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Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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post #39

I stopped using RSS altogether when Google killed Reader.

If you're worried about being burned again, there's two good self hosted RSS readers out there: Tiny Tiny RSS: https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/explore SelfOSS: http://selfoss.aditu.de/ Both include mobile apps and are open source with web based interfaces and JSON based API's to let you implement your own clients.

Don't forget Newsblur, also OSS and has apps for all the mobile platforms.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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Without a doubt RSS is worth the time. Think of RSS as an advertisement for the stuff on your news site or blog. If you don't publish RSS, how will people find your stuff? By visiting the home page of your site and looking for stuff they haven't seen before? Sure, some people will do that. But people who read your site systematically, people who you would think of as members of your community, can benefit from more a…

Preach it from the mountaintops!

And Thanks so much for mlbriver. It will be a tonic for my seasonal affective disorder that I blame on the NBA and NFL seasons.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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Without a doubt RSS is worth the time. Think of RSS as an advertisement for the stuff on your news site or blog. If you don't publish RSS, how will people find your stuff? By visiting the home page of your site and looking for stuff they haven't seen before? Sure, some people will do that. But people who read your site systematically, people who you would think of as members of your community, can benefit from more a…

Preach it from the mountaintops! And Thanks so much for mlbriver. It will be a tonic for my seasonal affective disorder that I blame on the NBA and NFL seasons.

Glad you like mlbriver.com. I can't believe how it's expanded my knowledge of baseball in just a few days. It's been a long time since I got caught up. Too busy with other things I guess.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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post #39

I stopped using RSS altogether when Google killed Reader.

If you're worried about being burned again, there's two good self hosted RSS readers out there: Tiny Tiny RSS: https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/explore SelfOSS: http://selfoss.aditu.de/ Both include mobile apps and are open source with web based interfaces and JSON based API's to let you implement your own clients.

And almost all of the RSS web services and apps I have looked at support OPML to import and export your feeds. It is really easy to move between RSS systems with minimal loss.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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post #44

I still use RSS for about 250 blogs/sites (tracked by Feedly). That's no near to what it was in times of Google Reader. Some sites stopped providing RSS. For some there was just too much content and it was a pain to filter out everything. I have settled down on those two approaches: 1) If blog/site generates content rare and provides RSS, I use Feedly to track it. 2) If blog/sites generates a lot of content I expect…

Like you, some of the high volume sites I have removed from RSS. Others, I have organized into a high volume group or folder of my RSS Reader. Then I use some keyword filters to notify me of when stuff I really want to read comes through the high volume feeds.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're worried about being burned again, there's two good self hosted RSS readers out there: Tiny Tiny RSS: https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/explore SelfOSS: http://selfoss.aditu.de/ Both include mobile apps and are open source with web based interfaces and JSON based API's to let you implement your own clients.

And almost all of the RSS web services and apps I have looked at support OPML to import and export your feeds. It is really easy to move between RSS systems with minimal loss.

Nope. What about your archives?

I know that for me having an archive of the feeds is pretty darn important.

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS still worth the time?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And almost all of the RSS web services and apps I have looked at support OPML to import and export your feeds. It is really easy to move between RSS systems with minimal loss.

Nope. What about your archives ? I know that for me having an archive of the feeds is pretty darn important.

I can certainly see that for some (many?) people archives are important. I currently use Feedbin.com, and I have occationally searched for a past story.

Mostly, I bookmark and archive important articles, and use a search engine to find more general more none specific info

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