Probably not as comprehensive as RSS but the only reason I keep FB anymore is for the news feeds. Cars, racing, manufacturer, suppliers, welding, sports, NWS, local news etc... even the county 911.
FB friends and family have lost their berkeleying minds lately but I overlook that for the news aspect.
In reply to fasted58 :
Giggle, he said Face Book and News in the same sentence.
Adrian_Thompson said:In reply to fasted58 :
Giggle, he said Face Book and News in the same sentence.
Maybe you're using it wrong then.
I like Feedly for news and Tapatalk for forum posts.
In reply to JeffHarbert :
explain to me the ways of RSS for podcasts. Can I automatically download them?
I'm either too young, or too old to have any idea what you're talking about.
Not interested.
I use RSS every day.
Random Sasquatch Sighting?
Newsfox. Daily.
Vague clue, kinda and don't care. DO CARE THAT RIGHT CLICK WORKS.
why did I just scroll thru all this ????? in hopes of some sort of 21st century puter enlightenment that I thought I might actually can't live without......zzzzzzzz
Is RSS some model of Porsche? If not, I don't know what it is. I'm old.
Still use Feedly every day. I think for some folks Twitter has replaced it, but there's still too much noise on there for me.
In reply to ProDarwin :
I use DoggCatcher for Android to listen to podcasts. It can find a lot just with its built-in search function, but you can also manually add a podcast RSS feed. This is, hands down, the best podcast app for Android I've used.
Welcome to 2013. RSS died that July when Google dropped the most used way to consume it. They did so because it gave out all the information without any of those valuable page clicks. It was difficult to cram 3rd party ads into the stream. It didn't have tweet or like or share buttons or other good ways to track people's every move. In short - it was hard to monetize other than to charge a subscription... and no one really wants to pay when everything else is "free" (data mining, privacy invasion and kludgey interfaces designed for click-thrus notwithstanding). It's a nice indicator of what the web has become. A giant stalker pick-pocket that trades increasingly useless information for any little nugget of data about the consumer.
The web is worse without it but you don't need to maintain support anymore.
Don't use don't care. Now if the @grm_mag twitter feed was more active that would be nice.
Huckleberry said:Welcome to 2013. RSS died that July when Google dropped the most used way to consume it. They did so because it gave out all the information without any of those valuable page clicks. It was difficult to cram 3rd party ads into the stream. It didn't have tweet or like or share buttons or other good ways to track people's every move. In short - it was hard to monetize other than to charge a subscription... and no one really wants to pay when everything else is "free" (data mining, privacy invasion and kludgey interfaces designed for click-thrus notwithstanding). It's a nice indicator of what the web has become. A giant stalker pick-pocket that trades increasingly useless information for any little nugget of data about the consumer.
The web is worse without it but you don't need to maintain support anymore.
M2Pilot said:Is RSS some model of Porsche? If not, I don't know what it is. I'm old.
My sentiments exactly.
I use it as a simple way to populate content across my websites for syndication, but that's it.
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