For me RSS worked very well at a time when mobile data connection/wifi was not ubiquitous yet. For a year or two, every morning when I came to school I went directly to that one place where there was the one Wi-Fi router. I downloaded all the new articles in my NetNewsWire feed and then read them over the day.

The tech is nice, but I have no desire to use it anymore. I no longer follow specific blogs. Now I just open hacker news or reddit any time I want to read something.