For a brief moment, I thought this was related to https://OrbStack.dev
Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds
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Re: Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds
#32For a brief moment, I thought this was related to https://OrbStack.dev
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Re: Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds
#33Nice! I was thinking about the same kind of tool a while back, and developed a community-based curated feed reader with full-text search. It's not public yet (sign ups are behind an invitation code), but search works for guests: https://minifeed.net/global
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Re: Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds
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sometimes I stumble into stuff I’m sure I’ve already read something about in an article but if I didn’t bookmarked or made a note of it it’s very hard to find again (miniflux flushes content after a certain age)
Ah, I see, thanks for the explanation! I'm asking because I'm working on a similar project, which allows to both search and save blog posts permanently.
Speaking for me personally, I've always felt "search my history" should be implemented in the browser, not as an external tool. "Search and save blog posts" seems like a subset of the real problem.
Re: Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds
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No, I mean: "Google" moment as in what Google originally was. Let me rephrase in edit my original comment to "Google Search" moment. Basically, when Google came on the scene in 1997, it blew away Yahoo Directory. Do I have my dates right? Hahaha :)
RSS if anything is in decline, rather than its ascent, because of the fact that in many ways it offers access to content in a way that diminishes ad views. It's not impossible that it could come back from this state, and indeed, outside of this issue, there's nothing wrong with it as a system, and podcasts make heavy use of it. But it's worth being aware of this headwind.
rss is the advertising.
It allows me to conveniently keep track of tens of thousands of websites.
If you don't have a feed, no problem. Ill just read something else.
With few exceptions I can't be bothered to keep looking at a web page hoping something new has happened.
Re: Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds
#36Great to it’s hosted on a free software forge too not locking in contributions!
Not sure I always agree that feeds should have the full post tho. This not only (obviously) bloats the size of the feed, but there are valid reasons to want to drive users to your site--especially if you have demos or you write about code & have your code blocks syntax highlighted (statically, never do this with a JavaScript) as it provides a better reading experience. You can put styling technically in Atom/RSS but even then, a lot of readers won’t be applying the styling. That said, I definitely appreciate the full post if your site is full of trackers, ads, marketing garbage or other bloat since I can skip the site. Is this some site engineers giving us the nod on a better UX? I read a gridiron football news site & boy does that feed become take a site from unusable to pleasant (good photography).
Re: Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds
#37Great to it’s hosted on a free software forge too not locking in contributions! Not sure I always agree that feeds should have the full post tho. This not only (obviously) bloats the size of the feed, but there are valid reasons to want to drive users to your site--especially if you have demos or you write about code & have your code blocks syntax highlighted (statically, never do this with a JavaScript) as it provid…
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Re: Show HN: OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds
#38I wonder when RSS will experience its "Google Search in 1997" moment? Right now it's beginning to nibble at Yahoo Directory days
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
RSS if anything is in decline, rather than its ascent, because of the fact that in many ways it offers access to content in a way that diminishes ad views. It's not impossible that it could come back from this state, and indeed, outside of this issue, there's nothing wrong with it as a system, and podcasts make heavy use of it. But it's worth being aware of this headwind.
rss is the advertising. It allows me to conveniently keep track of tens of thousands of websites. If you don't have a feed, no problem. Ill just read something else. With few exceptions I can't be bothered to keep looking at a web page hoping something new has happened.
RSS advertises the content, but not the actual sponsors of such content (i.e. commercial ads). It's also pretty hard to make it track readers.
That's why the likes of Meta and Google just don't like it.
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No I totally know it's in ascent, that's my point! Haha! :) Hmm, how to express what I'm saying more clearly -- seems it's been missed? Haha! :) I mean, like RSS seems like where the web was in 1996 - on the ascent! - waiting for its "Google Search" moment, whereas these types of RSS curations in this product and others like it recently, a little bit like Yahoo Directory!
> No I totally know it's in ascent, that's my point! Haha! :) How do you "know" this? Show some proof! RSS has two well-known use cases: news and podcasts. It is fighting a pitched battle against players with deep pockets who want you to consume content where they can monetize it with ads. Google Reader survived for as long as it did because such a service is incredibly cheap to run. Google only ended it to push peop…
I agree with your view, but if we put down our old greybeard hats for a minute - isn't it nice to see a new generation of people potentially getting excited about RSS? The parent comment is clearly by an optimistic youngster, who has just discovered an awesome technology that (he thinks) could change the world. And maybe it can! Just because we've seen it beaten once (well, a few times), it doesn't mean it's dead, and maybe, just maybe, there is something we can't see that will be the real RSS killer app.
Take podcasting - when RSS was first devised, nobody thought of such a use-case; it just happened that the media-attachment hacks tacked on top of it merged, at a particular time and place, with some other emerging tech (the iPod), creating something so good that it's still around.