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Digg has always been late with everything since they lost their throne at the top. I doubt the world will wait for them to deliver something new.

Sites like Digg, Reddit, Tumblr etc should provide their own version of RSS readers. Wordpress.com has recently introduced their own reader and it supposedly has a feature to browse external sites. Why can't Reddit and Tumblr do the same thing?

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> Sites like Digg, Reddit, Tumblr etc should provide their own version of RSS readers.

Why?

Because those of us who are used to of scrolling content from these services, can stay at one place.

Because it would be just as stupid as Google shutting down it's Reader.

I've wanted Tumblr to allow you to subscribe to external rss feeds for a while (I think it did at one point) -- some of he blogs I read are text heavy, some are graphics heavy, etc., and it would be nice to have separate readers optimized for the different types of content. It would be nice to be able to subscribe to "tumblrs" on the tumblr dashboard whether or not they're actually hosted on tumblr.

Reddit's kind of the same thing: it would be nice to have a reader integrated with the discussion.

The dashboard isn't good at telling you whether you've seen a post already and moves much too fast for traditional blogs that post once a day or less to even show up within the first few pages. I don't think Tumblr has the right UI for an RSS reader.

Sure, but there are plenty of light, "pretty" blogs that I'll browse when I have time to kill, and tumblr wouldn't be bad for that. I'm not arguing in favor of Tumblr necessarily, but specialization. I'd love Twitter to have a separate but connected rss reader, for "twitter-like" content, for example. Any of these social network or quasi social network services could offer a customized rss reader - it's like having the best JavaScript "share this page on..." button possible.

Doesn't each content provider (Digg, Reddit, Tumblr, etc) providing its own RSS reader defeat the purpose of RSS in the first place? The reason I enjoyed Reader (or any RSS reader for that matter) is the fact I didn't need to visit X number of sites to read content.

I don't think it does. If Tumblr had their own reader, you wouldn't have to visit X sites - you could just visit Tumblr.

If Google+ can't fathom a use for RSS, why should Tumblr?

Maybe I am misunderstanding your ideas but I guess I don't see the benefit of visiting Tumblr's RSS reader to read Tumblr. Why not just read from Tumblr's website at that point?

I think the original commenter's point was that they frequently use Tumblr's current method of reading other Tumbls, and they would prefer that other web content appear there, too.

It's not visiting Tumblr's Reader to read Tumblr - it's visiting Tumblr's Reader to read everythign.

I see what you're saying but I am not suggesting that people would use all these services all the time. The point is that you would have a choice of "getting" your content in the application you are most comfortable with. Imagine if you are a daily user of TweetDeck and know how to filter your content (so you have relatively mastered the information overload already). Now, wouldn't it be better for you if you could pull in RSS feeds as well into TweetDeck?

The wordpress.com reader barely works for blogs on wordpress.com. I don't know if it lets you add RSS feeds, but I wouldn't use it.

That's a different point altogether, but at least there is an associated service.

The only thing Digg about this Digg is the brand Digg.

Digg is under a new team. From what Ive seen so far, they are really quick to ship.

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