The year’s almost over, so we’re going over our annual checklists to make sure we’ve provided a full year’s worth of internet. Still undone: reminding you about how great RSS is.

For those unacquainted, the acronym stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it makes staying up to date with DCist and other sites much easier. You simply plug our feed URL into your favorite RSS application and it’ll periodically check for new entries, saving you from constantly hitting your browser’s refresh button in a desperate bid to avoid doing your job.

You can use a downloadable feed reader — Vienna and GreatNews are two good, free readers for OS X and Windows, respectively — or you can use a web-based reader. We’ve even made the latter option extra-easy for you: just use the Subscribe dropdown in our sidebar to start reading DCist through one of the many popular, free online readers.

RSS pros who aren’t using our feed may want to check it out again, too: we’ve recently taken steps to make our feed update faster. So if you decided to avoid DCist’s RSS because visiting the website got you timelier content, you should try giving our full-text(!) feed another shot.