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For me RSS died with the death of Google Reader
by mukundesh 5y ago
For me RSS died with the death of Google Reader
- raspyberr 5y agoBut RSS is everywhere. I use it for so many blogs and sites, as do many others. And for sites that don't have RSS there are services to turn them into RSS feeds. You can turn newsletters into RSS feeds. You can have RSS in your email client. RSS is thriving.
- ammar_x 5y agoIs there a reliable way to create RSS feeds for sites that don't have them? That would be really great...
- bluprince13 5y agoTry web feeds? E.g. https://www.inoreader.com/blog/2020/04/convert-almost-any-webpage-into-rss-feed-with-inoreaders-web-feeds.html https://www.inoreader.com/blog/2020/04/convert-almost-any-we...
- senectus1 5y agohell no, RSS just shifted sideways to a feedly interface. still going strong though.
- detaro 5y agoPeople keep saying that and I never quite get it. What was so unique about Google Reader? When it should down I imported my subscriptions into another reader and used that ever since, without problems.
- slightwinder 5y agoIt wasn't in anyway special or unique. Though, it was a good app and it took competitors several months to years to reach a similar level. But Google Reader dominated the market back then, and them closing it was a kind of signal. It was around that time that other rss-related services went into decline, while competing solutions like social networks and reddit were on their hype-train to popularity. So it's kinda natural that people saw the shutdown of Google Reader as a death-flag for Newsfeeds as a whole. And they are not so wrong on this. The decline continued since then and so far there is nothing in sight to reverse it and start a new hype.
- bluprince13 5y agoI didn’t even know about RSS at the time. Just used facebook for everything.
- MR4D 5y agoYou should try Feedly. It’s like that but without the baggage of being owned by a company that suffers from ADHD.