Good to hear about RSS, I’ve been using it since 2006 or thereabout as a landing page to put together my news sources and basic info I want every day (and also to follow my online comics). I was really annoyed when Netvibes closed recently, as contrary to what is there here I don’t find migrating from a reader to another trivial; finding one that is actually privacy oriented and not asking you to pay for basic functionalities is tricky, and then most of them don’t support migration so you have to rebuild your index. And then I saw over the years a reduction of the proportion of websites that support RSS; now I feel that most don’t, at least the one I follow. And then there is the volume - as RSS push you all content from a publisher, anything that is a bit verbose (think hackernews or slashdot) will cause a deluge. Not mentioning republishing of articles which will cause one you’ve seen already being pushed again in your feed (usual with mainstream newspapers). All in all not an excellent solution I am afraid, but it’s better than the alternatives.

I’ll do another post tomorrow from my laptop with the workarounds I found to blunt the edges of some of these.