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Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS?

Posted by msmash on 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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  1. RTS? by superdave80 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Real Time Syndication, or RSS

    How does Real Time Syndication become RSS? Should be RTS?

  2. I mean I got this article through RSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've never understood why people have gone away from it. It's the most effective way to track a ton of websites in entirety. I think of my RSS feed as my morning newspaper. I follow literally hundreds of websites, journals, and blogs using it, and I can churn through it all in maybe twenty minutes at my keyboard each day on inoreader.

    1. Re:I mean I got this article through RSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's the same as a newspaper. Skim headlines for pertinent articles. Read the articles that are relevant or interesting.

      I doubt most people that follow the New York Times read every single article they publish every single day. But I feel a lot better seeing the headlines and the first paragraph and deciding whether it pertains to me or not. Either way, I'm aware that those events are happening and being discussed.

  3. Yes, I do. by alexru · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would not be reading this if there was not RSS. I don't have time to manually check dozens of sites for updates.

  4. Not since Google Reader folded. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    RIP Google Reader.

    Fuck you, Google.

  5. Re:iGoogle by Scarred+Intellect · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Same here. I loved iGoogle. Netvibes dashboard is my homepage; I found this article via RSS.

    I also use Postbox for my E-mail and have XKCD and Penny Arcade subscriptions via RSS.