> Social aggregators like HN and Reddit won. RSS lost. Social aggregators are great for discovery, they can let the community surface good items, but they suck

> Social aggregators like HN and Reddit won. RSS lost. Social aggregators are great for discovery, they can let the community surface good items, but they suck for subscription. Once I have found authors that I like I want a way to reliably see their content, not hoping that it happens to be popular on the site at around the time that I happen to visit. Unless you are refreshing your feed hourly you are going to miss a lot of content from your favourite authors, and even the most addicted users won't see it all. As an author I also appreciate loyalty of subscribers more than viral surges, but I understand that the money is probably better with the viral surges.