Is it just me, or is RSS not as useful as in the past?

[kylera]

I remember being able to view entire articles from RSS feeds in the past. Then I stepped away from RSS for a while and I've given it a shot...only to see that many websites seem to allow only a smidge of an article to show up on the feed viewer and force you to visit the website proper to read the whole article.

Am I just using the wrong apps, or what?

 

[Jessica Lares]

No, it isn't just you. I use the Shared Links feature in Safari for that reason. People saw their traffic go down, and there went ad revenue along with it. I understand that RSS was to blame for it.

 

[rhett7660]

I remember being able to view entire articles from RSS feeds in the past. Then I stepped away from RSS for a while and I've given it a shot...only to see that many websites seem to allow only a smidge of an article to show up on the feed viewer and force you to visit the website proper to read the whole article.

Am I just using the wrong apps, or what?

Nope this seems to be the norm now. I still use RSS a lot, but I am finding more and more are forcing you to visit the page in order to finish reading the article. Kind of a pain especially if the page isn't setup for a mobile device or if you get blasted with adds that pop up all over the freaking place. Those sites I usually dump if it happens to much.

 

[haxrnick]

I no longer use RSS and basically now only use twitter. I just follow the feeds I was following using RSS.

 

[ToonerBru]

RSS feed details?

In my car, I have an RSS reader capability.
it requires feeds in the format:
http://www.abx.com/rss.xml
The feeds I found on the Macrumors site are not in that format.

https://macrumors.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201096058-Where-are-the-RSS-feeds-


Am I missing something?
or should I concluded from this discussion thread that I shouldn't bother anyway?

 

[kylera]

Kind of a pain especially if the page isn't setup for a mobile device or if you get blasted with adds that pop up all over the freaking place.

This was exactly the reason why I got back into the RSS game.

Fortunately enough, some apps allow you to read articles in Instapaper/Google/Readability Mobilizer, so I guess it's a bit of a workaround.

 

[Tomorrow]

I never saw the need/use for RSS. I still don't, but I also don't hear nearly as many people going on about it as I used to.