I don't think RSS ever truly went away. Sure, Google ditched Reader, but (for me, at least) Feedly and other services took its place. The millions of sites runn

I don't think RSS ever truly went away. Sure, Google ditched Reader, but (for me, at least) Feedly and other services took its place. The millions of sites running on WordPress have RSS enabled by default. Podcasts are distributed via RSS. Social media sites and smart news aggregators (e.g. Apple News) have failed to replace RSS for me.