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Comment by InvisibleUp | Hacker News Reader

RSS doesn't work all that well across multiple devices, such as a desktop and a mobile phone. You can subscribe to them on both, sure, but they won't be synced with each other.

Apps such as Google Reader and such resolve that problem, but the death of Google Reader really shook a lot of people's trust in RSS, I think. Plus now RSS has to compete with social media feeds, which are where a lot of people are looking for updates already.

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I think that is a good thing. For "syncing across devices" to be a server-side feature of RSS, that would require that the server be keeping track of who I am and what I have read. The way the RSS protocol is, it is stateless and may be completely anonymous. Keeping track of the state is (and should be) the application's job.

Syncing across devices isn't the job of RSS, or any protocol, and certainly not the role of a data format in the case of RSS.

State is an application's job.

Ok then we can just phrase it as there's no standard way to sync RSS subs across apps. Point is its a clear user frustration with no easy solve.

Fever API is implemented in many apps.

Cross platform applications and web based readers exist. It is easily solved using one of those.

Let’s try and read the comment more charitably: most clients do not offer a good solution for this either, making the protocol less appealing than it might otherwise be.

I think you are not talking about rss

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