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Am I the only one who still largely keeps up with stuff via explicitly going to a website? The thing I never liked about RSS is that it fed on my inbox zero com
by gxqoz 6y ago
Am I the only one who still largely keeps up with stuff via explicitly going to a website? The thing I never liked about RSS is that it fed on my inbox zero compulsion. I don't feel that I'm missing out on content when I just don't see it because it's moved to an older section of a website I regularly visit.
I did add a read it later app into the mix several years ago. This is helpful for consuming longer content, but I have to explicitly put articles there.
- kickscondor 6y agoRSS also strips out all of the styles. I personally like to see posts as they were intended.
- netghost 6y agoThere's a happy medium in my mind where you just use RSS to notify you of new content, and then click through to see the real post. That's the approach I take with the RSS reader I've built anyways.
- rchaud 6y agoMe, I will bookmark sites and visit them when I feel like it. RSS never worked properly for me when it was "big" in the 2000s. Half the time I'd click the RSS icon on a site and it would display XML code and an error message I didn't understand. At the end of the day, it's also still a 'feed'. The websites I visit write about a variety of topics, and I'm only interested in a couple. For that use case, it's simpler to just visit the site on a regular basis. I do save articles to Pocket though, as I can't stand the news website trend of breaking up the article flow with embedded tweets, Related Articles links, email signup CTAs and what not.