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RSS is a strange choice in 2025. As a search engine they are in the position to extract things from web pages themselves. They already need this capability in order to properly rank the page.
treetalker
For one, I welcome RSS (back) and say the more, the better. I much prefer to pull specific types of information at my own set intervals when I need them, instead of either having undifferentiated information pushed on me continuously like a blast from a fire hose, or having to reach out to manually check and filter many individual sources. The idea is to schedule my receipt and processing of the information, and then refine the stream itself as well as the intervals I use to view it and the total amount of time I spend on it.

I'm currently on the hunt for an RSS reader that has good filtering and sorting functionality, so I can (for instance) pull several feeds from only certain sources, but not see any posts/articles about terms A or B, yet see and sort any posts with term C by time, followed by either posts from source 1 with terms C and D, or posts from source 2 with terms E or F but not G, which would be sorted by relevance.

I know that's a complicated and probably poorly written explanation; but I'm imagining something like Apple Mail Rules for RSS.

charcircuit OP
I think Kagi's target audience is people who want to see news, and not people who want a RSS reader for news. The average person does not care how news gets to them. The fact that it uses RSS is a technical detail they should not have to worry about. Kagi should not be artificially restricting themselves to RSS feed when there is news that exists outside the RSS ecosystem which they should consider including.
Apocryphon
Kagi's eventual target audience might be the average person, but right now its customers are almost certainly the type of people who mourned the shuttering of Google Reader.
ktosobcy
Why? I do use it and can't imagine following anything without it... And I keep hoping that it will come back and replace absolutely terrible schizophrenic feeds from meta/x/etc
charcircuit OP
>Why?

Because not every site has a RSS feed. For example when Claude Sonnet 4.5 released it would make sense to have that, but there is no RSS feed for Anthropic. Being compatible with the entire web instead of just a subset of it is useful.

ktosobcy
Well... thanks to walled-garden policy from google whole web decided to erect walls instead of providing neat RSS. Though all websites I care about have RSS and if some doesn't I contact the admin and they add it…
swiftcoder
I don't know of any major publisher that doesn't maintain RSS feeds, and this is mostly syndicating major publishers, so I'm not sure it makes any difference
anonymousd3vil
I use RSS to get my information and I've built my own reader https://rahuldshetty.github.io/reader-project/ for it. It helps me stay upto date with my various news feed and sites at one place. I don't have to search for things in search engine all the time for a piece of news.

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