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How did RSS go downhill? Other commenters in here have mentioned their readers of choice; I can add mine: NewsBlur. Turns out RSS is still in pretty common us
by JohnL4 6y ago
How did RSS go downhill?
Other commenters in here have mentioned their readers of choice; I can add mine: NewsBlur.
Turns out RSS is still in pretty common use, as far as I can tell, unless you can point to a handful of sites that aren't using either RSS or Atom.
Invariably, when the topic of RSS comes up, someone laments its "passing", which leads me to ask (again): where is this impression coming from? Is it the mere absence of Google Reader?
Is there a social aspect I never knew about?
I see you mentioned other tools being lacking, but I know NewsBlur, at least, provides all those capabilities. (Not sure about "curating", though; maybe you could define that a bit more? There is the "blurblog", which has its very own RSS feed, which lets you surface articles you like, and there's the "save" function.)
- stef25 6y agoIt was awesome having google.com/ig as a homepage. There hasn't been anything to replace it that I know of. I still subscribe to feeds in a different tool but it's not the same.
- JohnL4 6y agoWhere did /ig take you? Also, "not the same"... can you be more specific? (And which tool?)
- helb 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle
- stef25 6y agoIt was a page you could fill with "widgets", basically RSS feeds that made up a dashboard where you could see the headlines of whatever websites you liked to frequent. You could drag & drop the widgets around to arrange the page like you wanted and then expand each title to see the short text of each article. Inoreader is the only RSS reader I'm comfortable with, Thunderbird's also ok. They aren't "widget" pages though.