: I find them very useful. We all associate with well-known images or icons and if I'm browsing a site and want to know if it has a feed I might like to subscribe to, the little orange

I find them very useful. We all associate with well-known images or icons and if I'm browsing a site and want to know if it has a feed I might like to subscribe to, the little orange button stands out.

From there, my workflow is this: I'll right-click and get the feed link. (If not, like your news site example, it'll take me to a page full of RSS links). I paste that feed link into my aggregator, which is a separate app, not a plug-in.

The alternative is to paste the site URL into the aggregator and get the feed(s) that way. The former is my preferred method. If the site doesn't have a button (or an RSS link), I won't go to my aggregator and paste the URL in just to see if there any feeds available, because convention dictates there's usually a button there.

There has to be either a link or a button for me. Because my aggregator is a separate application, I'd otherwise have to paste in a site URL to see if it has a feed. So whilst it's nothing more than a link with an image it's the inherent association with RSS that makes it useful.

For me it's just like any social media button - instant recognition.

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