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Comment by jeffreyrogers | Hacker News Reader

Did RSS ever go away? Almost all of the blogs I follow still have RSS feeds. Maybe I'm just in a bubble. I think the decline in relative importance of RSS is certainly real, but that's more an effect of people getting their information from more centralized sources (like HN).

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I don't think many sites removed RSS, but many new sites and services in the last ~5 years, never implemented or served it in the first place. The typical share icons now are FB, Instagram, and Twitter. Email is less common (although usually there's an email newsletter signup). For a while, there wouldn't be link to RSS on the page, but you could still find the .rss or .atom link in the HTML header. But a lot of times that's not there anymore either.

It makes me sad to have to settle for Liking a company's FB page, since it's up to FB whether or not I ever see it.

Youtube is like this. They don't advertise rss feeds but include them in the page source of youtube channels. In the one or two times I couldn't find the link in the source, I'd just copy the channel id of the channel and use the feed url from another channel. Works like a charm!

A surprising amount of services have this. You can even turn your Gmail inbox into an (authenticated) RSS feed[1]. Small warning: it uses an outdated XML feed namespace, but most readers should handle it fine.

[1]: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/feed/atom/

> "For a while, there wouldn't be link to RSS on the page, but you could still find the .rss or .atom link in the HTML header. But a lot of times that's not there anymore either."

Most blogs that I visit will highlight the RSS ("Subscribe to this page") icon in Firefox's icon bar. (The RSS icon is not present by default, but you can add it via the Customize dialog.)

For Chrome, there might be extensions that implement similar RSS auto-detection functionality.

I have no idea. I'm still using it and all the blogs I read still use it. I'm a little confused. I think the death of rss has been greatly exaggerated. As an aside I described one of my worst experiences with food poisoning as "having the winds" I'm a little biased against the name I guess.

I can tell by my experience of building https://telescope.surf, a lot of the sites are killing RSS or simply not linking it from any of their pages. I had to build crawlers for a lot of the sites.

It didn't. But supposing it had, a combo newsreader/podcast player wouldn't have been the thing that brought it back.

Same thoughts here. I actually designed my own template for ATOM feeds for my Hugo generated blog. My blog serves both RSS and ATOM for the home page sections and even various taxonomies. So people interested in Emacs can subscribe to a feed of Emacs related posts only.

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