Ask HN: Is RSS dead? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?

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Post by smabie » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 4:22 AM UTC

moltar wrote: post #86

I got this post on HN via RSS via Reeder app. Conclusion: not dead.

“I read this post on Mac OS 9. Conclusion: not dead”

Unless you’re using a pedantic and useless definition of dead (a bad faith interpretation, I would argue), your statement doesn’t make much sense.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?

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Post by jamesgeck0 » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 4:25 AM UTC

ksec wrote: post #113

Google Reader literally killed all Web and Clients side RSS development. It make sense it lives on the web rather than an App. And it was one of the best RSS Reader. I am not sure what RSS Reader people are using these days, but I have been using Feedly since Reader discontinued. And as long as they keep their free tier I dont see myself stop using them. I think most people who use RSS are nerds or geeks anyway. So i…

> I am not sure what RSS Reader people are using these days

Reeder is the best RSS application I've seen. I sync it with Feedly on macOS and iOS. Vienna RSS is another solid (open source!) option on mac, although the UI isn't as nice as Reeder.

Linux users have FeedReader, which seems pretty great.

I haven't found a client I love on Windows. There's a lot of abandoned applications that look and feel a few decades old.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?

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Post by Zebfross » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 4:34 AM UTC

I personally use RSS on my website as a way to automatically publish to various social media sites. It works great, and I don’t know what I would replace it with.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?

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Post by jasonboyd » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 5:03 AM UTC

If RSS is dead then I am reading this from the great beyond.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?

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Post by mc3 » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 5:27 AM UTC

I'd really prefer RSS instead of marketing emails I choose to opt in to. An email feels like a todo, a stressor! An RSS feed feels like a "to read at lesiure" stream.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?

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Post by Yhippa » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 6:02 AM UTC

dade_ wrote: post #84

Newsblur is my Internet's start page. We use MS Teams at work and I have noticed that coworkers have setup RSS subscription channels to follow businesses, etc. I use hidden RSS feeds on many websites (/feed on Wordpress for example), it is a shame they are not visible.

Thanks for mentioning this. I dug up my old NewsBlur account and it's pretty slick. I had a lot of issues with Feedly and other aggregators. I was pleasantly surprised to find that a lot of the sites I visit have RSS feeds still.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?

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Post by NicoJuicy » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 6:05 AM UTC

sdan wrote: post #137

reaperducer wrote: post #95

I think a lot of people think RSS is dead because they never see it promoted anywhere. Pretty much every web site has a row of social media icons, but hardly ever is there an RSS icon in the row, even if the web site supports it. Frankly, I don't think most people who run web sites even know that the framework/CMS/rolfburger they're using automatically publishes RSS feeds for them. Yesterday I stumbled across an app…

I think it’s Wordpress that enables /rss on a ton of websites. I’ve recently needed to get RSS feeds and a good number of times I can find it via /rss or view the source of the site and search for xml.

Or /feed /feed.xml /rss.xml

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?

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Post by NicoJuicy » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 6:08 AM UTC

Almost everyone probably already has a rss client at work. It's called Outlook.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?

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Post by nergal » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 6:12 AM UTC

I wrote a rss/atom reader just a few months ago. I use it every day. Fully open sourced and written in Golang.

https://github.com/Lallassu/gorss

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?

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Post by gumby » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 6:16 AM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #95

I think a lot of people think RSS is dead because they never see it promoted anywhere. Pretty much every web site has a row of social media icons, but hardly ever is there an RSS icon in the row, even if the web site supports it. Frankly, I don't think most people who run web sites even know that the framework/CMS/rolfburger they're using automatically publishes RSS feeds for them. Yesterday I stumbled across an app…

New York Times actually has a page listing all their feeds, and updates that page as they change sections. There’s a lot of overlap, of course, natural for a site of their size.