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Comment by pavel_lishin | Hacker News Reader

> If I want to check updates I can open a browser and visit a specific blog once per week/month. Literally no effort.

That sounds like rather a lot of effort to me - remembering that a given blog exists, remembering its URL, remembering to check it every so often.

A buddy of mine just updated his blog after a 14 month hiatus. I forgot he even had a blog, and I would have definitely missed the update if it wasn't in my RSS reader.

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Well, I tend to believe that I remember things worth remembering. If I would forget about any of the blogs I read from time to time, I wouldn't consider it a loss.

Someone else here mentioned they follow 700 YT channels. I follow maybe 4, so I think we are from different planets.

As someone with ADHD, I’m glad that the technology exists to create a RSS feed off a website even if the author intentionally doesn’t maintain one.

I don’t think “if it’s important you’ll remember it” is applicable to everyone.

I don't know how to see the number of YT channels I subscribe to, but I bet it's similar.

I also have over 1000 tabs open in my Firefox session.

Come on, if checking a blog once a month is too much effort for you, maybe you're spending way too much time glued to your RSS reader and not enough time outside touching grass. Just saying.

What an uncharitable diagnosis of my life.

Same could be said of your comment to my submission, and hard work.

For me, it's exactly the opposite problem. If I'm not checking something every day, I forget about it.

For example, I'm subscribed to over 700 YouTube channels, but most of them only post one a week to once a quarter. I force notifications on for these, and it's always a treat when one of my favorites pops up in the feed.

There are very few YouTube channels that I want to watch daily, unless it's a series... or Simon Whistler.

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