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Re:RSS is undead by sh87 on Monday April 09, 2018 @10:48PM (#16798651)
Adding an RSS feed is easy. Individual writers and hosts have no good reason for not including them. For groups / publishing houses that are not techinically bent generally use publishing platforms that generally support them. For the minority thats excluded from the above, hey, just a shout out and someone will be ready to help (me included). But thats not the real problem, the lack of ads on rss feeds (which is its biggest appeal to me) warrants the lack of attention rss feeds get.
Re:RSS is undead by Vinnl on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:47AM (#16799955)
Easy is something else than no effort at all. Wordpress by default comes with RSS feeds enabled, but e.g. Jekyll doesn't - and I've seen many static sites even by tech-savvy people or for software libraries that hadn't enabled them. That means I have to contact site owners to enable their RSS feeds before I'm able to subscribe to them. And that's just when they're using a package like Jekyll that already has RSS support baked in.
Re:RSS is undead by sametmax on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @02:55AM (#16799549)
As the OP, I love RSS.

But let's not pretend it's always easy.

You gotta take in consideration the filters, the configuration, the cache, if you support rss and atom, the routing, and how you integrate it in your design.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Re:RSS is undead by sh87 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:01PM (#16806407)
RSS IS easy. Filtering, caching, routing, fancy features are not. I’m okay with a poor RSS feed over none.