



RSS reader development ramped up and the people who relied on RSS downgraded to these underinvested readers, sticking with them while their plucky developers worked their guts out to build up usable, reliable products that continued to deliver the a window into the web, not mutilated by the unaccountable, opaque algorithms of the social platforms. RSS was a revelation for blogging and online media we got our first RSS feed in 2001 and I have relied heavily on RSS feeds to write this site (and stay informed) for nearly two decades now in 2005, Google bet heavily on RSS with its Google Reader product, which quickly eclipsed every other reader, so that by the time they killed it in 2013, there wasn't anything sophisticated, robust and well-maintained to switch to.
