If you are making something that would make sense to include an rss feed, please include an rss feed.
Rss is great!
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It is a standard useful format for a common purpose/use.
You know every irritating thing that some websites with their own dashboard feed system thing do, like rearranging the order of things, or only showing the things that /they/ think are important, and ignoring user stated preferences?
With rss you don't have those problems.
Rss respects user choice.
It allows users to follow their stated preferences, instead of what the website thinks are their revealed preferences.
Of course we do, RSS is indispensable. Forget the "RSS is dead" crowd, because it really isn't. It's not trendy like it used to be, and arguably didn't "take over the world". But there's a lot of ground between "dead" and "rule the world". RSS is awesome and everybody should continue to produce and consume it where it makes sense.
To avoid a thread filled entirely with confirmation bias, I'll post to say I used to use RSS extensively until about 5 years ago. I never used Google Reader, so the fate of that product didn't affect me.
Mostly, my appetite for news has changed, in that I went from passively consuming news to seeking out particular sites and reading more articles -- and also, because of HN, I discover more news than I could organically follow through RSS on my own.
Yes. Adoption never waned, only implementation. Not as hip an monitizable as social buttons. Therefore less pressure on devs to support it. Find a way to push ads, and watch it take off again.
In at least one webcomic I follow, a (fairly unobtrusive, using project wonderful) ad is included in the rss feed for it.
If nothing else, the rss feed could just include the link to the full post (and not the post content), which is useful in that it prompts the user to view one's page, I think.
I used to use them a lot more but got overwhelmed by the amount of content of some of the websites I read were posting. They are very useful though for following multiple blogs.
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Rss is great!
Edit: It is a standard useful format for a common purpose/use.
You know every irritating thing that some websites with their own dashboard feed system thing do, like rearranging the order of things, or only showing the things that /they/ think are important, and ignoring user stated preferences?
With rss you don't have those problems.
Rss respects user choice.
It allows users to follow their stated preferences, instead of what the website thinks are their revealed preferences.
Easy enough to code the feeds - if someone has a need for it, why not.
Mostly, my appetite for news has changed, in that I went from passively consuming news to seeking out particular sites and reading more articles -- and also, because of HN, I discover more news than I could organically follow through RSS on my own.
If nothing else, the rss feed could just include the link to the full post (and not the post content), which is useful in that it prompts the user to view one's page, I think.