Using the Best Tool/s for the Job: RSS Feeds and RSS Readers
RSS feeds aren't a new thing or a particularly novel thing (there's plenty of prior art, the key concepts are very simple, like the second "S" in "RSS"). But they're still really useful, even after all those decades. The "mainstream", however, which includes GAFAM and satellites like Mozilla and Novell, tried to get people away from RSS feeds. They promoted "webapps" and social control media instead. Some sites saw usage of RSS decreasing and even altogether pulled support for it. We saw one example of the latter just earlier this week. Several times per month we see sites whose RSS feed/s suddenly breaks; some turn into slopfarms, but that's another matter.
Here in Techrights we developed 3 pieces of software to read and manage RSS feeds. We developed these for our own use, though nothing prevents others from using the same (it's AGPLv3-licensed and in Git). My personal preference is converting new articles in news sites into plain text such that they can be read in a text editor without any images visible, without ads, without bloat etc. Only a few moments ago, as I had a tab open with some "modern" site, the machine became barely responsive because that tab was using up all the RAM (I came back from the kitchen with some coffee and the mouse pointer barely moved). Typically it's the same sites that do this over and over again (reproducible on other machines with other operating systems). It's hard to envision enduring that sort of thing on a daily basis. Who's responsible for such awful design? We've already learned the hard way to never open Business Insider for example - it would very quickly use up all the RAM. On my wife's computer it can take about an hour to recover from this sort of thing!
Based on what I've been told by friends, those sorts of things aren't so uncommon on the "modern" Web. It's not clear if some of this chaos is even done deliberately, but that "modern" Web browsers participate with sites in suffocating PCs says a lot about what "modern" came to mean.
Use RSS feeds. Reject those "modern" Web things. █