> Btw is rss a thing now? I was having an idea of creating an rss reader, but gave up because rss is almost dead I provide an RSS feed for my blog at https://s

> Btw is rss a thing now? I was having an idea of creating an rss reader, but gave up because rss is almost dead I provide an RSS feed for my blog at https://susam.in/ https://susam.in/ . From my access.log, I see there is a decent number of subscribers to my feed. Here is the data I could pull from it: Feedly 56 subscribers Inoreader 17 subscribers Feedbin 6 subscribers NewsBlur 4 subscribers The Old Reader 3 subscribers BazQux 2 subscribers WordPress 2 subscribers ------------------------------ Total 90 subscribers I get about 4000-6000 hits to my website on a normal day. It increases by 5 to 10 times if a post hits the HN front page but I will talk about ordinary day traffic only here. From the HTTP referer (sic) information in the logs I can see that about 30-50 of those hits have a feed reader in the referer field, that is, at least 0.5%-0.75% of the total hits are coming from users who clicked on a blog post link in their feed reader and landed on the website. It is a very small percentage but 30-50 hits per day from users consuming the feed and 90 subscribers to the feed are reasons good enough to keep the feed alive.