5/31/2023 0 Comments Blog rss feed readerInstead of following an organization or person on say Twitter, I much prefer making sure I get notified of their important stuff via a feed (or a newsletter!). □īeyond the tool used, subscribing to RSS feeds is in my opinion very empowering. Although, to be honest, it’d seem more natural to me to use some sort of R pipeline. I can imagine one would store addresses to RSS feeds in a JSON file, then have a template that fetch all of them and then transform them. It could also be a local Hugo website you’d build as Hugo has support for XML hence RSS since version 0.90 (see ). Note that Feedly will find RSS feed addresses directly based on an URL. Then you can syndicate all of them to some tool that will regularly look for new posts in the feed and present them to you, potentially with some bells and whistles like letting you mark them as “read” or “to read later”. Take a list of all your favorite websites whose updates you want to follow. Have a look at the RSS feed for this blog over at How to consume RSS Much handier in my opinion to use that to get updates among Twitter “noise”. An RSS ( really simple syndication) feed is metadata about all, or the most recent posts published by a website: publication date, content or summary, etc. I found an excuse to blog about XML again! Yes, RSS feeds are in practice XML, but for most people, that’s not why they are cool. You can find the Atom feed for this site at. With all that said, for those that do care about Atom/ RSS Feeds. It's just a question of how we are going to see RSS feeds going forward. I don't think we're going to loose RSS or Atom any time soon either. It doesn't need securing or designing as it doesn't offer any interaction and despite XML being less commonly used as an interchange format than somthing like JSON in recent years it's still very easy to read programatically. It's much simpler to implement than a full REST API and also has the benefit of being standardised. RSS has simply become one of many methods that applications and sites can draw content from one another. That's not exactly a bad thing, consumers need systems to be simple and "subscribing to a news site" makes a lot more sense to them than "subscribing to a news site's RSS feed". RSS has simply migrated from a key part of internet usage to a behind the scenes system that consumers don't need to understand. To be completely honest, I don't think RSS is dead. These widgets allowing us to search without ever having to manually create a tab. I do have wonder how frequently any of us see the new tab screen on a day to day basis though, as google search is natively embeded on the home screen of most mobile devices via the use of widgets. Subscription to an **RSS** feed on android Clicking this follow button will add the site's RSS feed to your new tab screen. Click the 3 dots in the corner of the browser to bring up options and you may see a follow button at the bottom of the list. Facebook Instant Articles is advertised as its own news product that draws news from various sources without any mention of RSS.Ĭhrome on Android is one of the few places I found that still has a native RSS experience, not that you'd ever hear anything about it. ![]() They will dynamically publish instant articles from your site's RSS feed with a little configuration but once again, the end user doesn't know that RSS is involved. Meta (Facebook) also has some support for RSS. ![]() They Market themselves simply as News Readers. That's because despite these apps both apearing when you look up the "top RSS readers of 2022", neither one explicitly says on their app page that they use RSS. If you asked most customers of these apps however, I would hazard a guess that most wouldn't be able to tell you what RSS was and would almost certainly tell you that they don't use RSS. Flipboard on the other hand, is doing even better with over 500 million downloads at time of writing. Feedly a cross platform reader has over 5 million downloads on Android alone. This of course leads me to the point of this article, is RSS dead in 2022? Kind of. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find any consumers who actively say they use an "RSS Reader" in 2022. ![]() On desktop, without a browser extension or web app, there is no longer a native RSS reader. Google killed it's own RSS reader (Google Reader) back in 2013.
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