Checking even a few sites routinely for new content is a huge waste of life. You have to figure out if there is new content, then you have to remember where you left off and, assuming a site even makes that easy (most don't), while figuring it out, you have to avoid falling into a bottomless pit of click bait. I have 12 feeds in my reader; HN, a handful of YouTube channels and a handful of personal blogs. Some have posts every minute, some have posts every day, some have posts months apart. Of all these feeds, only 1 contains the actual content (Planet GNU), everything else is a link and maybe a small summary, and I'm perfectly fine with that, I just want the uniform process of notifications that RSS provides because the alternatives are all horrible.