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Wow, totally forgot I've used this rss reader in the past. Happy to still it's still rocking and stronger than ever!

Ps: love the statement "it's like podcast, but for reading".

which is ironic, because podcasts are built on this technology, if i remember correctly. but yeah. people "got" podcasts but somehow have a hard time accepting rss/atom readers.

i have netnewswire and it's great!

Actually, RSS was not unaccepted from my experience. Instead, demise of Google Reader with the desire of user capture (Medium, newsletters and in browser notifications) starved reader applications of RSS feeds.

It accelerated when browsers removed RSS readers, so nobody had an incentive to offer them.

Since people fed up, RSS started to reappear. It was never dead for me, but finding feeds were impossible. Now the people I care to read offer RSS feeds, and I'm a happy RSS user again.

A lot of people don't get podcasts. They think it's a genre (and that it applies to the show(s) they watch on YouTube).

For a large segment, telling them that a feed reader is for podcasts but for reading will just elicit a "what?"

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