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Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

#73
I use NewsBlur and subscribe to a bunch of RSS feeds, as well as using Google Apps scripts to modify some. Right now, however, there's a problem with setMimeType (it's in the issue tracker) and that broke two of my scripts.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

#74
I use them alot, in the past I've used RSS2email where emails are managed via Emacs/notmuch-emacs/org-mode and behind the scene autorefiled via MailDrop, I quit this method simply because to many feeds to make click only publish a title not the entire article so I need anyway something webbic...

I've tried elfeed but it's a bit slow and sometimes it's DB go TFU so I end up with Miniflux, just because it's simple and quick enough to be setup and on my homeserver I can see the same feeds on desktop, laptop etc.

I do not use them much more than news, for software I only use them for security advisors and new releases of some projects I track, I've planned an RSS-centric personal website but it's a skeleton essentially empty so far and it's veeeery low priority so...

My most important pain point is publishers who not put full posts inside RSS.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

#76
Definitely. RSSGuard. It's one of the few offline and independent (read: not a web application) RSS Readers on Windows. My only problem with it is how RAM-heavy an application it is, and that it can get pretty bogged down when downloading feeds. But beggars can't be choosers.

https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

#77
I have 80 feeds in QuiteRSS with 659 unread posts right now. These feeds bring in over 1,000 posts per day.

Some are news and blogs but also sub-Reddits, Google News searches, and Kijiji searches. Until a couple of months ago I had some eBay searches but eBay killed their RSS feeds. I don't use it for YouTube but they do support RSS.

Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

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I have 80 feeds in QuiteRSS with 659 unread posts right now. These feeds bring in over 1,000 posts per day. Some are news and blogs but also sub-Reddits, Google News searches, and Kijiji searches. Until a couple of months ago I had some eBay searches but eBay killed their RSS feeds. I don't use it for YouTube but they do support RSS.

Similarly use RSS for Reddits and a few Twitter users and Youtube channels. 477 feeds using Newsblur. Including Hnapp for my Hackernews RSS feed.

The bulk of them are feeds with infrequent posts - software release updates and that sort of thing. I try and be pretty ruthless with culling anything with a high noise to signal ratio of posts that interest me.

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