Does Anyone Still Use Rss Feeds? (poll)

DavidGP · Mar 24, 2016

Just when navigating the threads on the forum noticed it but never took noticed of the RSS icon lighting up when you hover over a forum title area like Software, so just thought as I used to use RSS many years back, but dont now, how many of you still use it?

For those that answer dont know what it is then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

Sgt. Tibbs · Mar 24, 2016

Not only do I not still use them, I've never used them. Tried it once a hundred years ago, and saw no point.

Imandy Mann · Mar 24, 2016

Not everyday but often. The feeds let me read a headline and decide with stories I'm interest in enough to check out. Mostly because of using metered wireless. I do use abc news rss and U.S. news and World Report. Also I have "Feed Demon" installed on this '8 comp. It allows for a wide range of topics /subdivisions. One of my email sources has an extensive selection of rss feeds. I can scan the items with a lot lower hit to my gbytes than loading ever site.

LauraR · Mar 25, 2016

I've always seen them around but never knew what they were or cared enough to look them up and use them. I guess I knew the general idea of them, but not the specifics.

DavidGP · Mar 25, 2016

Those are both fair points, I think its a Marmite/Vegemite type thing you either like it or don't. I think it was great to get quick snapshots of new news or articles threads you wanted to follow but wanted to pick and choose what to read, but more so when internet was slow, but these days most of use can eat data up.

Major Attitude · Mar 25, 2016

Every day Why load websites over and over when you can see whats new and only click what you want

Mimsy · Mar 25, 2016

On my old phone, I had an RSS reader that let me stay up to date about the blogs and websites I follow. On my current phone, the web browser is so much better than it was that I no longer feel a need for the RSS.

dxace1 · May 13, 2016

I am a former journalist and RSS feeds were a major competitive advantage, and still
are, and a little known tool. Feedly, which I was fortunate to obtain a lifetime Pro membership
for, is a wonderful RSS tool for desktop and mobile. Too bad more people don't appreciate what
RSS can do!

DavidGP · May 14, 2016

Hi dxace1, I can imagine in the press RSS is a great tool, but I can see that and you may enlighten me in that Twitter may have taken over from RSS as the live news media tool?
BTW is that the White House in the background of your use pic?

Anon-469e6fb48c · May 14, 2016

Sgt. Tibbs said: ↑

Not only do I not still use them, I've never used them. Tried it once a hundred years ago, and saw no point.
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I tried my self lol.

RSS is like a UFO to me i run computations in my head binary code but RSS is another world to me.

dxace1 · May 14, 2016

DavidGP said: ↑

Hi dxace1, I can imagine in the press RSS is a great tool, but I can see that and you may enlighten me in that Twitter may have taken over from RSS as the live news media tool?
BTW is that the White House in the background of your use pic?
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What's important to understand is that unlike Twitter, which often runs extremely fast depending on news flow, snd can be cluttered, RSS allows you to link directly to specific parts of numerous sites to monitor content, It's like having numerous always updating newspapers and you can quickly assess what you want to read in more depth. Yes, that is the White House in the background.

DavidGP · May 21, 2016

dxace1 said: ↑

What's important to understand is that unlike Twitter, which often runs extremely fast depending on news flow, snd can be cluttered, RSS allows you to link directly to specific parts of numerous sites to monitor content, It's like having numerous always updating newspapers and you can quickly assess what you want to read in more depth.
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I agree with you assessment and RSS is a great too and more in that Twitter is a bit of a clone of IRC but not as good.

Andytay70 · May 21, 2016

I still use feeds via FeedDemon and its my way of keeping upto date with whats going on.

DavidGP · Jul 9, 2016

Not massively scientific with 13 voters but 69% for not using RSS is a big margin, likely its a dead media over Twitter as a social comms tool these days.
What could be the next tool for keeping us up to date with news globally and news we can custom to our needs, I just find that news is fragmented to a specific tool or app, not easily compensable, I think the latest Win10 News app is not so bad as you can customise it more now,

theefool · Jul 9, 2016

I've personally never saw the need for RSS feeds. Then again, I don't see the need, personally, for twitter.

Fred Claus · Jul 14, 2016

I read the RSS feeds of news and blog sites, but I've never tried it on a forum. Has anyone used them? what's it like?

Gensuknives · Jul 22, 2016

Being an old fart, I have never used RSS feeds or Twitter either, for that matter. I still use the phone and text and email for social contacts.
But I love lurking here and observing how the intelligent folks roll.

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