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They're not just "important", a blog without RSS/Atom feed is like a car without wheels.
by BoingBoomTschak 3mo ago
They're not just "important", a blog without RSS/Atom feed is like a car without wheels.
- AndrewKemendo 3mo agoI’ve never had an rss on any blog/site I’ve ever hosted and never felt like I’m missing anything What is the advantage to me of maintaining an rss? Is there some giant rss feed following community I’m missing?
- andros 3mo agoCurrently, the RSS feed is what's driving the most traffic to my blog.
- sjs382 3mo agoIs there some giant rss feed following community I’m missing? Yes
- BoingBoomTschak 3mo agoDo you think I'll just check manually every day to see if you wrote a new post? That for each and every blog I follow? That's like comparing old school Windows software updating where you "just have to go on the website and read the news" vs `apt update && apt upgrade`.
- AndrewKemendo 3mo agoMy assumption was that nobody checks rss feeds since the iPhone came out anymore, but apparently I’m wrong
- mbrndtgn 3mo agoWhy since the iPhone? RSS feeds on my phone were my preferred way of reading blogs before responsive web design was a thing.
- 6510 3mo agoYou don't have to maintain it, you make it once then it just works. As long as your website can print post titles and urls to a document the rss feed should work.
- Kalabasa 3mo agoChrome mobile used to have a native RSS Following feature since 2021. https://blog.chromium.org/2021/05/an-experiment-in-helping-users-and-web.html https://blog.chromium.org/2021/05/an-experiment-in-helping-u... It seems they killed it in 2025, maybe to make space for the AI button.