I was extremely bummed when setting up RSS for the glance app to find that a bunch of stuff I'd assumed would just have RSS feeds, do not. Mostly local things that post regular updates to pages that already look like feeds.
- Three local independent theaters
- Every local venue I checked in my city (admittedly only checked a few I was specifically interested in)
- The local dvd rental place (we still have one and it's neat. The announce their newer niche additions via an updating page)
- My local folk school that hosts events and has an updated news page with no feed
There were a few things I can't remember now that I was shocked to see regularly update pages with lists of updates that there is no way to subscribe to. I would have expected most of these sites to be built using some kind of automated tool that would just include rss or atom. I guess most of the offer email lists, which is a crappy way to get updates comparatively imo.
I'm probably going to use a combination of changedetection.io and rss-bridge to get updates from these sites, but like, seriously?
Something is up with your web page. It stutters when scrolling, and crashes my tab. I’m using Safari on an iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 18.6.2 (22G100). No content blockers or extensions.
Definitely not dead, thank goodness. I probably read 4-5 articles a day through RSS and skim through dozens.
Even so it's no longer a de facto standard the way it used to be.
haha, I skim through about 800 a day and read dozens of them.
Every year around newyears time I trim it back, but it inevitably grows again.
Podcasts needs an RSS feed, that about sums it up how not dead it is.
I was extremely bummed when setting up RSS for the glance app to find that a bunch of stuff I'd assumed would just have RSS feeds, do not. Mostly local things that post regular updates to pages that already look like feeds.
- Three local independent theaters
- Every local venue I checked in my city (admittedly only checked a few I was specifically interested in)
- The local dvd rental place (we still have one and it's neat. The announce their newer niche additions via an updating page)
- My local folk school that hosts events and has an updated news page with no feed
There were a few things I can't remember now that I was shocked to see regularly update pages with lists of updates that there is no way to subscribe to. I would have expected most of these sites to be built using some kind of automated tool that would just include rss or atom. I guess most of the offer email lists, which is a crappy way to get updates comparatively imo.
I'm probably going to use a combination of changedetection.io and rss-bridge to get updates from these sites, but like, seriously?
You can give notify-me.rs a try if you want as well. We have a free plan available, and we should be able to track all of the sites you mentioned.
If you do give it a try, let me know what you think, since I'm one of the founders.
Cheers!
Something is up with your web page. It stutters when scrolling, and crashes my tab. I’m using Safari on an iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 18.6.2 (22G100). No content blockers or extensions.