Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else?

Posted by pvsukale3 on Monday May 01, 2017 @12:08PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am working on this side project where people can blog and it's very simple. I was just wondering if I should implement RSS for people to follow their favourite blogger. My audience is mostly Hacker news type of people (<3 ) . So do you still use RSS to follow your favourite blogs?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by bartvk on Monday May 01, 2017 @04:23PM (#14241181)

Oh yeah.

And it's not just people with RSS readers. New initiatives like http://micro.blog read your RSS feed to allow people to follow you, favorite particular blog entries, share them etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by detaro on Monday May 01, 2017 @12:49PM (#14239162)

Yes, and if a blog doesn't have a feed I generally don't keep track of it – only very few resources are important enough to follow by going there individually.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by monknomo on Monday May 01, 2017 @01:19PM (#14239449)

So much this. I don't have time to remember your website and see what you're up to - just ping my feed reader when you've got something to say

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by zhte415 on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:28AM (#14255442)

Yes, Not only does it allow people that use RSS readers, but people who use readers that build on RSS.

Also allow email syndication. A non-insignificant number of people use email syndication as a fallback from RSS, or simply a solution in itself. Pre-ramen plans should be cost-free.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by chmaynard on Monday May 01, 2017 @12:24PM (#14238911)

I subscribe to around sixty RSS feeds. I check them daily using NetNewsWire 3.3. It's my belief that any site publishing original static content, such as a blog or a news publication, should make their new content available via one or more RSS/Atom feeds. If you're concerned that readers won't visit your website and see your ads, then provide the first paragraph in the feed and give readers a link to the entire post.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by crispytx on Monday May 01, 2017 @12:47PM (#14239153)

Too bad there isn't a great RSS software company. It seems like someone should have created a ubiquitous RSS app. Maybe I should go do that... brb

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by detaro on Monday May 01, 2017 @01:23PM (#14239494)

Are you missing something from existing offerings, or do you mean more a visibility thing – many people don't know about feeds and how to use them?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by hsribei on Monday May 01, 2017 @12:24PM (#14238912)

I use RSS with Blogtrottr to get updates by email. But I prefer it when the blog has its own newsletter. Saves me the trip to Blogtrottr and receiving their ads on each email.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by angryasian on Monday May 01, 2017 @02:15PM (#14239998)

I'm on the opposite end, I don't want several different newsletters that are all formatted with too much space wasted and designed to look appealing. Just give me a list of all the content and titles and I'll decide what I want to read. To each their own I guess.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by taude on Monday May 01, 2017 @03:46PM (#14240833)

Yes, I still use RSS to remember the sites I want to check regularly. I use feedly.com.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by monknomo on Monday May 01, 2017 @01:18PM (#14239442)

I subscribe to quite a few RSS feeds with feedly

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by Chris911 on Monday May 01, 2017 @12:12PM (#14238782)

Yes. RSS with the Feeder Chrome extension.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by mhtsbt on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:58PM (#14250005)

absolutly, I'm building my own rss reader app inspired by google reader, jachtzee.com

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by ksherlock on Monday May 01, 2017 @11:52PM (#14243839)

yes, via the gwene rss to nntp/usenet gateway.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS if not what else? by mdotk on Monday May 01, 2017 @03:56PM (#14240930)

Yes, feedly

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