Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS?

Posted by msmash on Monday May 1, 2017 @06:00AM from the changing-habits dept.

Real Site Syndication, or RSS has been around for over a decade but it never really managed to lure regular web users (though maybe it wasn't built to serve everyone). So much so that even Google cited declining usage of Google Reader, at one time the most popular RSS reader service, as one of the two reasons for shutting down the service. With an increasingly number of people looking at Facebook and Twitter for news, we thought it would be a good time to ask the following question: Do you use any RSS reader app? If yes, do you think it is still a good way to keep track of the "new stuff" that your favorite sites publish?

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Of Course by chrisautrey · 2017-05-01 06:04 · Score: 3, Funny

How else would I get my Slashdot article headers?
Re:I mean I got this article through RSS by Gr8Apes · 2017-05-01 07:05 · Score: 4, Funny

I use outlook as my RSS reader
You admit that? on /.? Geek card please.

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Re:I mean I got this article through RSS by thegarbz · 2017-05-01 07:47 · Score: 5, Funny

bullshit
Yes that is exactly what replaced getting broad and different views on a variety of topics.
Re:I mean I got this article through RSS by E-Rock · 2017-05-01 10:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Are you sure he doesn't get bonus points for being able to make that work?