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I didn't post up my answer on the site because someone else had already covered it. In short, yes people still use them and given how easy they are to implement I see no reason not to put them onto your site.

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Absolutely, especially if your readers are tech-savvy. Personally, having a feed drastically lowers the "compellingness barrier" a site must exceed to gain my sustained attention. There are very few sites that are interesting enough to make me visit them manually every day, but lots of sites interesting enough that I'll add them to my feed reader.

The "given how easy they are to implement I see no reason not to" part is what bugs me the most about this. I don't think there's a modern language in existence that doesn't have at least 3 free ways to implement an RSS/Atom feed. Every framework I can think of (ASP.Net (MVC and Web Forms), Django, Rails) has it built in and it takes virtually no resources.

Unless you use an ad service that doesn't support it I can't see a reason why you wouldn't implement (I can't speak for other languages but in ASP.NET MVC I could implement a feed in the time it took him to make that post)

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