RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by dyates » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 9:09 AM UTC

RSS: there's nothing better
davidyat.es

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#2

Post by _pdp_ » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 9:57 AM UTC

Google killed the RSS feeds for me. On the flip-side, I am thinking to get back to them sometime soon.

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#3

Post by digi_owl » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:03 AM UTC

Ah yes, twitter lists. It seems they came up with those to undercut the major reason people used the likes of Tweetdeck. Only to later buy up, and shut down the desktop version of, the very same client.

And now it languishes in some side area of the service, seemingly forgotten.

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#4

Post by 0x006A » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:05 AM UTC

so whats a good rss reader in 2017?

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#5

Post by anabisengrin » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:06 AM UTC

_pdp_ wrote: post #2

Google killed the RSS feeds for me. On the flip-side, I am thinking to get back to them sometime soon.

Why do you act in such a victimized way ? You were trapped in a closed system, the trap crumbled down and now you're free. Google did not kill RSS, it killed its RSS reader and that's it. The number of websites providing an RSS feed has not declined since.

I mean I really do not understand your way of thinking ? When Google is no more, will it have killed maps and videos ?

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Post by mantas » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:06 AM UTC

_pdp_ wrote: post #2

Google killed the RSS feeds for me. On the flip-side, I am thinking to get back to them sometime soon.

I stopped RSSing after Google Reader was gone. I started using RSS (well, whatever is left of RSS..) few months ago. Happy!

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Post by anabisengrin » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:06 AM UTC

0x006A wrote: post #4

so whats a good rss reader in 2017?

koffnewsbeuterkoff

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Post by fredley » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:09 AM UTC

I've been seriously considering trying to consume the web solely by RSS again. All the news sites, the few twitter accounts I actually care about, HN. HN still provides RSS, and there are ways to get it for sites that don't support it, e.g. Twitter.

Everything seems to be gearing more towards deliberately occupying as much of my time as possible, algorithmically selecting content that achieves this. I want out of this situation, but overcoming addiction and interrupting the automatic trigger cycle is hard. Maybe now's the time.

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#9

Post by fnl » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:09 AM UTC

And you can push out news on RSS as they arrive, not just "weekly (newsletter) updates" or so.

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Post by smsm42 » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:09 AM UTC

_pdp_ wrote: post #2

Google killed the RSS feeds for me. On the flip-side, I am thinking to get back to them sometime soon.

When Google killed the Reader, I switched to Feedly and still using them. Useful enough so I have paid subscription. Still using them after four years, nothing better around as far as I can see. Facebook certainly not even in the same galaxy, and I have no idea why Twitter even mentioned in that topic. IMHO RSS and accompanied readers are still the best for keeping oneself informed.