A lot of people still use email subscriptions for staying up to date, but there also were (and are) a lot of people who found such subscriptions unclear or were annoyed because those emails end up in the SPAM folder a lot. You’ll probably agree with me when I say that it can become very annoying if you have to visit all those websites day after day to make sure you don’t miss anything, right?Īt first, staying up to date with your favorite websites was to subscribe to the newsletter. How many websites do you visit every day? A lot of people visit over ten websites every day, because those websites publish new articles on a daily base and they don’t want to miss anything. Reeder is not as good, but is comfortable enough for me.Get free updates of new articles, interviews & roundups here, or subscribe to our RSS feed. Sadly, they switched from one-time payment to monthly subscription and I can't justify the cost when I only use it in a very light way(just for sorting items). All the gestures optimized for single-hand operations are just fantastic. If I ever need to click a link in an article, jumping from a reader software to a browser is too big of a context switch that disrupts my flow - just let me go through all the feeds right now, and I will decide how to prioritize the most interesting ones and allocate my reading time later.įor my use cases, Unread on iOS gave me the best experience. Ad-blocking - given the current popularity of RSS, I don't know if it really makes sense financially for websites to do so, but I notice some feeds do inject ads. Some personal blog sites have very beautiful (or interesting) designs that I find myself actually enjoys poking around. e.g.: Project release notes on GitHub, which usually come with links to PRs, commits.etc, so I need to open several browser tabs to consume the content anyways. Some feeds are just better to be read in a web browser. Some feeds only provide title/summary and not the full text article (yes, I know there are full-text extraction service, but last time I tried them, none of them was perfect, and I don't want to play the guessing game - "Am I reading the full article, or a broken extraction?")
Instead, I only use a RSS reader software to quickly go through all the unread items and send interesting articles to a read-later or bookmark service.
Not sure if it's just me, but I have not used a RSS reader as a serious reading software for years.
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