Do You Even RSS, Bro?

Okay, hands up. Who uses RSS feeds to keep up to date with news and entertainment?

Who doesn't even know what it is?

Who just doesn't care?

the third category for me. I'm not sure I understand the benefit.

I know what it is; I don't care anymore.

I used to use Google Reader; it was simple and just gave me the stuff I wanted to subscribe to. Then they dropped it.

I have Feedly, but I haven't checked my feeds in... Probably more than a year. It was just kind of painful. When CL was kinda functional with it, I got some additional value. I've finally given up/in and get emails from a few things, check a few things regularly, and the rest just sort of when something reminds me.

It wouldn't be the first time my impression didn't agree with reality, but I kinda feel like RSS has had its moment and is dustbin-bound if not already there. Too bad, really. For me it was so done in by the inability to get a simple reader that just gave me the feed.

I also used it in the Google Reader days. Reactive site design has sort of made it a moot point though IMO.

I'm still using Feedly to keep up with some blogs.

no clue and don't care.

Like others, my use of RSS died with Google Reader.

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dean1484 said:

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It does?

I know what it is  in theory.  I've never actually used it and would have no idea where to start.

Is it like the upgraded Ford Focus RS? the Focus RS-S?

I use it, GRM is probably the only site I visit regularly that doesn't have it. I went to G2Reader after Google Reader died, although it's a bit buggy. There's also TheOldReader.

Thanks for the feedback, guys. Keep it coming. This just comes after a conversation we were having in the office today and we were wondering who in our community actually uses it. 

ProDarwin said:

I know what it is  in theory.  I've never actually used it and would have no idea where to start.

Get RSS reader (web application or local system application)

Get RSS feed URL of site you want updates from (posted on website and/or automatically discoverable by URL)

Add RSS feed URL to RSS reader

Enjoy automatic news updates

Optional: Repeat until you have all the news you want in one place

Sounds complicated.

I've never used it and only vaguely know what it is, but don't see any use for it. 

Don't use it.

I have news updates (kind of the same thing) on my iPad, but that seems to basically be a CNN news spamming system (EVERYTHING seems to be really important news to CNN!).

I doubt I would necessarily want immediate updates on car stuff.  I can't think of many things that would be that time critical. 

aircooled said:

Don't use it.

I have news updates (kind of the same thing) on my iPad, but that seems to basically be a CNN news spamming system (EVERYTHING seems to be really important news to CNN!).

I doubt I would necessarily want immediate updates on car stuff.  I can't think of many things that would be that time critical. 

CNN does the same crap on their RSS feeds.

RSS isn't about just immediately getting news, it's about having it in one place and that means there's one place where you can mark articles for later reading on every different site.

I thought maybe, Rally Super Sport, like a 69 Camaro RS/SS, shortened up for todays short attention span.

I thought RSS had gone the way of Unicorns and dragons. I didn't know it was even used anymore.

Adrian_Thompson said:

I thought RSS had gone the way of Unicorns and dragons. I didn't know it was even used anymore.

Yep, the vast majority of sites still have RSS feeds, even new websites.

Edit: BTW, here's a handy trick I found recently for getting an RSS feed of a YouTube channel:

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/rss-feed-youtube-channel/

I used feedly to keep track of a handful of blogs.

I loved Google Reader and used it to consolidate a lot of things. When it died I went to Feedly but kind of tapered off after a while. With the Craigslist RSS feeds being less reliable / pretty much unusable that killed it the rest of the way. Now I just don't read the things I had in my RSS feed and I think I'm better off for it.

Only for podcasts. My media consumption habits have changed substantially in the last two years.

Count me in with the "google killed it for me" camp.