Feeder is a company behind an RSS reader browser extension, and its blog covers RSS usage surveys and how to follow sites.
HN commenters mention using the Feeder extension, with one paying for Pro and others noting limits like a 50-item cap and minor bugs.
Rather than having a daily list, I use Feeder (Chrome extension: http://feeder.co/)
to read my RSS feeds, I had always preferred it to Google Reader, I never did get myself into the mantra of checking Reader often (it ended up being once every few months, when I randomly remembered)
; however Feeder is nice in its minimalistic approach, just showing me how many items for each feed, which encourages me to zero it out, although unlike Reader it just shows the titles of RSS feed items, so I end up judging whether or not to read an article based on the title.
A few feeds I follow:
News
* Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/rss and https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss [a lot of the posts are repeated over both, and note these are not necessarily the front page posts, my guess is that they are upvoted new posts, so I end up reading some posts before they reach the front page])
* Phoronix - http://www.phoronix.com/ (http://www.phoronix.com/rss.php)
* ThreatPost - http://threatpost.com/ (http://threatpost.com/feed)
* TheNextWeb - http://thenextweb.com/ (http://feeds2.feedburner.com/thenextweb)
* Wired - http://www.wired.com/ (http://feeds.wired.com/wired/index)
* iClarified - http://www.iclarified.com/ (http://iclarified.com/rss/rss.xml)
* TorrentFreak - https://torrentfreak.com/ (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Torrentfreak)
* r/WorldNews - http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews (http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/.rss)
Blogs
* Securelist -…
I, not yet wanting particularly to extricate myself from Chrome, use Ublock Origin Lite. It works about as well as the original (although it's less good with paywalls and blocking individual site elements, by which I mean 'not good at all'.) If you can and don't already I would try to replace as much as you can with RSS (which is also really good with paywalls - I use feeder.co and it lets me get around the Atlantic's paywall. Its privacy policy is here: https://feeder.co/help/legal/privacy-policy/. It's hosted in Sweden, in the EU, for what that's worth.)
But as you might have figured out from my use of Chrome, I'm mostly ok with the fact that Google knows everything about me. So I'm probably not the best person to ask.
Absolutely! I found this post via my RSS feed for Hacker News.
I really like the https://feeder.co/ extension, and even pay for the Pro license. There are a few minor bugs, but overall it works extremely well for me. I don't often use the account Reader feature, but the extension has a nice way to organize various feeds into categories/folders. You can stay on the free tier forever if you'd like, but to sync across multiple machines you'll need to pay.
FWIW, the Chrome extension is named 'RSS Feed Reader' if you want to search for it. For Firefox, Edge, and iOS, it's just named 'Feeder'; Android - "Feeder.co"
The question is also meant somewhat ironically, i think everyone who uses rss knows that it is not dead. But i still find it interesting to understand how people use rss and why they stopped. Feeder did something similar, but stopped and I wanted to continue it. https://feeder.co/blog/484-state-of-rss-survey-the-results
I also think that it would be wrong to not disclaim that I develop my own reader, but I am sorry that it looks like an ad, I will reduce this.
We’re working full time on https://feeder.co and growing MRR every month. Does the average consumer know what RSS is? No. Will it become the next Twitter anytime soon? Probably not. Is there a need for managing news outside of your e-mail inbox, our usage data definitely shows yes. Is the market ultra saturated? You betcha!
That said we’re eager to help grow the space. Would love to know if HN has any ideas or feedback on this.
I use Feeder: https://feeder.co/
It’s not perfect and has a display limit of 50 for a feed’s most recent items, and you can’t sort feeds (unless you pay). But it works well enough. What’s nice is that it actually renders YT links in the reader, with the option to view them in “reader mode”, which conveniently prevents ads from showing.