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Pretty much any RSS client these days can connect to Feedly API so you don't need to use their app.
I don't know any RSS clients.
RSS: there's nothing better
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#112I use Thunderbird for my email + RSS together. Somehow the three things that lots of people keep on thinking are dead or dying work perfectly together.
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GP probably meant targeted ads, beyond just 'well if you like this feed,'...
You could have a identifiable feed URL. Static, personalised ads that most feed readers wouldn't block. And in terms of technology, there's nothing stopping you sticking an iframe or script block in your feed. It comes back to what the reader will allow. Origin really doesn't matter too much.
If you use a web reader, I think you don't even need an unique url if your ads are static images. Just request an image from your server and use the user cookie for recommendations
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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.
Feedly killed RSS for me. The way their mobile app scrolls[1] articles just absolutely ruined the experience and I couldn’t find any better app/service before giving up on RSS entirely [1] https://i.imgsir.com/G0jR.gif - weird entire page scroll going on instead of just scrolling normally. Makes it impossible to skim read the titles
I use newsify. You should check it out.
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#115I wrote about this recently[1]. The "problem" with RSS, that essentially lead to it falling out of favour, is that it is pure consumption, not interaction. You can't "like" an update that comes to you via RSS, nor comment, nor easily share. It's difficult for sites to monetise it, or track, or promote their own agenda. It's not "social" and since every other site these days needs to be social, whether through aforeme…
I use a blend of things. For a story that's breaking right now, I go to Twitter. For blogs and websites that consistently have things I want to read, I use RSS + Feedly (I follow around 40 feeds). For actual news, I use Apple News. I probably spend the least time on Twitter and the most in the Apple News app. Apple News does a remarkably good job of showing me things I want to read. I assume it's based on how long I…
I tried Apple News for a few months. I felt like it started to filter what it was showing me based on what I was reading. One of the reasons I prefer an RSS feed is I don’t get the impression that the news source may be tailoring the news feed.
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#116I really miss Google Reader. Nowadays if I want to follow updates from my friends or events from some organizations, I almost certainly have to like/follow them on FB. But even doing this I cannot be sure that I will get news that I want - because despite I always use "Most Recent" sorting, FB is hiding some content from me. Many times I saw interesting post when accidentally entering FB "Top stories", from let's say…
I've been using https://tt-rss.org/ as a Google Reader replacement for years and highly recommend it. You do have to run it yourself, though.
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#117For those looking for an RSS reader for mobile that doesn’t use flashy animations and is highly customizable, I suggest checking out Newsify.
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#118I wonder if "Rankings" from sites like Reddit and HN could be considered copyright protected. I think using rankings scraped from the RSS source entry page could result in a better user experience. And give Newspapers back incentive to produce quality Content.
HN API doesn't have any limitations what so ever. I'm not using its RSS, but I have a script running on my server every five minutes that sends a new push notification on my phone every time a HN story reaches 500 points. Simple and straightforward way of keeping up with the tech, made in like 40 lines of Python: https://github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/automation-scripts/b...
Funny, for me 500 points would be a flag that the story is not technical enough, and probably about how the latest iPhone's UI sucks, gender inequality in SV, Google/FB/Hw manufacturer spying on our life, and many other similar topics that inevitably end up in a lot of bikeshedding
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#119I wrote about this recently[1]. The "problem" with RSS, that essentially lead to it falling out of favour, is that it is pure consumption, not interaction. You can't "like" an update that comes to you via RSS, nor comment, nor easily share. It's difficult for sites to monetise it, or track, or promote their own agenda. It's not "social" and since every other site these days needs to be social, whether through aforeme…
What you try to say is (I think): RSS is better because it's totally foreign to clickbait. The goals sites try to reach using clickbait are goals not helped by RSS. Right? RSS is badly suited as a vector for virally driven waves of outrage. "Let's call it an accidental feature" as lwall once wrote.
He's partially right, the web 2.0 trend was all about interaction, "we" all believed it would be heavens on earth while we now know it's far from that and now I (we?) would love to go back to light and simple aggregation.
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#120I wrote about this recently[1]. The "problem" with RSS, that essentially lead to it falling out of favour, is that it is pure consumption, not interaction. You can't "like" an update that comes to you via RSS, nor comment, nor easily share. It's difficult for sites to monetise it, or track, or promote their own agenda. It's not "social" and since every other site these days needs to be social, whether through aforeme…
Yup. RSS is exactly what it say it is. Nothing more. Nothing less. And in that simplicity is a tool that just works. No wresting with authenication. No "oh shit they updated the API." None of that. Sure RSS has it's limits. But there are plenty of times that's a positive. It's disheartening to see RSS not get the respect and value it deserves.
DILLY DILLY!