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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

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Post by balladeer »

wruza wrote: post #2

Non-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 think I know my reason.

I used RSS to follow some of very niche amateur literary/diary/essays blogs in my native tongue Hindi. Some stopped, some moved to social media, and some “upgraded” to English. That was about it.

Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

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Post by Shaddox »

guybedo wrote: post #58
Shaddox wrote: post #26

I 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!

I just tried your product and I absolutely love it. I like how snappy it feels and adding feeds of my own is a breeze. I also like how minimalist it is and I can just look at my feeds without some ads or content I don't care about bombarding me. With that being said, there are some things that could be done better:

1. Adding a new feed or (especially) removing a feed could be a little more intuitive. Now that I know how to use it it doesn't bother me so much.

2. An all expand in my articles would be nice.

3. if I refresh with the button in my articles everything is highlighted again.

If you don't care about doing more work in it I totally understand where you're coming from and things are fine the way they are.

Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

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Post by zaman8040 »

One 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 click links and navigate to the original site to read each item. While some premium readers claim to offer complete news items, this is probably against the wishes of the site and may be circumvented similar to the add-blocker arms-race. In my opinion if a site model requires users to visit it, then they shouldn't offer feeds at all.

Lastly some feeds are behind logins (e.g. forums), not all readers support these feeds.

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