I looked through Common Crawl and found over 300,000 parseable RSS/Atom feeds, confirming that Web feeds are still a major part of the Open Web. But most aren’t high quality, and autodiscovery often points users at stale or abandoned feeds.
https://mnot.net/blog/2026/feed-survey
Mark Nottingham
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2026-05-11 02:10:40 UTC
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