I was so frustated to see Facebook/Twitter using the fundamentals of RSS to their advantage whereas everybody should have started to use RSS for the greater good.
RSS isn't some panacea to the problem. A site needing visits for money is not going to put full content in their feeds. At best you'll get elided content and at worst you'll get only titles and links. You'll also get the same SEO practices where some old content has the date changed to show up as "new".
Most CMSes by default don't do a good job generating RSS either. Most of the time a feed is just a grab bag of posts on all topics. I don't know of any that understand inline hash tags for instance. A separate field for adding tags is just more work for an author. As a reader if I'm looking for blog posts on a topic I don't care about Grampa Moshe's goiter. Yet if I put a blog in a category in my reader software that's what I get.
In very specific circles with specific topics RSS can be really useful but outside that narrow range it's no better than the shit show we currently have.
You're kidding if you think RSS is the glory days. There are reasons why it has fallen out of favor. If it were up to me, I'd kill it and put it out of its misery.
Most CMSes by default don't do a good job generating RSS either. Most of the time a feed is just a grab bag of posts on all topics. I don't know of any that understand inline hash tags for instance. A separate field for adding tags is just more work for an author. As a reader if I'm looking for blog posts on a topic I don't care about Grampa Moshe's goiter. Yet if I put a blog in a category in my reader software that's what I get.
In very specific circles with specific topics RSS can be really useful but outside that narrow range it's no better than the shit show we currently have.