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Most of the online content I consume comes to me either via RSS or Atom (I don't have numbers on the split). Not once have I thought - "Gosh darn it, this blog uses RSS instead of Atom, even though Atom is so obviously the better choice. Now I don't even want to add this blog to my feed." ...

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I don't think this article is aimed at consumers, but at developers who might have to write parsers, or people who are trying to decide what feed format to use for their own content.

Though you might be upset about RSS being used when your reader screws up with it, because some things are difficult to interpret. Of course, you won't know why it screws up, and you'll probably blame the person who wrote the feed, not the format itself.

As a concrete example: I have been frustrated by title encoding issues on CSS-Tricks (HTML tag names getting broken) multiple times, which would never have occurred if they just used Atom instead of RSS.

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