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by Apreche 1457 days ago
Yes. When Google Reader died I just moved to other apps. I’ve tried a few over the years. Feedly, Inoreader, etc. Also, podcasting still uses RSS. Every podcast app uses it directly, or more often these days, indirectly. iTunes and Spotify podcasts databases are still originally populated from RSS feeds.

As a developer, I mostly use Django, so I use the included syndication framework. The major pain point in that library is that adding additional tags that it doesn’t already support, especially if they are complex, is a pain in the ass. of course, you only have to do it once and then you can re-use your subclass in other projects. It’s still not great. Ideally it would support a very wide range of popular tags out of the box, i.e.: the podcast ones.