Even better, for a few months the browsers themselves would highlight RSS feeds and allow you subscribe right in the browser. It was too good to last.
RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself. If 2 million people subscribe to your feed and try to update it once an hour, that is 48 million requests a day just for RSS.
What does work well (and how things have evolved) is to have a service that polls RSS on behalf of its users. This was the beauty of Google Reader but plenty of replacements exist.
RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself. If 2 million people subscribe to your feed and try to update it once an hour, that is 48 million requests a day just for RSS.
What does work well (and how things have evolved) is to have a service that polls RSS on behalf of its users. This was the beauty of Google Reader but plenty of replacements exist.