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Chrome in Android has a built in RSS reader in chrome now labeled the 'following' tab in your new tab page. I've been using this with great success lately. The

Chrome in Android has a built in RSS reader in chrome now labeled the 'following' tab in your new tab page. I've been using this with great success lately. The key for me was to pick only a few really high quality sources instead of 99999 sources. https://9to5google.com/2021/10/08/chrome-rss-web-feed/ https://9to5google.com/2021/10/08/chrome-rss-web-feed/ There's a flag for desktop too. You can enable 'Feed' in the sidebar, but it doesn't work for me on any platform at the moment.

Jackevansevo 4y ago
How long will this feature last until it inevitably gets canned?
- bombolo 4y ago
  It needs some adoption first… no point in canning something nobody uses. It'd be too simple.
  - pwillia7 4y ago
    yeah they'll have to wait until they ship physical RSS readers out
- mananaysiempre 4y ago
  The longevity of Chrome features generally seems to be much better than that of Google products in general. I can only think of a few major removals: FTP, NSAPI and the ongoing MV2 debacle, Chrome apps, Gears; I don’t remember if any variant of NaCl ever shipped as non-beta, and I’m sure Dart-in-<script> never did.
ghaff 4y ago
I don't know. For a "few" high quality sources you can just check the sources directly. For me, the big win for RSS in the blogosphere world was you could follow a lot of sources that published pretty sporadically but sometimes had interesting things when they did publish.
- pwillia7 4y ago
  Yeah, I still have quiterss setup like that, but this is my alternative to doom scrolling Reddit/pop news sites. I use this Chrome extension and the feed mode to be more selective about my news. https://archive.is/ https://archive.is/
kevincox 4y ago
> pick only a few really high quality sources That's an interesting point of view. I tend to find that the high quality sources I tend to follow are very low volume. So I've subscribed to hundreds of personal blogs, YouTube channels and similar to produce a steady (but not high volume) flow of good content. Most of the higher-volume sources that I have considered following are either low quality or most of the content isn't within my interests. Basically I tend to prefer 100 good sources that post a few times a year than 2 sources that post daily. Of course this isn't a hard rule, it is just the collaboration that I have seen. There are obviously some teams that put out high-quality content on a regular schedule.

Jackevansevo 4y ago

How long will this feature last until it inevitably gets canned?

bombolo 4y ago
It needs some adoption first… no point in canning something nobody uses. It'd be too simple.
- pwillia7 4y ago
  yeah they'll have to wait until they ship physical RSS readers out
mananaysiempre 4y ago
The longevity of Chrome features generally seems to be much better than that of Google products in general. I can only think of a few major removals: FTP, NSAPI and the ongoing MV2 debacle, Chrome apps, Gears; I don’t remember if any variant of NaCl ever shipped as non-beta, and I’m sure Dart-in-<script> never did.

ghaff 4y ago

I don't know. For a "few" high quality sources you can just check the sources directly. For me, the big win for RSS in the blogosphere world was you could follow a lot of sources that published pretty sporadically but sometimes had interesting things when they did publish.

pwillia7 4y ago
Yeah, I still have quiterss setup like that, but this is my alternative to doom scrolling Reddit/pop news sites. I use this Chrome extension and the feed mode to be more selective about my news. https://archive.is/ https://archive.is/

kevincox 4y ago

> pick only a few really high quality sources That's an interesting point of view. I tend to find that the high quality sources I tend to follow are very low volume. So I've subscribed to hundreds of personal blogs, YouTube channels and similar to produce a steady (but not high volume) flow of good content. Most of the higher-volume sources that I have considered following are either low quality or most of the content isn't within my interests. Basically I tend to prefer 100 good sources that post a few times a year than 2 sources that post daily. Of course this isn't a hard rule, it is just the collaboration that I have seen. There are obviously some teams that put out high-quality content on a regular schedule.