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Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

#44
I have a script that cURL's each line from "feeds.txt" every 3 minutes, and dumps the new links in "new.txt".

Then there's a button on my dashboard that opens all of those items in new tabs at once (sometimes a dozen or more!), and also moves them to "seen.txt", which is ignored when fetching new items.

It's as simple as it sounds. I created it when Google Reader died, and has served my needs perfectly so far.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

#45
Yes. It really is the only way to keep up with blogs that update intermittently. Stuff like Twitter and Facebook leave you at the mercy of an algorithmic sort or just happenings to stumble upon it in a river of other content.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

#47
Absolutely! It's the only way I get my news. I have FreshRSS self-hosted on a Pi with an nginx reverse proxy front end. I either access it from the FreshRSS web UI or from Reeder on my phone.

It's also the main way I use HN - I probably click into more HN threads than news articles these days.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

#49

I use inoreader, but don't use rss as heavily as I did with Google Reader. https://www.inoreader.com/

I second inoreader. Even though RSS is dying they have native Twitter support, email feeds and they also have the ability to turn an html page into a feed which all work great, so I'm able to turn most public streams of data into a news feed.
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