I think it caught on well enough, platforms such as Wordpress still support it out of the box (I just checked my blog, it works). I liked Atom's clean design b

I think it caught on well enough, platforms such as Wordpress still support it out of the box (I just checked my blog, it works). I liked Atom's clean design but it felt it was mostly pushed by Google (I may be misremembering) and in the end the syndicated web faded into obscurity anyway.