RSS: there's nothing better • Hacker News Board

fredley wrote: post #8

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 thi…

I actually read everything by RSS except HN, since the posts here often get better over time, thanks to comments, so they're less suitable for RSS, in my opinion.

By the way, if you follow YouTube channels, not only do they still provide RSS feeds, as you can get a nice OPML file of all the channels you subscribe to: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager (scroll to the bottom)

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Post by baby » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:22 AM UTC

fredley wrote: post #8

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 thi…

As an ex RSS addict I'm wondering why you think you can fix things by using RSS feeds. For me it actually takes more of my time.

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Post by jwilk » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:22 AM UTC

0x006A wrote: post #4

so whats a good rss reader in 2017?

rss2email: https://github.com/wking/rss2email

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Post by pacifika » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:22 AM UTC

genericacct wrote: post #19

Well there could be something better if someone rewrote it in JSON; but it works so it's best left untouched i guess.

Search for jsonfeed

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Post by icebraining » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:22 AM UTC

0x006A wrote: post #4

so whats a good rss reader in 2017?

If you don't mind self-hosting, I really like TinyTinyRSS. It has a decent Android client too.

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Post by hylianwarrior » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:23 AM UTC

smsm42 wrote: post #10

_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.

I came to this thread from Feedly :)

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Post by robin_reala » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 10:29 AM UTC

0x006A wrote: post #4

so whats a good rss reader in 2017?

Feedly is good; I use it in conjunction with Reeder on my desktop and phone for syncing.