Ask HN: Do you still use RSS? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by JohnFen » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 4:12 PM UTC

I use RSS heavily, on a daily basis.

Primarily, I use it to read the day's news from various sources. I also use it to follow podcasts.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by kgwxd » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 4:13 PM UTC

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

Occasionally checking back on things and reskimming is such a huge waste of time. It's well worth grabbing a good old desktop RSS reader just to fix that one problem.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by JohnFen » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 4:13 PM UTC

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.

I use TT-RSS heavily -- that's how I aggregate various news and information feeds into a single RSS feed that I read.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by JohnFen » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 4:15 PM UTC

sys_64738 wrote: post #15

I use RSS daily for all things. Those webpages without an RSS feed are ones I never visit as I don't want to change my habit of 15 years.

> Those webpages without an RSS feed

I'm with you there. If I'm only stopping by a website for a one-off thing, I don't care if it has an RSS feed or not. However, sites that don't are sites that I won't be checking in with on the regular.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by underyx » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 4:16 PM UTC

ink_13 wrote: post #52

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

Try The Old Reader: https://www.theoldreader.com/ It's 95% of what Google Reader used to be, your missing 5% may vary. (For me, my missing 5% is a decent mobile client, but I miss that a lot less than I expected)

I just realized after so many years that the reason I always failed to keep using any other RSS reader is that I miss the per-article popularity scores from Google Reader.

I used to flood myself with headlines there and read the ones with interesting titles or high popularity (I don't even remember what that was based on; number of stars by other Reader users?) Then I'd just mark all as read.

Reddit and HN have replaced this for me somewhat, the only issue is that I don't get to curate the source blogs anymore.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by JohnFen » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 4:16 PM UTC

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've had a very good experience with gReader on Android devices.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by djsumdog » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 4:24 PM UTC

bluegreyred wrote: post #43

djsumdog wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, I just click on them or run them in mpv. I've thought about writing a plugin for TTRss where you can give it a channel name and it will add the RSS feed, plus store the channel's icon instead of the YouTube icon, but I haven't gotten around to looking at that (or seeing if there's a plugin that already does some or all of that).

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by cagey » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 4:26 PM UTC

deanebarker wrote: post #7

Yep. Inoreader. I browse 300-400 items a day through it.

I'm also a Inoreader user. It's one of the few services I pay for (bottom tier). I can't imagine being without an RSS-based content-monitoring/-consumption system.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by 69er » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

bluegreyred wrote: post #43

djsumdog wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Subcribe to: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=USERNAME or https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNELI...

and enable plugin af_youtube_embed

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by dodgyb » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 4:32 PM UTC

gurustave wrote: post #47

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.

FeedBro user here too, it also runs well on Chrome. I have nearly 1k subscriptions and the tab consumes less than 2Mb. Highly recommended.