I had a little project I was working on. every6hours.com, it's a river style feed reader broken down into various silos. Two things that might be unique, I can't keep up with all the reader features anymore. First is that it only updates, as the domain says, every 6 hours because it helps me stay away from constantly reading my feeds, 12 and 6 am/pm EST. Second is that I pull in content from twitter, reddit and hackernews as well as your standard rss feeds. There was a bug 2 weeks ago and I haven't had the time to fix it and get it up and running again.
Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
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Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mastodon supports ATOM natively actually. I'm subscribed to one guy's feed that way right now!
curious, how does one go about "subscribing" to a person's feed via mastodon? Isn't the subscription input value normally someUser@someInstance.net (or https://someInstance.net/someUser )??
Well, just copy+paste their base user URL into your feed reader. I believe the feeds are in the header tags, so your reader will find them and present you with the options.
For example, copying
https://mastodon.social/@b_cavello (the URL for the main Mastodon artist)
will allow you to subscribe to either
https://mastodon.social/users/b_cavello.atom
or
https://mastodon.social/users/b_cavello.rss
in your reader.
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#53Hey, this is a great contribution. Thank you for making it. I run one of the more popular readers and I have to ask why wasn't NewsBlur included in your list. It's the oldest on that list for one. It's also got its own native client on all of the platforms. Plus, I'm a HNer and NewsBlur launched on HN as well. As somebody who has been introducing people, in person, to the concept of RSS for exactly a decade now, I'll…
Social filtering of feeds was great when friendfeed did it.
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mastodon supports ATOM natively actually. I'm subscribed to one guy's feed that way right now!
curious, how does one go about "subscribing" to a person's feed via mastodon? Isn't the subscription input value normally someUser@someInstance.net (or https://someInstance.net/someUser )??
You just add .atom to the web address (often referred to as the "full profile" page in Mastodon UI). So https://some-instance.net/some-user.atom
The full profile page itself also has the usual RSS Auto-Discovery META tags so that most feed readers will accept the profile page address itself and figure out the ATOM feed from that.
The only other twist would be for feed readers to add WebFinger support which would allow them to auto-discover the "full profile" page from the @some-user@some-instance.net style address. I don't think any feed readers have added that yet.
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#55If you want to take it a step further, add some links feed readers that run as browser plugins. Unlike hosted services, they're not as likely to disappear, and they have a low barrier to entry since they don't require any sign up. I've been working on one that runs in Firefox[1], but there are many others that look promising for Chrome as well. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re...
Interesting. How's this one going to handle the upcoming removal of native feed support from Firefox? Have you written a parser?
Firefox's native support going away doesn't really make a big difference, as far as I know you couldn't access it from a plugin anyways.
There are many parsers that are adequate, especially if you don't try to get too fancy. If you're curious, the source is available on github. https://github.com/adamsanderson/brook
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#56Non-social user here (no fb, twitter, other feeds except hn and few forums). I cannot remember why exactly rss stopped fitting my needs. I was using a standalone reader before iphone was a thing, then google reader, and then began to simply check my 3-5 sites at non-busy times. I think that for HN I miss at least 1/2 of all topics since it is “a fast board”, among others. I don’t really want to be overwhelmed by all…
I wrote a custom RSS reader which supports regular expressions for deciding if I want to see a post. So for hacker news I have the following:
mike@snake:~$ rss --list|grep ycombinator
155. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
mike@snake:~$ rss --list-grep 155
74. title = (?i)\b((e-?|web)?mail|irc|internet relay chat|grpc|hashicorp|rust|debian|c\+\+|perl|(bit|name)coin|tor|pgp|gpg|gnupg|openpgp|digitalocean|ovh|linode|grepular|email\sprivacy\stester|parsemail|ssl|https|backdoor|apache|exim|distribut|peer (to|2) peer|vpn|secur|anonym|webrtc|torrent|webtorrent|nextcloud|owncloud|graphql)(ity|ous|e?s|ing?|ed?)?\b
I run it from a cron job, and it just emails me new RSS items. Manages state in an sqlite db. I have a sieve filter to filter those emails into a "News" folder in my mailbox. So I can just read them from whatever email client I'm using on whatever device I'm on.
I don't get why people need to use a third party service for feeds, or a special client for it either.
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#57One problem with feeds is many sites don't have feeds and people blame RSS rather than the site not implementing it. Another problem is noise: most sites just offer a single all-or-nothing feed, while they categorize/tag posts on their site. If they offered a comprehensive set of microfeeds that would help adoption I think (or include the category metadata). Another problem is truncated feeds, requiring users to clic…
i've tried to solve some of these issues with the feed reader i built https://aktu.io :
- sites without feed: These sites usually have a Facebook page so i added a feature to subscribe to a Facebook page. The page posts now appear in your RSS feeds as regular RSS items.
- noise: The content is automatically categorized, with names of people, places, etc... extracted so you can easily filter your feeds. Articles in your feeds are automatically grouped together if they're about the same story, that helps reduce the number of items and at the same time provide different angles on stories.
- truncated content: There's not much to be done for this one i guess, unless you go against the publisher's wishes
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#58I recall I stopped using RSS feeds when Google pulled the plug on the reader. I couldn't find anything that was as convenient and I don't really want to pay for yet another subscription as I have too many of those as it is.
I built https://aktu.io, a mix between GoogleNews and GoogleReader, would love to have your feedback if you want to give it a try!
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#59I like the concept.
Here's a repo I put together with an OPML list of the 22 top US newspapers
https://github.com/newman8r/us-newspapers-opml if anyone would find that useful
feel free to add the list to your site
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#60One problem with feeds is many sites don't have feeds and people blame RSS rather than the site not implementing it. Another problem is noise: most sites just offer a single all-or-nothing feed, while they categorize/tag posts on their site. If they offered a comprehensive set of microfeeds that would help adoption I think (or include the category metadata). Another problem is truncated feeds, requiring users to clic…
Often projects that don't provide RSS do twitter, which can be converted to RSS via online services. Also sometimes you have to look harder than usual, because the presence of an RSS icon only loosely correlates with having actual feeds. Sometimes things like domain.com/feed, domain.com/rss, domain.com/atom yield success, I suspect provided by the website engine itself. Not to take away from your argument
Or just View Source and search for "rss" or "atom".