I think most people don't see the value in RSS feeds because they are used to the business of forums and social networks - where you don't need (or have the capability to) process _all_ the information.
RSS feeds are perfectly suitable for stuff like blogs, podcasts, webcomics, etc.pp. - not for platforms where a new item pops up every few seconds.
For podcasts people use a separate app like PodcastAddict or iTunes - for webcomics and blogs the author(s) usually also have twitter to announce a new item or an entirely separate platform like DeviantArt or WebToons.
So RSS is indeed not required to keep track of new submissions. I actually have a colleague who isn't using RSS feeds and instead keeps bookmarks and checks each page individually (given he only keeps track of maybe ~30 pages).
In conclusion - I think they don't see a value in RSS feeds because the existing options they're using already fulfill their needs.
> RSS feeds are perfectly suitable for stuff like blogs, podcasts, webcomics, etc.pp. - not for platforms where a new item pops up every few seconds.
I definitely agree; a noisy channel is bad for RSS.
> So RSS is indeed not required to keep track of new submissions.
Disagree hard here. I have a twitter account, but while it's not a waterhose, I would 100% miss new comic post announcements - assuming that an author's twitter account only announced new comics, and didn't just tweet other things.
Comics are the perfect use case for an RSS feed: they've mostly got a stable and slow publishing schedule, and not time-sensitive. I can ignore that folder in my reader for weeks, and then go back and catch up.
Doing that manually by clicking bookmarks seems like insanity to me, now.
RSS feeds are perfectly suitable for stuff like blogs, podcasts, webcomics, etc.pp. - not for platforms where a new item pops up every few seconds.
For podcasts people use a separate app like PodcastAddict or iTunes - for webcomics and blogs the author(s) usually also have twitter to announce a new item or an entirely separate platform like DeviantArt or WebToons.
So RSS is indeed not required to keep track of new submissions. I actually have a colleague who isn't using RSS feeds and instead keeps bookmarks and checks each page individually (given he only keeps track of maybe ~30 pages).
In conclusion - I think they don't see a value in RSS feeds because the existing options they're using already fulfill their needs.