I have been using RSS via Feedly uninterrupted for 4 years and counting. No problems, haven't paid a dime, works great. Yes, not as popular. Apparently losing mindshare these days is akin to actually not existing.
- marban 9y agoYeah, Google Trends has been advocated by so many Create-a-niche-site Marketing Experts that it's become the undisputed barometer for putting a number or value behind just about any term, including Bitcoin price forecasting. The only times I'd use it is to decide whether I should still wear my 80s fanny pack today. Now let me check my Alexa ranking.
- jklinger410 9y agoAlexa ranking! xD Oh man, we can be friends.
- yxhuvud 9y agoIt may or may not be dead in the end user space, but it is everywhere in the content and media industries.