I started using RSS in a big way when I got my first smartphone.* Navigating websites using your thumb is slow and cumbersome. Not to mention just clicking a

I started using RSS in a big way when I got my first smartphone.* Navigating websites using your thumb is slow and cumbersome. Not to mention just clicking a bunch of bookmarks on your phone takes ages longer than on a desktop. But with RSS, I have an eBook view of what's new on any websites I'm interested in. Nothing else in the way, no navigation bars, no waiting for pages to load, no waiting for a cell signal, etc. Scroll up down through a list of recent updates, click to read, scroll through if interesting, swipe left/right to switch to the next/prior entry, or go back to the index. Done. Reading the day's updates happens in record time. With knock-on benefits that it's easier to follow small sites with infrequent updates... They come to me, I don't have to keep trying to check for updates from them. * I had some nice PDAs back in the day, but WiFi only became a thing right about when PDAs went out of fashion, so I don't know if there were any good RSS readers back then. It wasn't until smartphones that it became a problem I was motivated to solve.