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by pavel_lishin 2817 days ago
> 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.