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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by skinnyasianboi »

modernerd wrote: post #24

Yes, I consume: 1. Twitter via Twitter lists using Feedbin: https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-... 2. Email newsletters via RSS (also thanks to Feedbin): https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl... 3. HN via hnrss.org[†] 4. Reddit via subreddit RSS. (Just add .rss after the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang.rss ) 5. A small selection of hand-curated blogs and frie…

Thanks for the hnrss.org examples!

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by bluegreyred »

djsumdog wrote: post #32
stanski wrote: post #28

Just going to plug Tiny Tiny RSS here since no one else has mentioned it: https://tt-rss.org/ It's a PHP-based server-side reader with lots of customizations and great Android support.

Yep, I love TinyRSS. I use it for webcomics, blogs, even YouTube so I don't have to use their shitty web interface. Here are some dockerfiles I made: https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/TTRSS https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/TTRSS...

Have you found a way to subscribe to youtube channels and view the video embedded insite ttrss? The official youtube feeds appear to be empty or just contain a URL to the video.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by fxj »

dilap wrote: post #14

Tragically, no. After Google killed Reader, I (amazingly) couldn't find another client that didn't have some fatal flaw that didn't make it not worth the bother. I now use the dumb, low-tech solution of having a few folders of bookmarks of sites in various categories, which I'll occasionally check using "Open in Tabs". Lamentable

I use inoreader.com and don't miss google reader. There is a free version with 150 subscriptions and you can search your feeds. Also there are apps for android and ios.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by autogenerated »

modernerd wrote: post #24

Yes, I consume: 1. Twitter via Twitter lists using Feedbin: https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-... 2. Email newsletters via RSS (also thanks to Feedbin): https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl... 3. HN via hnrss.org[†] 4. Reddit via subreddit RSS. (Just add .rss after the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang.rss ) 5. A small selection of hand-curated blogs and frie…

re: subscribing to the HN firehose on Feedbin. Has anyone else noticed that Feedbin does not seem to handle that well? Right now it says 526 unread items, whereas it in fact should rather be a few thousand items. Is there some lossy aspect to subscriptions on Feedbin, like upper limit of number of items?

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by irongeek »

Absolutely, saw this post via Hacker News feed. I consume Reuters and BBC news for general news and follow other blogs via feeds. Feeds are still the best and fastest way to easily stay informed.

For the general news I peruse the headlines and read the things that interest me. I have had a TinyTinyRSS installation running since 2012, before that I used GoogleReader and I think it was called Bloglines.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by gurustave »

Indeed! I use the FeedBro plugin for Firefox, with feeds for my various webcomics, a couple of blogs, a couple of news sites (including HN), a Forum, a couple smaller subreddits, and more recently my favorite YouTubers since Google can't get it together when it comes to notifications of new uploads by creators.

I also use it at work to get notifications of when our Jenkins Builds/Jobs fail.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by _b8r0 »

Yes. I use RSS-Bridge and Huginn to automate the mixing of RSS feeds into deduplicated feeds, then put that into wallabag which regenerates an RSS feed with excerpts. It sounds a bit bass ackward, but:

1. Huginn sends me and my partner an email every day about new properties in areas we would like to live so we can better understand the market.

2. Huginn also feeds my social media posting schedule by pulling out content from Reddit and some other places, filtering and deduping. The next step is to add scoring thresholds based on votes at source.

3. I use an RSS notifier to pick up Regulatory News Service (RNS) posts from any stocks I follow.

4. I generate periodic subject-specific summaries of news using Huginn for topics from Infosec to commoddities markets and sports.

Once I have the scoring system set up for the social media feed I'm going to look at integrating threat intel data into the same model using scoring to provide thresholds for digest vs immediate notification.

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