I dip into my RSS feeds several times a day. It is my main immediate source of information.

Still seems to be widely supported, and it’s the basis of podcasting (I believe), so I don’t see it going anywhere.

I currently use Feedly but have been considering a self-hosted solution. I already run my own url shortener for example. It's the only way I see slashdot posts and also all my other news and feeds and blogs. Big and small. RSS forever.

I need to go through multiple news sources everyday. RSS is still king.

[1]TT-RSS [tt-rss.org] is my reader of choice and has been since Google Reader shutdown. These days I use the docker container on one of my servers.

There has been a site here and there that I had to remove due to their rss feed no longer updating over the years but the vast majority have maintained their feed. Sometimes I have to hunt for the feed or even look at the source of a website to find the URL but nearly all sites in my interests have feeds.

[1] https://tt-rss.org/

I use NetNewsWire every day to read all of my RSS feeds. It is great to be able to read news from tons of different sources all in one place without some blackbox of an algorithm in the loop.

Absolutely RSS readers are a critical part of my daily routine. And for that, I have found Feedly to be my speed, in the browser when I'm in my office, and the app on my phone when I'm not. Collecting all my news and interest sites in one place, easily able to skim through hundreds to thousands of headlines each day and easily jump the the source site to read the interesting articles. Plus the convenience of bookmarking the useful stories in one place without clogging up my browser bookmarks folders is a pe

All the time, self-hosted FreshRSS.

I used to use TinyTinyRSS until I moved to where the cable company ISP doesn't support incoming connections. Switched to The Old Reader. Besides that I could make do with Akregator. Mastodon and BlueSky both support RSS so I following postings there easily. My two RSS feeds are: [1]https://tudza.org/siteRss.xml [tudza.org] and [2]https://tudza.org/clocksRss.xm... [tudza.org]. The first is automatically generated by the software I wrote to make a web site out of Markdown pages. The second one I hand edit.

[1] https://tudza.org/siteRss.xml

[2] https://tudza.org/clocksRss.xml

Could have fooled me.

Literally reading this article from my RSS Reader.

https://theoldreader.com/

Cybersecurity news is often available via RSS. I can't imagine any good reason not to use RSS Feeds when you can focus on only the headlines.

Why would I want to waste time navigating to an actual site to read individual articles? I don't need to read comments to form an opinion.

My Newsblur install is my morning newspaper.

It is also a great filing cabinet - since most of my sources of new info flow through it, I use it all the time to find that thing I vaguely remember but can't place.

RSS was great. Snippets of news from all your chosen sources in one place. You could quickly delete the ones which were not interesting and just follow up on the ones which looked like had some value without going to the actual website.

Unfortunately, this kind of news delivery model is not good for busines i.e serving ads so the big tech effectively killed it by discouraging publishers from supporting RSS at all.

I have Slashdot, the BBC World News feed, and a few other things subscribed in the classic version of Flym.

Of course Google wanted to get rid of RSS, can't put rich advertising experiences in a text list and everyone's entries are given equal billing together ordered by time, so you can't sell "promoted" top-of-feed entries.

Any other method would be a large PITA keeping up with disparate interests and sources. It also avoids Appleâ(TM)s âoesuggestionsâ and Googleâ(TM)s tracking.

I've been using [1]https://newsblur.com/ [newsblur.com] for years now, and it's been rock solid. It has a web-based interface, as well as iPhone and iPad apps (and everything is synced). They also have Mac and Android apps (although I've never used them).

[1] https://newsblur.com/

I spend more time reading rss feeds than skimming any other social media. Itâ(TM)s what caused me to notice this article.

Since Google Reader was killed several years ago, I ended up trying Feedly on my mobile. It works just fine for RSS, although you can see some early extra features you did not ask for, like AI summaries. I understand Feedly owners need to get some income somehow.

Finding RSS feeds has been made difficult. So let me give you some comments on the evolution of some feeds. Slashdot readers may be interested to know that XKCD renders correctly in the app. The alt text of the comic appears through a Hover button

I wish the app was still available.. But the developer stopped since google was making it difficult to have the RSS app on the google store. I still use it and love it for my custom non also curated news feeds

> Google wanted to kill off RSS a few years back, and it has since fallen out of favor

Yeah. I don't know many people who still use Google.

[1]https://jangernert.gitlab.io/b... [gitlab.io]

NewsFlash is excellent if you're a GNOME user, or probably even if you aren't.

Use it every day.

[1] https://jangernert.gitlab.io/blog/posts/news-flash/

FeedDemon (by Nick Bradbury) is the reader I've been using for over 20 years. Hasn't had an update for more the 15 years, but still works like a champ (pretty impressive feat for windows software). What's cool is that much of its behavior comes from external XSLT files, so I've been able to tweak the UI and add a little custom functionality. It's a great design that's really stood the test of time. I subscribe to over 50 feeds and more than half have daily content.

Input-wise, I use a terminal-based reader called [1]newsboat [newsboat.org] on a daily basis.

Output-wise, I choose not to burden the world with RSS's shortcomings (“guid” not being—oh, I don't know—a globally unique ID , only permitting locale information at the feed and not article level, etc). Instead, I output Atom using a beautiful code module called [2]python-feedgen [kiesow.be].

Aaron Swartz died for our sins. The least we could do is stop saying “RSS” when we actually mean “Atom”.

