Not to put to fine a point on it, but does anyone use feed readers anymore? Hell, does anyone read feeds at all anymore? I'm the geek in my circle and no one I know relies on feeds.
I've tried to 'get it' about why they are good and have given them a try, but I end up back at HN or Reddit for my updates. Am I missing something that everyone else knows about? Is my time being wasted checking web pages instead of checking feeds?
I can't answer your overarching question, but the majority of Feed Digest's users were merely processing snd republishing feeds to HTML includes for their sites rather than actually subscribing to or using the RSS output features. Think RSS-to-HTML (or JavaScript.)
I've tried to 'get it' about why they are good and have given them a try, but I end up back at HN or Reddit for my updates. Am I missing something that everyone else knows about? Is my time being wasted checking web pages instead of checking feeds?