It's already enough of a chore to sort the incoming email(s) for most of us. With Google Reader being what it is, along with being free and simple to use, I never did understand why anyone would want RSS content delivered to them via email.
Jennifer Van Grove
· 10 months ago
Hey Michael, it's not a service for you or I, but for someone who doesn't use a reader (which is most of the people I know outside the web/tech space) it's a convenient way to consume information.
Lindsay
· 10 months ago
I don't want RSS to Email to go into my email inbox, but I do want it to go into email enabled services that archive stuff for me, like Evernote. I used to use R|Mail and they went away, then I tried RSSFWD (though it hasn't been working for me for months now) and now it's going away. I finally resorted to setting up a FeedBurner feed with an email subscription for the RSS I want emails for and use that. It's not real-time (it's a daily summary) but better than nothing at all.
Michael Bailey
· 10 months ago
Hi Jennifer,
Perhaps you are right.
I would counter that with a statement along the lines of, if they don't know enough to use a reader, they've probably never heard of RSSFWD. Ya know?
Plus, if you read their last 10 Tweets or so, they were thinking about canning the service since last September/October anyhow.
True, it's sorry to see yet another free service fall by the wayside, but someone has to pay for these things. It won't surprise me if Twitter itself closes up shop.
Jennifer Van Grove
· 10 months ago
Michael, ok you win that point. Not only would they have never heard of RSSFWD, but the name would probably be lost on them completely.
Troy Malone
· 10 months ago
Regardless of whether the service meets your needs or not, it is a very bad way to announce such news. A detailed blog post with what you can do to transition to another service for instance would have been a bit more dignified.
While the Web 2.0 space has been celebrated as an environment where literally anyone can build a good app. without a large expenditure, this is the other side of that argument.
We have many more announcements like this coming and I hope that the next unfortunate companies handle it a bit better.
That having been said, attrition is a healthy thing and will help those companies that are making headway consolidate a stronger position which is good for everyone. Just look at Evernote's windfall over the past few days after Google's announcement!
Troy Malone Pelotonics
Domains
· 10 months ago
Even me! This is my first time of hearing about this service and curousity made me read the post. I have ever been using feedburner and happy with that
@ggroovin
· 10 months ago
Actually, it appears that www.OtherInbox.com (currently in beta) supports RSS to e-mail in their service.
arshad
· 10 months ago
i have never heard about it
John Engler
· 10 months ago
@ggroovin I'm an OtherInbox beta user, and I can confirm that OtherInbox definitely does this... I'm subscribed to a few RSS feeds with it, and those feeds show up in my inbox with all of my other email that I would rather get in my other inbox. Great service. Try to get a beta invite if you're looking for this functionality, or if you're looking for a way to make sure all of the email you currently get in your primary inbox doesn't get in your way anymore.
Timothy
· 10 months ago
Why not use Google Reader in the first place? It's a great service.
Christopher Fahey
· 10 months ago
The problem with the service was that it performed badly and was designed poorly. New news would arrive sometimes as much as 24 hours after the fact. Also, if I remember correctly, it would bundle many news items into longer emails, making the act of reading, marking read, saving, and forwarding messages etc, entirely useless.
Email clients and RSS readers are so similar that it's frustrating to have to have two applications. RSS-to-Email can still work if done correctly: Instantly moving news items from the moment they appear in a feed to a single email to the end user.
Nicholas Quixote
· 10 months ago
I used this. Just for the very few RSSI want to really make sure I see. Why can't all you free services keep chugging along. I'll be sorry to see you go?
r
· 10 months ago
"It seems like finding a free and reliable RSS to email service for end users that’s still in business is an impossible feat. Are they all dying off?" FAIL! -> http://www.xfruits.com
How about doing some research before posting?
Yan
· 10 months ago
What about feedmyinbox ?
Phil Hollows
· 10 months ago
The problem with "free" is that ultimately it's an untenable business model whenm eyeballs are hard to monetize, which is the case if your primary delivery vehicle is email. All the free services are dying bar Feedburner and FeedBlitz for lack of a business model and consequent lack of revenues to keep it going. Doing email and deliverability is hard to do well in volume.
The problem with FeedBurner is that they're not interested in email, and that post-Google acquisition that's likely to worsen, not improve. My company, FeedBlitz, goes from strength to strength, but we're improving our business model every day.
Revenues Matter.
If you find something delivers something valuable got you, you should be prepared to pay for it.
Which is why FeedBlitz is still here.
L Mohan Arun
· 10 months ago
The reason I use RSSFWD is because my Google Reader is overflowing with feeds and it is not easy to search for very old items that you recall you have read somewhere before. With RSSFWD those posts come in to my Gmail where I can search for them easily. So I am using RSSFWD and XFRUITS for now. I am also subscribed to FEEDSCRUB though I would prefer that they would let me just specify the keywords I want to block. I have a long list of blockable keywords like "Android" "Firefox" "Bollywood" "Dubai" "Python" "Blackberry" etc.
soelo
· 9 months ago
I had the exact same thought when I saw that they tweeted it but didn't put anything on their front page. I even asked them about it and they said "Because we might not close ;)"
Wow. I also read it on their wordpress blog and commented, but they have not approved it yet.
I have had success with notify.me, iNeZha.com and xfruits as well.
mike
· 8 months ago
Found another site that provides this kind of service www.rss2m.com.
EricFriedman
· 7 months ago
Anyone have a good alternative for RSS to Email functionality?
Randy Charles Morin
· 6 months ago
Last week, I restarted Rmail as Reblinks.com. It's a replacement for Rmail/SendMeRSS and something to consider also for abandoned RssFwd users. http://www.reblinks.com/
All Comments
Perhaps you are right.
I would counter that with a statement along the lines of, if they don't know enough to use a reader, they've probably never heard of RSSFWD. Ya know?
Plus, if you read their last 10 Tweets or so, they were thinking about canning the service since last September/October anyhow.
True, it's sorry to see yet another free service fall by the wayside, but someone has to pay for these things. It won't surprise me if Twitter itself closes up shop.
While the Web 2.0 space has been celebrated as an environment where literally anyone can build a good app. without a large expenditure, this is the other side of that argument.
We have many more announcements like this coming and I hope that the next unfortunate companies handle it a bit better.
That having been said, attrition is a healthy thing and will help those companies that are making headway consolidate a stronger position which is good for everyone. Just look at Evernote's windfall over the past few days after Google's announcement!
Troy Malone
Pelotonics
Email clients and RSS readers are so similar that it's frustrating to have to have two applications. RSS-to-Email can still work if done correctly: Instantly moving news items from the moment they appear in a feed to a single email to the end user.
FAIL!
-> http://www.xfruits.com
How about doing some research before posting?
The problem with FeedBurner is that they're not interested in email, and that post-Google acquisition that's likely to worsen, not improve. My company, FeedBlitz, goes from strength to strength, but we're improving our business model every day.
Revenues Matter.
If you find something delivers something valuable got you, you should be prepared to pay for it.
Which is why FeedBlitz is still here.
Wow. I also read it on their wordpress blog and commented, but they have not approved it yet.
I have had success with notify.me, iNeZha.com and xfruits as well.
http://www.reblinks.com/