It's time to head back to RSS? • Hacker News Board

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by sonar_un » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 1:53 PM UTC

noam87 wrote: post #60

I've been a (paying) user of NewsBlur ( https://newsblur.com/ ) since Google Reader shut down and haven't looked back. 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.

I use NewsBlur as well ever since the demise of Google Reader. The native apps are fantastic and it’s been dead reliable. I feel the small amount I pay for it is totally worth it and is definitely one of my most used apps. I don’t think it gets enough love.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by cedricbonhomme » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 1:53 PM UTC

foxhop wrote: post #257

cedricbonhomme wrote: post #201

I use my own RSS reader since around 8 years now. It has evolved quite a lot. Before I was using aKregator. I started with a simple CherryPy project and a SQLite database. It is now using Flask, SQLAlchemy and React: https://www.newspipe.org/ I have something like 200000 articles in the database. And the oldest article is from February 1995!

Oh a whim I decided to grab an account. Very cool! I'll likely use this. Because I have never really used an RSS reader before I'll likely not have any biases as a user which I think is good. I think one recommendation is that while Newspipe is pulling in a new feed for a new user, on the home page it should give a message like, "your posts will appear here"

Thanks, I appreciate.

I never thought about this. Good idea. Just updated Newspipe: https://github.com/newspipe/newspipe/commit/9479b9abf4bc3525...

Feel free to open issues on GitHub ;-)

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 1:54 PM UTC

mandelbulb wrote: post #11

Have been using https://inoreader.com since the Year Google Reader closed, and imho, it's better than Feedly. I'm also usually reading HN via my full-text feed. Meaning, I don't have to load a link every time, I focus on the articles first, and I can easily pre-load everything for offline reading on mobile. I think, in case of RSS such online services are superior to self-hosted solutions - whether server or client -…

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Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by skosch » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 1:56 PM UTC

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #51

I'm bummed that no one has mentioned Feedbin, for which I have paid since it launched back in 2013(?). It's fast, not too larded up with unnecessary features, works across the desktop, iOS, and Android, and costs money, so I know that it'll be around for a while, and that I'm the customer and not the product. https://feedbin.com Edit: it's also OSS: https://github.com/feedbin

And it's really well designed!

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by SubiculumCode » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 1:56 PM UTC

Is there RSS used as a social platform?

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by qwerty456127 » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 1:58 PM UTC

Great idea. But why RSS when there is Atom?

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by tootie » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 1:59 PM UTC

RSS + AMP. Let's do it.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by slater » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 2:02 PM UTC

cedricbonhomme wrote: post #201

I use my own RSS reader since around 8 years now. It has evolved quite a lot. Before I was using aKregator. I started with a simple CherryPy project and a SQLite database. It is now using Flask, SQLAlchemy and React: https://www.newspipe.org/ I have something like 200000 articles in the database. And the oldest article is from February 1995!

Just a heads-up: Tried logging in before I got the confirmation e-mail, typo in error message:

> User is desactivated

Should probably be something like

> User account has not been activated yet. Check your e-mail, etc. etc.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by rpedela » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 2:03 PM UTC

Jetroid wrote: post #232

_pctq wrote: post #164

Funny, I've set up a RSS reader again just this week. Prior to that, my main source of information was google feed (when you sweep right on android main screen - for those who don't know it, it's a feed of news curated by google supposed to match our interests). I totally loved it, as it properly detected my interests and shown articles about them even from websites I don't know about. But lately, I saw more and more…

> it's a feed of news curated by google supposed to match our interests Really? I've always found it to be awful, majority things I am not interested in. I just checked, and only 2 in 10 were mildly interesting to me. Three of them were about sports, which is way off the mark for me. Does it optimise based on my interactions with that application in particular, or is it meant to be linked with the rest of my google a…

Being pro-active about telling it which topics or sources you don't like helps a lot. My only wish is to say that I don't like a specific article. Often I get an article on a topic from a source I generally like but the specific article is junk.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by rb808 » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 2:06 PM UTC

sago wrote: post #55

RSS is awesome. Bring on its resurgence. 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 partic…

I love RSS, I think its much better than facebook. But having voting or a score on items would be nice.