[exoro]

Those blogs "don't have it" or "don't advertise it"? Seeing that most blogs are Wordpress or another platform that has RSS baked in by default it seems rare to come across one without a feed, even if you have to dig for it a bit.

[norswap]

Often don't have it, my method this day is to copy the URL of the website to a feedreader.

The first few times it didn't pick up a feed, I would inspect the page source, and sure enough, no `link` tag in the head for the feed (nor references to "rss" or "atom" or "feed" anywhere in the page).

I don't know what stack they use, but I find this particularly common for company blogs.

[P3L]

That's true, I follow a lot of blogs that I get the RSS with trial and error, mostly typing /feed or /RSS, because they don't offer a straight link anywhere

[packetlost]

Yeah, idk what GP is referring to. I can't remember the last time I saw a blog that didn't have an RSS feed. Maybe some exceptions being Medium posts (lol) and corporate blogs where it's posted as part of a larger site, not just someone's personal blog.

[cxr]

Many people who have switched from batteries-included, purpose-built blogging stacks like WordPress to e.g. static site generators (or similar roll-your-own setups) don't have a feed by virtue of the fact that the folks publishing those sites haven't gone out of their way to write the feed template. This is not unlike any other subject where participation comes down to opting in versus opting out.

That isn't to say any claims that feeds are almost a thing of the past holds any water. There are almost certainly more feeds now than at any point before. The second derivative is probably a flat line, though, which is what I imagine is behind the perception of deathliness. Feed consumption, on the other hand, is almost certainly down—but only if you exclude podcasts.