Following Youtube channels through RSS is a great quality-of-life improvement. I don’t expect this “feature” to last particularly long given where Google is taking the site, but it works for now.
Getting a feed for a channel
- go to the channel you want to follow
- inspect page source
- search for “RSS”
- copy the URL containing the channel ID
- add this to your feed reader
The consumption experience is better if you can get a feed reader that can display webpages. I use Thunderbird with uBlock, and this is a good enough way for me to follow Youtube.