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Contrary to the recurring claim that RSS and Atom are dead, most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds, even in 2026. Every time I publish a new post, I can see a good number of visitors arriving from feed readers. From the referrer data in my web server logs (which is not completely reliable but still offers some insight), the three largest sources of traffic to my website are web feeds, newsletters and search engines, in that order.

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[โ€“] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Why did they switch?

If they already have RSS and see traffic from it, I'm surprised they replace instead of introducing an alternative.

[โ€“] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

It wasn't a switch per se. The same people that used to get the RSS feeds continue to get them, but as atom.

All subscribers may see more content for this feed in their reader, but they won't have to change anything on their end, in order to continue getting the feed.