I just started with RSS. It's good thing to hav them back.
It's time to head back to RSS?
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#242I just started using Feedly again, but it looks like adding sub-Reddits is broken - they don't get updated. Anybody know of a way to side-step this? Use IFTTT to shoot new Reddit articles to an RSS feed that Feedly picks up?
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#243RSS isn't conducive to advertising. That in itself makes it a non-starter
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#244I'm interested in a reader that focuses on efficiency; like probably most people, no matter how much I try to cull them I end up with too many items in my list, more than I have time for. Let's say it takes an average of 2.5 seconds to read a feed item subject line, decide whether to read it[0], and nothing else - not opening or reading any articles. In half an hour of concentration you could do that with ~700 feed i…
The major feature here would be deduplication, in my opinion. That would be hard to do though as it would have to parse the feed contents (which vary from links to articles to full blow articles sometimes) and use some kind of percentage to determine whether or not it's a dupe? Curious if there is a smarter solution to that feature possibility.
FYI Inoreader does some deduplication by default. As you scroll you see a message like 'Filtered one similar article'. I haven't noticed any duplicates. That doesn't help when everyone's talking about the same thing, of course.
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#245This article comes just days after DIGG shut down their RSS reader. Sux, I used it every day. Me and my OPML file are looking for a new home... https://digg.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000678608
I went from digg to feedly. It's almost the same experience.
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#246Yes. But please not RSS. At least newer initiatives like JSON Feed have maintainers who respond to requests for improvements. RSS feels like an abandoned standard. I tried to submit an improvement to the author directly to explicitly allow HTTPS URLs in light of upcoming iTunes changes to enforce HTTPS; they said by email that of course HTTPS resources are valid in their view, but they weren't prepared to actively up…
How does, in your opinion, JSON Feed compare to Atom?
In all honesty, “it's not XML” seems to be the main selling point.
But that and the fact that it's on GitHub, which makes it more accessible to use and engage with for many developers, may be enough of a plus to embrace it. https://github.com/brentsimmons/JSONFeed
I also find the spec much easier to read: https://jsonfeed.org/version/1
Beyond that they are similar and the mapping differences are described here: https://jsonfeed.org/mappingrssandatom
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#247To me, RSS and Twitter/FB/etc are very different things. With RSS you are „alone“ while reading it. There’s no one to discuss things with you. I‘m not really qualified to make this statement, but I‘d say RSS feeds don’t have a social component, leaving your limbic system (responsible for social interaction) widely out of the process. You process the info and that’s it. With Twitter, everything is attached to a social…
Well, one reason Google Reader’s closure was such a loss was because it added a social layer to RSS. And it was a completely optional and non-intrusive social layer. I really wish Google had tried to enhance Reader instead of killing it to promote Google+. Allowing the ability to post short messages in your shared feeds would have made it very Twitter like, only nicer.
They should kill Google Plus and resurrect the Reader.
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#248I never stopped using RSS. I follow a few hundred blogs (many of them have only very very few posts. Rule of thumb: The lower the post frequency, the higher the quality). I host my tinyRSS. I consider offering it to the public for free.
Here is a good RSS feed for Hackernews: http://hnrss.org/newest?points=300
Here is a service to convert a twitter feed to RSS (never really understood twitter, sorry) Example http://twitrss.me/twitter_user_to_rss/?user=Lsigurd
Here is a service to convert many RSSless websites to an RSS feed. Works soso. https://feedity.com/
EDIT: Hackernews RSS feed link was wrong
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#249RSS isn't conducive to advertising. That in itself makes it a non-starter
What makes you say that? Text based advertising sure could be a part of RSS.
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#250If any one who doesn't like RSS like me but wish to get all their news websites in one place, I made an app for that. https://7web.co Hope it helps someone.