Ask HN: Do You Use RSS? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

#31

Post by agentultra » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:46 PM UTC

I use RSS still.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

#32

Post by jumperabg » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:46 PM UTC

I didn't use RSS for a year but started again aroudn 1-2 months since someone posted an article about the Fluent Reader RSS reader.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

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Post by yipeedipee » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:47 PM UTC

I have been using https://www.ustart.org/ as my homepage ever since Google killed iGoogle to gather my feeds and other things like Twitter searches. I love RSS.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

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Post by trelane » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:47 PM UTC

gerikson wrote: post #13

Yes. I pay for Feedly. I use RSS (well, Atom) in my blogs.

I do also. RSS is a Free and open standard, something this world is dearly in need of more of.

I use Liferea on non mobile.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

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Post by troyforster » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:49 PM UTC

I would not have found this post otherwise!

I have https://inoreader.com bookmarked on all my devices allowing me to keep abreast of several hundred feeds throughout the day. It's great that it supports the same keyboard shortcuts as Google Reader (RIP).

I always add RSS feeds to websites and most web applications (for non-proprietary and public info only).

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

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Post by simmons » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:49 PM UTC

Sure, I've been using RSS (or Atom) for... probably around 18 years or so. In that time, I've moved from Thunderbird to Liferea to Google Reader to Newsblur. I subscribe to many feeds related to my work, but also various Google Alerts and general news sources. I don't do much publishing to RSS, except for making sure that my (currently very neglected) blog has RSS and Atom feeds available.

I can't think of any burning pain points, off hand.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

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Post by kgwxd » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:50 PM UTC

It's the only way. Even a feed that's just links and no content saves tons of time because you never have to re-skim over headlines you've already chosen to read or skip.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

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Post by dj_mc_merlin » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:50 PM UTC

This is like when people go on a game X's subreddit and ask "Should I buy X?".. You're on HN my friend, it's like asking if they like life extension medicine or pg's essays.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

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Post by bla3 » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:50 PM UTC

I used to use it long ago. It worked too well for me: every morning I had a very long list of very interesting posts I could read. For a while I tried to read them all. That was very interesting, but it also needed a lot of time. Eventually it felt like yet another inbox to keep track of, and i stopped using it. I don't really miss it.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

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Post by thirdplace_ » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:51 PM UTC

I wrote a tool that finds rss feeds for you:

https://discovery.thirdplace.no/?q=https://www.youtube.com/w...

It was a personal pain point for me.