RSS has been promoted as the hands off method for subscribing to all feeds. It's a once only process and thereafter you don't need to do anyhting to keep it functioning. RSS subscription has been advocated for the last few years with the knowledge that it will become part of the status quo very quickly.

But there's a hold-up. People are not subscribing through RSS as much as presumed. The reason given is that it is too complex to set up. Many have tried to simplify the process and give good e...
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For the initiated it almost seems intuitive and a funny question t ask. For the vast majority of new users, subscribing to an RSS feed is confusing,frustrating and difficult to understand. 

It really is a round about process and poorly designed. Questions from a potential subscriber usually hit in two waves. "What is this RSS? "and "when I click the RSS button I get redirected back to the page" or "I can see a lot of unformatted text."

The process is not about to change in the immediate future ...
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