RSS readers allow you to collect the articles of specific sources in one app, making it a lot easier to find the content you’re interested in without crawling through a lot of noise. RSS (which may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or one of several other possibilities — nobody seems sure) has been around a while, having been first developed in 1999, although it wasn’t more widely adopted until a few years later.

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      9 months ago

      Thanks for the summary! More articles should be concise and more “complete” (e.g. mentioning alternatives like NetNewsWire or Vivaldi’s integrated RSS reader, as mentioned in other comments here).

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        9 months ago

        Unfortunately, so many news sites (and see cooking recipe sites as an example) bloat their articles so they can appear more frequently in search results :(

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      9 months ago

      Inoreader and gReader for Android, amazing! I switched when Good Reader died, haven’t looked back, works amazing even in the free plan.