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

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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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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

I subscribe to quite a few RSS feeds with feedly

Yes. RSS with the Feeder Chrome extension.

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

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

Yes, feedly

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