> Let me guess, email is dead? RSS is also dead right?
Email is dead, RSS is stone cold dead and buried under 100 ft of permafrost.
All mainstream browsers have removed RSS support. Virtually no major website still offers RSS feeds. When you see an RSS/Atom icon on a page today, it's either an old Wordpress theme that noone bothered to update, or some stubborn ideologue who insists that RSS is still a thing because there is a document somewhere that specifies it.
The dream of open syndication is over. Wanting it to be otherwise doesn't make it so.
> Email is dead, RSS is stone cold dead and buried under 100 ft of permafrost.
This claim is as bold, as it is baseless, as evidenced by dozens of emails I send and receive each day, and by the fact that I stumbled upon this thread via RSS, which I use daily to receive almost all my subscriptions.
I switched to an RSS reader recently and was shocked to find that every site I was interested in, large and small, had an RSS feed. I guess I was lucky.
Even Reddit still has RSS. And for anything that doesn't you can probably find a third party offering RSS - either something generic or specific to a website - e.g. for HN: https://hnrss.org/.
RSS is not dead per se, but it is not discoverable for normal people and not something that most typical mom'n'pop consumers or even teens would know about.
If you go around in a city asking people what a RSS feed is you will definitely will get more blanks than asking them about e-mail or facebook.
E-Mail is used a lot still, don't see that going away anytime soon either.
Email is dead, RSS is stone cold dead and buried under 100 ft of permafrost.
All mainstream browsers have removed RSS support. Virtually no major website still offers RSS feeds. When you see an RSS/Atom icon on a page today, it's either an old Wordpress theme that noone bothered to update, or some stubborn ideologue who insists that RSS is still a thing because there is a document somewhere that specifies it.
The dream of open syndication is over. Wanting it to be otherwise doesn't make it so.