RSS: there's nothing better • Hacker News Board

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by pmoriarty » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 5:46 PM UTC

0x006A wrote: post #4

so whats a good rss reader in 2017?

newsbeuter is an excellent, feature rich, RSS/Atom reader for the terminal.

This is how I've read HN for ages.

http://www.newsbeuter.org/index.html

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by fiddlerwoaroof » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 6:06 PM UTC

JoshMnem wrote: post #158

tzahola wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has the same limitations as HTML. For HTML, these limitations were circumvented by burying the platform under an ever increasing heap of javascript crap.

What limitations are those? HTML is great for what it's supposed to do (allow anyone to publish and distribute content online). RSS/Atom is great for what it does too.

I like html but a lighter format along the lines of TeX or something s-expression/indentation based would have been nicer

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by lostmsu » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 6:10 PM UTC

dleslie wrote: post #189

leejo wrote: post #44

I 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…

And this is why Google Reader was amazing. There we were, my friends and I, reading RSS feeds and liking/sharing/commenting amongst ourselves. pours one out

Here we are now, in a line with BSS and Usenix users.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by fiddlerwoaroof » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 6:19 PM UTC

asymmetric wrote: post #38

I really want to like RSS but almost every from a commercial outlet serves “stubs” instead of full articles, I.e. to read the full thing you have to click through and land on their website (for ad-serving purposes I imagine) I had found a solution in fulltextrssfeeds.com, but it was slow, cumbersome and didn’t always work. How do you folks solve this?

tt-rss has a plug-in that lets you specify which part of the linked article is the actual content and then, when it pulls the feed, it replaces the feed content with the text of the specified element.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by ronjouch » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 6:46 PM UTC

waz0wski wrote: post #195

ronjouch wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off-topic: what do you use for self-hosted email? I'm considering abandoning it and going back to gmail/fastmail, for the constant configuration hassle (DKIM/SPF, etc.) causing sent/received emails to be incorrectly marked as spam and/or refused :-/ Any "sane defaults, regular updates, impossible to shoot yourself in the foot" package to recommend?

https://mailcow.email https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign https://mailinabox.email FreeBSD-specific: http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=4

Thanks :)

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by dingo_bat » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 6:52 PM UTC

Google reader. Never forget.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by calmchaos » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 6:59 PM UTC

Feedbro RSS Feed reader has built-in Rule engine that lets you define rules for filtering/highlighting/autotagging articles.

https://nodetics.com/feedbro/

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by calmchaos » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 7:05 PM UTC

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,...)

Feedbro has built-in Readability style engine that can transform partial feeds to full feeds (you have to set it in Properties for each feed): https://nodetics.com/feedbro/

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by softwarelimits » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 7:10 PM UTC

calmchaos wrote: post #227

Feedbro RSS Feed reader has built-in Rule engine that lets you define rules for filtering/highlighting/autotagging articles. https://nodetics.com/feedbro/

With the HN feed I get this error:

  Unable to load feed https://news.ycombinator.com/rss:
  503: Unable to read feed: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

That is a pitty, looks like an interesting project? Does it have an open issue tracker?

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by calmchaos » Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 7:19 PM UTC

softwarelimits wrote: post #229

calmchaos wrote: post #227

Feedbro RSS Feed reader has built-in Rule engine that lets you define rules for filtering/highlighting/autotagging articles. https://nodetics.com/feedbro/

With the HN feed I get this error: Unable to load feed https://news.ycombinator.com/rss: 503: Unable to read feed: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss That is a pitty, looks like an interesting project? Does it have an open issue tracker?

HN site sometimes throws that error i.e. that URL returns HTTP code 503 and no feed content. It's intermittent and not really a Feedbro bug.