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Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by southwesterly » Tue, Sep 03, 2024, 4:11 PM UTC

elfelf12 wrote: post #44

shortformblog wrote: post #39

As a publisher who publishes a full-text RSS feed at a time when not a lot of publishers do, I must say: The publisher should have a say in this. This is not to say that this is a good idea or a bad one, but I think you will, long-term, have better luck if people don’t feel their content is being siphoned. A great case-in-point is what my friends at 404 Media did: https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-emai…

I disagree. If you put your content out in the open for everyone to read, it is totally valid to scrape that content. Otherwise put it behind a paywall. If i can access it for free with a browser then you should be fine with me consuming your content with the tool of my choice. So i can search or use it however i see fit. Why not? Getting consumed by ai scrapers will be inevitable in the long run i think.

So I can take all the words written here by you and use them to pretend to be you elsewhere online, right?

Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by throwaway14356 » Tue, Sep 03, 2024, 4:14 PM UTC

z3t4 wrote: post #9

The mystical creature - the URL - is a link to a resource that doesn't have to be static, it's only the URL that is static. eg. the content might change. So you might want to have the program revisit the resource once in a while to see if there are updates.

A really original idea i see one time: someone was writing a technical book in the first post of their blog, new posts talked about the work they done and linked to that part of the book. At times the posts had almost nothing besides the link, sometimes they talked about the technicalities and considerations of the writing but at times it just talked about every day life, why it was a good or a bad day to write.

When the book was done the blog was replaced by a link where one could buy the printed version.

Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by yawnxyz » Tue, Sep 03, 2024, 9:09 PM UTC

cxr wrote: post #6

yawnxyz wrote: post #4

It's so clever to just pull from Wayback Machine rather than scrape the site itself. Never even thought of that

Before building an app that depends on the Wayback Machine (or other Archive infrastructure) it's good to keep in mind this post from their blog: https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let-us-serve-you-but-don... > One of my favorite tricks when coming across a blog with a longtail of past posts is to verify that it's hosted on WordPress and then to ingest the archives into my feedreader. Once you have the WordPress fee…

wait, so if WordPress is migrating 500M blogs to Wordpress[1], does this mean essentially we'll have easy access to all tumblr blogs' history?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/tumblr-migrates-more...

Re: Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog

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Post by 8organicbits » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 8:00 PM UTC

breck wrote: post #28

kevindamm wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not the GP commenter, but I'm supposing there would be some way of announcing the git repo where you can find the source -- similar to the ` ` tag used for RSS, you could have a ..and tooling could take care of all the things you like in an RSS reader. I could see this working really well for static site generators like vitepress or Jekyll or what have you, but going beyond what's in the source is kind of project…

> This is a _great_ idea. Let's make this happen. Edit: okay this is live now in Scroll and across PLDB, my blog, and other sites. Would love if someone could post this link to HackerNews: https://scroll.pub/blog/gitOverRss.html

I'd post the link, and I agree it's a cool idea, but the post looks like a pretty shallow rehashing of the thread.