- The message subject has the video title - You can subscribe to playlists - Notifications aren't randomly lost (a new feature YouTube launched a few weeks ago)
It's amazing, so they'll probably deprecate the RSS feeds next week.
[As to the software, I'm trying out rss2email with patches to include media thumbnails]
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Sure, they're both automatically generated / automatically read, but ATOM seems like an improvement syntactically ...
I'm rather tired of people calling it dead when there is no supporting body that is required to keep the protocol alive.
I'm so old, I actually used to use the RSS feed Facebook provided for their notifications (wall posts) with Google Reader. That's right - there was a point in time when you could consume your Facebook feed via RSS (all in one place, alongside your other feeds), actually provided by Facebook.
The chronology is the other way around. People knew what a feed was and how it was useful, and Facebook worked out how to monopolize it and put their ads into it.
Also Twitter, Instagram, and Google+:
https://twitter-atom.appspot.com/ https://instagram-atom.appspot.com/ https://plusstreamfeed.appspot.com/
I am not on Facebook anymore.
I have my own ways to get what I want.
Google (and other search engines) have a standard for sitemaps: /sitemap.xml in the root of the site. It'd be nice if there was a similar standard for rss, i.e. /feed.xml - which means browsers and other clients can attempt to auto-discover it.
I know there's the 'link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"' meta-tag but again most users don't know to look for it now that browsers don't have the little icon on the toolbar, and a lot of self-coders/site-generators don't bother to implement it.
At the end of the day, RSS has fallen out of favour due to it's poor support for user-tracking and advert injection - the big sites don't use it for exactly that reason, and the rest of the internet sheep are following suit. It's another nail in the Internet open-standards coffin :(
I've found nothing better for having a single place where you choose the content and absorb the information at your own pace.
I'm in the minority preferring a desktop application though - so it an sit in the background and I can switch to it for short 5-minute burst every couple of hours rather than visiting a web site.
Sadly there seem to be no desktop apps that are maintained anymore. I'm currently using RSSOwl, but it's no longer being maintained and has started crashing regularly.
iTunes supports RSS if you're on Mac or Windows though it's not obvious (File->Subscribe to podcast... add RSS link)
QuiteRSS [http://quiterss.org/]
KDE Kontact [https://userbase.kde.org/Kontact]
Liferea [http://lzone.de/liferea/]
RSS Guard [https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard]
Seamonkey [http://www.seamonkey-project.org/]
Thunderbird [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/]
Firefox ("live bookmarks") [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/]
In the console, I like newsbeuter [http://www.newsbeuter.org/]
(I do need to set some filters on my Gmail so they don't appear in the INBOX, though)
https://jangernert.github.io/FeedReader/
I'm sure there must be others out there for Linux? There are several available for OS X (er, macOS); I use a commercial one called Reeder, but there's also NetNewsWire and the open source ViennaRSS (which appears to still be in active development).