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I am surprised when people keep saying here that RSS is dead. I am using it more than ever, every site (including hn news) configured by topic in Inoreader. I e

by zenlot 7y ago

I am surprised when people keep saying here that RSS is dead. I am using it more than ever, every site (including hn news) configured by topic in Inoreader. I even have reddit feeds within it via inline reddit. This way I can see my read/unread counts and mark favorites. I can also quickly export my feeds. It works cross device and it's the only source I use for news, articles or anything else I read on web. If site doesn't have RSS that's shame and I probably never visit it again.

sys_64738 7y ago
Love Inoreader as it's the closet to Google Reader IMO.
bhelkey 7y ago
Just because you have kept using RSS doesn't mean that the community has grown or even that it has stayed constant in size. Interest in RSS (or at least the best proxy I could find, Google searches for "RSS") has been steadily declining since ~2006[1]. > If site doesn't have RSS that's shame and I probably never visit it again. Assuming RSS continues to decline, I imagine that more and more sites will stop supporting it. [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=rss https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=rss Disclaimer: Googler if it matters. All opinions are my own.
- zenlot 7y ago
  Google Trends is not an answer. It's more likely that people will soon be fed up with enormous unrelated content and infinite scrolling, and will revert back to what's actually useful: specialized and managable content. And if you're searching for trends only, you'll be able to find that it's already happening. Community discovered that social networks is not an answer, the content is mostly garbage in there and nobody wants to 'scroll to infinity' anymore. Look at Lisp trends at different time periods in the past 60 or so years. And then at Clojure or functional programming in general now. Re: 'googler' - no it doesn't matter. Just because you're 'googler', doesn't mean that you're right. Lets revise this in 10 years. My bet is: if not RSS, then better RSS ;)

by zenlot 7y ago

sys_64738 7y ago

Love Inoreader as it's the closet to Google Reader IMO.

bhelkey 7y ago

Just because you have kept using RSS doesn't mean that the community has grown or even that it has stayed constant in size. Interest in RSS (or at least the best proxy I could find, Google searches for "RSS") has been steadily declining since ~2006[1]. > If site doesn't have RSS that's shame and I probably never visit it again. Assuming RSS continues to decline, I imagine that more and more sites will stop supporting it. [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=rss https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=rss Disclaimer: Googler if it matters. All opinions are my own.

zenlot 7y ago
Google Trends is not an answer. It's more likely that people will soon be fed up with enormous unrelated content and infinite scrolling, and will revert back to what's actually useful: specialized and managable content. And if you're searching for trends only, you'll be able to find that it's already happening. Community discovered that social networks is not an answer, the content is mostly garbage in there and nobody wants to 'scroll to infinity' anymore. Look at Lisp trends at different time periods in the past 60 or so years. And then at Clojure or functional programming in general now. Re: 'googler' - no it doesn't matter. Just because you're 'googler', doesn't mean that you're right. Lets revise this in 10 years. My bet is: if not RSS, then better RSS ;)