RSS + scrapers have been and always will be the backbone of information exchange online.
Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
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Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#62I keep up with a few Patreon podcasts through Feedly. I don't have much good say about it. Sometimes the audio cuts off after about 15 minutes of play while inside my pocket. It keeps the timestamp, though! Id love a recommendation of an android app that does not do that
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#63Yes, I do. Opened this link right from my rss reader.
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#64Yes, I do. I opened this link right from my RSS reader.
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#65I found this post because it showed up in a TUI Microsub[0] client that talks to a Microsub server[1] which is subscribed to one of the HN-to-RSS service's front page feed.
I use my RSS/feed reader pretty extensively as a central hub to collect "news" from a variety of sources, including from closed platforms such as YouTube via their semi-hidden RSS feed support. I like having a central place where things that may be of interest to me show up without me having to discover them actively or having to rely e.g. on the YouTube subscription interface.
I personally really like the concept of Microsub, because it allows you to have a single designated server takes care of fetching the feeds, normalizing the content and synchronizing state (e.g. read status, subscriptions, channel/folder organization) and you can then access that data from any client that supports the protocol. I specifically like Microsub, as opposed to some of the other "synchronization protocols" that are more or less supported by some services because it is an open protocol independent from any specific platform/implementation.
[0]: https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec [1]: https://github.com/aaronpk/aperture
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#66Every day, thanks to https://newsblur.com
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#67WordPress instances include RSS by default. I'd say that RSS is stronger than ever in terms of content, but quite poor in terms of ways to parse that information as there's evidently not much money to be made from RSS. I'll take RSS any day over algorithmic echo chambers and non-promoted posts only being seen by a fraction of an account's followers/subscribers.
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#68I use NetNewsWire to subscribe to blogs, YT channels, subreddits, newspapers, podcasts... basically anything I follow that has an RSS channel (if it doesn't, I'm almost surely not going to follow it).
I really like the Ars Technica model, where they have short snippets available in the public RSS feeds, but also provide feeds with full articles for paying subscribers. I don't like to leave the comfort of my reader for the discomfort of a web browser (they're all terrible).
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#69Yes. Dockerized Miniflux instance, >100 feeds. Wouldn't miss it for the world. I use it as PWA on both desktop and mobile. No complaints.
Dockerized Miniflux as well. Light on resources, quick, plenty of features without being bloated, and the fetching of article content works with the default selectors for most sites.
I use Miniflutt on Android instead of the PWA mainly for the mark-as-read on scroll functionality (which I contributed because it's a must-have feature for me). About the only feature I find missing is a global regex blocklist which I may put in a PR for as well.
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#70I use RSS quite a lot at this point.
I use it to read HN and various blogs & Ars Technica, and to sync my read/unread status between my phone, ipad, and computer (I use NetNewsWire and Feedbin).
I publish a blog that has an RSS feed, although very few RSS subscribers.
I use a service to convert my blog's RSS feed to a daily newsletter for subscribers (who have no idea there is RSS involved). I have around 100x as many newsletter subscribers as RSS subscribers.
I use a different service to automatically link new blog posts on Twitter & LinkedIn whenever they appear on my blog's RSS feed.