Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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Post by e19293001 » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:38 AM UTC

Although I use RSS everyday and every hour, I hate RSS because it is the reason why I am my procrastinating.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

#42

Post by euyyn » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:45 AM UTC

People that still use it will think "of course!" and tell you so. People that don't use it anymore will think "probably not, but maybe; I wouldn't know myself" and thus be silent. So you have a high prior chance of getting a ton of "yes" answers even if the real answer is "no".

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

#43

Post by nej » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:59 AM UTC

insin wrote: post #39

I stopped using RSS altogether when Google killed Reader.

Why though? There are alternatives.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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Post by endijs » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 8:01 AM UTC

I still use RSS for about 250 blogs/sites (tracked by Feedly). That's no near to what it was in times of Google Reader. Some sites stopped providing RSS. For some there was just too much content and it was a pain to filter out everything. I have settled down on those two approaches:

1) If blog/site generates content rare and provides RSS, I use Feedly to track it.

2) If blog/sites generates a lot of content I expect that someone in my Twitter feed will post link to really good article.

So yeah - RSS is still valuable.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

#45

Post by olliedev » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 8:03 AM UTC

afloatboat wrote: post #34

I fear the day that RSS will become so unpopular that developers won't support it anymore. RSS is the basis of my information aggregation and is a necessity for me. It allows me to read news at my own pace and to get all the news with a backlog so that I'm sure I don't miss anything. RSS allows me to go directly to an article without having to navigate through the website. Some websites (TheVerge comes to mind) have…

Hey, you should check this out for sites that don't give you entire articles in RSS feeds:

http://fulltextrssfeed.com/

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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Post by jansc » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 8:05 AM UTC

nej wrote: post #43

insin wrote: post #39

I stopped using RSS altogether when Google killed Reader.

Why though? There are alternatives.

I went from Google Reader to Feedly, and I'm quite happy.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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Post by unimpressive » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 8:07 AM UTC

I just added RSS to my blog[0] after this thread reminded me, thanks. For anybody else who runs Jekyll it's about five minutes of work and well worth supporting the tech.[1]

[0]: http://softholmsyndrome.com/feed.xml

[1]: http://joelglovier.com/writing/rss-for-jekyll/

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

#48

Post by unimpressive » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 8:22 AM UTC

insin wrote: post #39

I stopped using RSS altogether when Google killed Reader.

If you're worried about being burned again, there's two good self hosted RSS readers out there:

Tiny Tiny RSS: https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/explore

SelfOSS: http://selfoss.aditu.de/

Both include mobile apps and are open source with web based interfaces and JSON based API's to let you implement your own clients.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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Post by mariobyn » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 8:30 AM UTC

From my opinion RSS it's a must for each content site. We use RSS at http://grobyk.com for news aggregation in this way we deliver to teams the best articles.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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Post by mariobyn » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 8:30 AM UTC

From my opinion RSS it's a must for each content site. We use RSS at http://grobyk.com for news aggregation in this way we deliver to teams the best articles.