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Edit: it's also OSS: https://github.com/feedbin
I built a tiny website back in 2005-ish to aggregate RSS feeds from sites that I was interested in. Just for myself and didn't think too much that it could have been an actual product. That was before Google Reader launching in October 2005. Today it's sad to see Google Reader discontinued. Somehow I find this article very interesting in that it's kind of a sandwich that the promotion of Feedly is inserted in the mid…
If you already use an email client and have a place to run cron jobs, I highly recommend a feed->email converter. No need for a separate RSS reader, and you get cross-device syncing for free. Options include feed2email[1], feed2imap[2], and my own feedmail[3] (just "released", but I've been using it for years). I prefer clients like the latter two that can upload via IMAP, since that gives better control than sending…
[0] https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl...
I just remember the overwhelm: opening up Google Reader and forgetting what I went there to do because there were so many unread things. I don’t think this is endemic to a protocol, but the social filter on top of content is how I find most of the things that I find useful and interesting today.
I always found RSS/Atom most useful for following sources (usually personal blogs and podcasts) that post infrequently, but where every post is worth reading. Like Oona Räisänen's blog: http://www.windytan.com/ For sources that post a lot, it's less useful, since I can just visit every couple of days and have stuff to read. And this means one can easily keep up with the feeds.
But.
It is fundamentally not fit as a Facebook or social media replacement because of it's lack of simple commenting support. It suits some curmudgeonly old farts like me, perhaps. But even I want to feedback sometimes or join in the discussion (hence this comment).
Are there solutions that a content creator can provide, via RSS, without requiring its readers to install particular jiggery pokery? Or is the only option HN / reddit style commenting sites, separate from the content?
For some sources, it's the only way to keep up. I like that I can keep track of web comics I'm interested in. For thinks like Medium and Wordpress, they already have a feed reading compatible format.
I also add my Github, so I can see when other people commit to repositories in my lab.
Feed reading is great because it allows one to lurk. It gives the consumer more control over when to view material.
Hey Wired, maybe RSS would be more popular if media outlets like you would put more in your RSS feeds than a title and single sentence for each article. But I get it. You need ads to make money, and just putting ads in your RSS feed is not enough because they're not "interactive" enough, or something. You need those "engagement" metrics that you generate by making readers press a button to read the full article. I wa…
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I always found RSS/Atom most useful for following sources (usually personal blogs and podcasts) that post infrequently, but where every post is worth reading. Like Oona Räisänen's blog: http://www.windytan.com/ For sources that post a lot, it's less useful, since I can just visit every couple of days and have stuff to read. And this means one can easily keep up with the feeds.
How do you identify such sites?
p.s: In HN spirit, it also happens to be one developer's side-project-turned-profitable-business, and the "social" features a totally non-intrusive, but there if you want to know what people are sharing and commenting on.