[1] https://newsboat.org/

[2] https://feedgen.kiesow.be/

Yeah, I use it multiple times a day. I use Inoreader and I pay for it. I use rules and folders and tags to filter things for me and cut down the bullshit.

I use it to parse my Reddit subs, most news websites, YouTube channels, etc, etc. To be honest it's pretty rare that sites don't support RSS if they're delivering content.

However it apparently also has a scraper to force some sites which don't have that into a feed, but I haven't used that.

I use ighome.com daily. Sometimes it's hard to find the actual RSS feed for a site, though, and some feeds are broken. A lamentable loss of a great idea, 'hey, tell me what your content is!'

The first thing I install on an os is Feedly

RSS is my lifeline for work! Without it, I’d be lost.

Feedbin has been my go-to RSS service. It’s not cheap, but considering the number of feeds I subscribe to, it’s totally worth it. Plus, it’s got a great email newsletter to feed feature that works wonders.

I use Reeder on both macOS and iOS as my client.

When my.yahoo.com went away recently, I switched to protopage.com - I found this very post on the slashdot RSS feed.

Via SeaMonkey (which is also my email, and what I'm typing this on, and irc clent, and calendar, and...)

Google Reader was great.

Freely was a bearable alternative.

Now running FreshRSS on my NAS and feel like I'm back on Google Reader.

News, everything from world to local to tech to the sports I care about.

Comics, most of my favorites are available directly or through scrapers.

I run my own script in a cron job. It parses feeds, adds tags, filters out a lot of the sponsored posts and stuff I don't care about, then sends the rest to me in email.

Thanks to the tags, it's easy to move the resulting emails to sub-folders as they arrive.

Because email syncs across my devices, so do my feeds.

And it also serves as a canary for whether my server is up and connected. No new articles arriving? I'd better check on the server...

RSS is how I saw this article, too. After Google killed their own RSS reader I poked around at a few options and settled on [1]NewsBlur [newsblur.com] back in 2016. It has a free version, but after giving that a spin I elected to go for the paid version. $36/yr has been a pretty good investment IMO, save myself a lot of time checking between multiple sites manually. I could probably survive with the free account as I don't have that many RSS feeds but, eh, at this point I'm happy to keep paying until I need to really pinch m

[1] https://newsblur.com/

There has never been a less consequential "innovation" in the online era.

Migrated to a self-hosted docker container on my home NAS, and it's my main source of information since I'm off all forms of social media now. I still use my phone's Chrome discovery feed but I usually add sites to the RSS reader since it's good at blocking paywalls or article limits on places like The Atlantic.

Their web application is great. I also use it for bookmarking / read later as well (since Mozilla killed Pocket).

Try [1]Inoreader [inoreader.com] Press h to see the shortcuts. It's very efficient and well organized. I go through 500 or so articles a day in about an hour (easily skipping 90% of them)

[1] http://inoreader.com/

I'm reading Slashdot through RSS, with the RSS-Bridge and FreshRSS. I only drop here to write comments.

Oh very much, yes. I use Feedly, which is... fine.

Have used it for years, running on one of my VMs, works fantastically...Slashdot is a big reason I check it everyday (along with ESPN, space news stuffs, etc.)

... what software do you use?

Just my regular email client (Thunderbird). It's all I need.

TT-RSS install on my cloud server, web browser and android clients. Use it for everything I can. It vastly simplifies keeping up with news/ events/authors/sites I want to follow without having to visit dozens of sites daily. I've over 100 feeds I track, not counting the YouTube channels. On some I find articles to read daily, some weekly, some rarely. For example, I followed a link in my Slashdot feed to this story. I'd not have seen it if it wasn't in my feed.

RSS forever...

I coded my own blog platform with RSS feeds, actually it's a very simple thing to implement.

To read I use Firefox+Feedbro

The Slashdot Sidebar uses RSS but it doesn't seem to be configurable anymore.

Slashdot is just waiting for RSS to die, I guess.

I came here from a self hosted RSS reader. Stringer for anyone who might ask, mostly due to the ease of firing up a docker compose file and calling it a day.

Moved to Feedly when Google killed off their RSS reader and still use it multiple times a day. Is the best way to keep up with sites. A nice, scrollable list that is consistent across all data sources and allows you to quickly and easily skim and then only click on the headlines of relevance. I don't understand how it's fallen out of favour as it's an excellent user experience.

I'm much older and use links (similar to lynx but with tables) in text-mode as my main browser. Occasionally I'll have to load something graphic for java[script]/... which is otherwise detestable and to be avoided.

So I have a simple script that dumps a list of URLs into a text file (~100kB). Then `diff` on an earlier version give a few pages of interesting changes. Done and not dependant only YAP (yet another protocol, RSS).

well worth it.

Yes, I'm definitively a graybeard, so everyone under 40 is a kid. Ironically though, as a senior IT leader, I sat through my org's interns' post-internship (end of internship?) presentations just last week. One recounted her learnings as she leveraged various RSS feeds of cyber-threat intelligence news to... of course, feed an AI summarization engine that would spam said summarizations to the SecOps team. I almost asked her whether this Frankensteinian monster also plugged-into FidoNet or Usenet before I th

I tried RSS for news multiple times, with different readers. The problem is, most RSS feeds contain WAY too many articles each day. I don't want to sift through dozens of trash articles to find one or two that are useful. Curation is critical (for me).

I actually like FireFox's New Tab page. It's not RSS, but it serves a similar purpose. The curation is decent, and covers many sites across the web.