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Why is RSS so great ? How is it really any different than an e-mail client ?

Asked by williampeck in Blogs, RSS

Tags: Blogging, RSS, RSS Feeds, RSS readers

I recently started blogging a lot on political things, focusing on one site.

The site I frequented used Blogger and Blogger commenting software, which I really liked, because comments were delivered to my e-mail (g-mail) which was great.

Now they have started using a third party commenting software (ECHO by js-kit), which has pushed me to learn RSS readers, but RSS has left me less than impressed.

My main question is how is RSS really any different than subscribing to e-mail ? It seems way overcomplicated to me, and I am a (run of the mill) software programmer

With Blogger, I could post a comment, click "subscribe", and the comments start showing up in e-mail, clean as a whistle. I could consume the data easily and new comments were delivered to me in gmail (which was great because of the way gmail "stacks" messages with the same subject). And I used gmail on mobile as well, to great effect.

Now, with RSS,
- I can't find an RSS reader I like (Google Reader has been less than impressive)
- it's like jumping through hoops to set it up to subscribe to comments to a blog article.
- I have to do different things to receive on mobile (BB Storm)

I can see where RSS reader is good for receiving articles from a web site, you subscribe once and the articles roll in, but to use RSS reader for comments just seems to me to be way too complicated.

As a result of my favorite blog moving away from blogger commenting to ECHO by js-lit, I hardly ever comment anymore, because it's such an ordeal. (they made this change so they could keep trolls away. The trolls were bad so something needed to be done, but it ended up driving a lot of people away, because the commenting experience is now awful, imo.)

With blogger, once I subscribed, I used the same tool (gmail) on my computer and my mobile device (BB Storm), plus I could post a comment from mobile. Now with the ECHO software I cannot comment from mobile plus just keeping up on mobile is a worse chore than on my computer.

I've tried three different readers and two on mobile.

I like Reuters Mobile but it doesn't give you the article name when you are reviewing comments.
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Why is RSS so great ? How is it really any different than an e-mail client ?

Asked by williampeck in Blogs, RSS

Tags: Blogging, RSS, RSS Feeds, RSS readers

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