Daily since Google Reader shut down, via self-hosted commafeed (https://github.com/Athou/commafeed).
Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
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Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#92As far as side projects go:
I was a 100%-RSS-news guy a few years ago, but found myself more and more looking at twitter for a certain kind of news content (mostly rants about how bad agile has become). But I kind of hated needing to use two apps to get my daily content fix. Strangely Twitter didnt provide an RSS feed for the raw timeline feed. So I build myself an Twitter2RSS thingie.
Go / Postgress / Heroku For RSS generation: https://github.com/gorilla/feeds (looks stale now)
Was a great learning experience as I was teaching myself Go back then. Dont use it much these days anymore, but its still working, which I find incredible, since I basically havent touched the thing for over 6 years!
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#93Absolutely! 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.
I also use FreshRSS + Reeder on my phone (and that is my primary I also self-host Nitter (Twitter front-end), Bibliogram (Instagram front-end), and Teddit (Reddit front-end). Each of these server applications allow me to subscribe to social media feeds without having accounts. Additionally, I self-host RSSHub for a ton of other integrations, but mostly Youtube subscriptions. Using RSSHub for Youtube subscriptions is…
Thank you for this - you spurred me on to have another look in to self hosting YouTube and Reddit. I am now running libreddit (I preferred it slightly to teddit) & Invidious. Both are running on my poor Pi 4 alongside 11 other containers! It’s still running perfectly!
Did you know, Invidious has an RSS feed for your subscriptions? So not only do you not need a YouTube account but you also get private, ad-free viewing alongside that feed!
My biggest complaint about teddit and libreddit is lack of an account. All subscriptions are stored in cookies, so it’s a pain if I want to browse the same content on my phone and desktop. I am actually considering a bit of a stupid simple/quick hack where I could visit a site on my network which would redirect to the URL that restores your subscriptions/settings cookie.
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#94I use RSS extensively and in multiple ways. I rely on it a lot. I love it and need it in my life. The number of websites that no longer support RSS (or try not to coughyoutubecough) is a crime against the internet IMO.
* I near-exclusively access my text-based news via RSS, mostly via thunderbird, using many many RSS feeds gathered over years. I got here from an RSS feed.
* I run scripts which monitor a few web pages and give me RSS output, so that I can see new posts on these pages mixed in with my news.
* I use an RSS reader on my phone to notify me of certain events, and I have an RSS monitor widget for those events in my task bar on my desktop.
* For work, I scrape something on the order of ~200K RSS feeds and ~20mil feed items every ~couple of days.
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#95As far as side projects go: I was a 100%-RSS-news guy a few years ago, but found myself more and more looking at twitter for a certain kind of news content (mostly rants about how bad agile has become). But I kind of hated needing to use two apps to get my daily content fix. Strangely Twitter didnt provide an RSS feed for the raw timeline feed. So I build myself an Twitter2RSS thingie. https://twissr.herokuapp.com/ G…
Any way to get Twissr to subscribe to a users twitter list?
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also use FreshRSS + Reeder on my phone (and that is my primary I also self-host Nitter (Twitter front-end), Bibliogram (Instagram front-end), and Teddit (Reddit front-end). Each of these server applications allow me to subscribe to social media feeds without having accounts. Additionally, I self-host RSSHub for a ton of other integrations, but mostly Youtube subscriptions. Using RSSHub for Youtube subscriptions is…
Thank you for this - you spurred me on to have another look in to self hosting YouTube and Reddit. I am now running libreddit (I preferred it slightly to teddit) & Invidious. Both are running on my poor Pi 4 alongside 11 other containers! It’s still running perfectly! Did you know, Invidious has an RSS feed for your subscriptions? So not only do you not need a YouTube account but you also get private, ad-free viewing…
> Did you know, Invidious has an RSS feed for your subscriptions?
I did not know that! For a Youtube front-end I use Cloudtube[1] and NewLeaf[2] (NewLeaf is a drop-in replacement for Invidious). I'll have to see if NewLeaf supports RSS feeds like Invidious because then I could remove RSSHub from my cluster. Thanks for the tip!
> All subscriptions are stored in cookies, so it’s a pain if I want to browse the same content on my phone and desktop.
Wouldn't using an RSS feed server like FreshRSS mitigate this cross-device problem? I.E. you mark something as read on one device it will sync between devices. I ask because initially I was confused about your description because I don't have the same issue but then after I used my Big Brain® I realized FreshRSS solves this problem for me.
EDIT: Silly me, I guess I requested RSS feeds feature in NewLeaf already[3] last year
[1] https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/cloudtube
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#97Found this post thanks to https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss . There are two kinds of web sites. Those I read through RSS or those I don't read.
I've just tried this app on my Mojave MacBook and it's amazing. So pleased with it. My biggest requirement was an app as simple as an RSS reader must be open source and that it's got a macOS binary. This one fulfills both and it 's got a quite nice UI too. So far I've been using NewsFire, not knowing the alternatives.
Re: Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
#98Absolutely! 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.
> It's also the main way I use HN - I probably click into more HN threads than news articles these days. Seconded. My personal setup is a tt-rss instance set up on my personal server, with a Fever plugin, which allows me to use it with other readers—currently ReadKit on my Mac, and Reeder on iOS. I very rarely access my tt-rss webpage directly; it's just there to provide centralized-under-my-control syncing of the fe…
Likewise! I also have some custom code which downloads hackernews links and run readability to extract content. Doesn’t work 100% of the times but it’s good enough for me. :)
https://github.com/nova77/hackernews_rss