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Comment by SquareWheel

2 days ago

Isn't RSS a smashing success? I changed readers after Google Reader died, but otherwise, my feeds have been working seamlessly for nearly 20 years. I rarely meet a site with updates that doesn't support RSS.

Until recently, many sites had RSS functionality because the infrastructure they are using provided some of automated RSS generation. Also, many sites stopped providing "full-content" RSS feeds, but gave pointers to the website itself to drive clicks.

"Real" RSS gives you the whole content. The blog platform I use does this, for example. They are not greedy people and just want to provide a blog platform so, they use the thing as it's supposed to be.