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RSS: there's nothing better

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Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by onli »

eXpl0it3r wrote: post #137

I see no mention of push notifications as a sort of alternative. Technologically, the polling of RSS feeds to check for new content is a bit wasteful. What I'd like to see is a setup that uses push notifications to gather new content or maybe even a combination, where the push notification tells the RSS reader to grab the new content. Another interesting fact about RSS is, that it's the main distribution solution for…

RSS has that already, exactly that. It is enabled by Pubsubhubbub (PuSH), an (older?) alternative (used by Wordpress) is rsscloud.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by _x5tx »

KORraN wrote: post #95

I 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…

After the end of google reader I transitioned to digg reader and I'm very happy with it. It's clean and minimalist.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by lh7777 »

Entangled wrote: post #75

The problem with RSS is that I don't want to subscribe to blogs that have only one lucky post in a decade, I want a curated list of topics on a daily/weekly fashion and for that newsletters are the best. Unfortunately email is not the best platform for delivering content so I came up with an idea to offer a news reader that consumes newsletters you can subscribe/unsubscribe at any time. It's just like an email client…

Newsblur (a web-based RSS reader) added a newsletter feature a while back that's pretty useful if you want to mix RSS & newsletters in the same place. Set up an email rule to automatically forward your newsletters to a custom address and Newsblur will show them as if they're another site you've subscribed to via RSS.

I'm not a big fan of newsletters myself, but it's nice to be able to include those few sites that only offer newsletters in my regular news reading workflow.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by InternetUser »

KORraN wrote: post #95

I 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 love Google Reader as well, but switched quite seamlessly to Feedly. What's your problem with Feedly? I assume it's something about the aesthetic design of it, because it's very much the same as Google Reader.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by pferde »

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.

There could be something better if someone wrote a completely new format with very strict requirements. Try implementing a RSS reader that can reliably keep track of which items/articles are new, which are old but changed, which are unchanged, etc.

There is enough wiggle room in both RSS and Atom specifications to make you go crazy with all the crappy half-baked feed generators out there, which unfortunately still do not run afoul of the specs, despite pulling all kinds of inconsistent crap.

I don't care if it's json, xml or something completely different, as long as the specs are tight and strict.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by InternetUser »

hylianwarrior wrote: post #29
smsm42 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

Same here. I follow HN FROM Feedly so I can minimize the risk of missing any post.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by onli »

amiraliakbari wrote: post #110
onli wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the site is simple enough, one could also use my Yahoo Pipes revival project[0] to extract content from a page into an RSS feed. [0]: https://www.pipes.digital/

The sites seems somehow immature to me. The "Shared Pipes" sections lists a few examples, but the first one returns an empty feed and the second one returns "Internal Server Error". It is probably because of the definition of the pipes being outdated, but it needs better presentation.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. The first pipe is filtering for crypto currency articles on HN, right now there seems to be none with those exact keywords, I'll add some more. The second is user-provided and probably dies because of the sub-pipe, I removed my upvote - now the second one is https://www.pipes.digital/pipe/kGqKVPOx, which works fine.

In general I tried to keep backwards compatiblity as much as possible, I'm only aware of one single breaking change (filter via regexpression, which was not possible for long before the syntax changed and should not have affected many pipes).

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by m-localhost »

paule89 wrote: post #84

I love RSS/ATOM. The only problem i have is with sites, that don't let me see the complete content inside feedly and i have to open the site in an extra new tab. Would love some suggestions for this. (other feedgraber, self hosted,...)

This chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fullyfeedly/ikdncb...
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