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It's time to head back to RSS?

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

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Post by mintplant »

Animats wrote: post #323

The key thing to know about RSS is that most of the real news sources, those that have actual reporters who go out and find news, have RSS feeds. Reuters, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the BBC... Here's Reuters Top News.[1] Just the news, no ads, no clickbait. Reuters is useful because their RSS feed contains a readable story summary. Many RSS feeds just have a truncated sentence and a link. Both CNN [2]…

Tiny Tiny RSS [0] comes with suite of scraper plugins for populating truncated feeds with their full content, and a simple API for writing new ones.

[0] https://tt-rss.org/

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

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Post by daveFNbuck »

lousken wrote: post #355
daveFNbuck wrote: post #311

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always had Feedly set to display the full article in the reader. It's been a feature since the day I switched from Google Reader. Is "mobilized content" different from that?

Not sure what Full article means since I wasn't on feedly for so long but I guess you mean only what the feed exposes to you (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss there's always only Comments link). But if I say mobilized content in inoreader it downloads the website, parses it and shows it to me https://i.imgur.com/b09hh6Y.png

Oh, I prefer just having the content and not all the other garbage the site includes.

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Post by AHMagic »

jlgaddis wrote: post #420
Animats wrote: post #323

The key thing to know about RSS is that most of the real news sources, those that have actual reporters who go out and find news, have RSS feeds. Reuters, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the BBC... Here's Reuters Top News.[1] Just the news, no ads, no clickbait. Reuters is useful because their RSS feed contains a readable story summary. Many RSS feeds just have a truncated sentence and a link. Both CNN [2]…

CNN's web site and RSS feed both suck but, fortunately, they have a nice text-only version [0] of the site. It's the only way I read CNN. [0]: https://lite.cnn.io/en

How can you tolerate CNN’s sophomoric clickbait plastered across their home page?

http://knn.press looks better, and that’s saying something.

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Post by harlanji »

macspoofing wrote: post #225
Zhyl wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Podcasting feels like an alternate reality where none of the massive players took over and everything stayed federated.

Yep. It's perplexing that a YouTube for podcasts (with centralized ad serving and similar profit sharing) hasn't emerged. The space is endearing - maybe that's why it is so vibrant?

I’m on it: Tiny DataCenter. Lots of live hacking in the last month on my YouTube channel ‘iSpooge Daily’, info in latest post: https://ispooge.com/feed.xml — a 30min show and tell

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

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Post by pacoverdi »

aoeusnth1 wrote: post #407
pacoverdi wrote: post #110

> THE MODERN WEB contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers This is from a page that connects to (excerpt): c.amazon-adsystem.com z-na.amazon-adsystem.com tag.bounceexchange.com graph.facebook.com sb.scorecardresearch.com cdn.mediavoice.com odb.outbrain.com cdn.quantummetric.com native.sharethrough.com s.skimresources.com pixel.tapad.com d.turn.com p.typekit.net use.typekit.net cdn.yldbt.com segment…

Yeah, but to be fair, the journalist who wrote this has little to no influence over the analytics choices made by the web developers who run wired.com.

Sure. Couldn't help to notice the irony though :)

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Post by Sylos »

emodendroket wrote: post #292
Sylos wrote: post #287

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On what OS? And what are your criteria for "doesn't suck"?

Windows, and I guess what I mean is that I can generally read the articles without having to open them in my Web browser (which something like Thunderbird isn't really good for). If you have a recommendation I'd be happy to take a look at it.

That doesn't seem like too hard of a criterion to fulfill, but well, I'm rather fond of QuiteRSS.

It has all of the options for automatic filtering and tagging, and its UI is rather configurable, too. It's also open-source.

https://quiterss.org/

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

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Post by kqr »

toasterlovin wrote: post #5

If you haven’t tried RSS as your main mode of information consumption in a while, you should give it a shot. I went all-in on RSS recently and it’s been great. Way more thoughtful, long form content. Smaller dose information sources (Twitter, etc.) are useful in their own way, but I’ve found that the amount of time required to create a unit of media is a pretty good reverse indicator of how likely it is to use the ba…

This was a good ad for syndication. I'll definitely give it a new attempt. Thank you!

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

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Post by pmlnr »

avhon1 wrote: post #417
pmlnr wrote: post #354

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Firefox used to display and RSS icon in the url bar if the site had a feed, allowing you to subscribe you to "live bookmarks" - feeds: http://johnbokma.com/firefox/rss-and-live-bookmarks.html This is completely hidden from the UI by now.

In Firefox, if you click the hamburger menu and select "Customize...", one of the things you can drag into either the menu or the button bar is an RSS feed indicator/subscribe button.

You wouldn't believe how much it matters what the default is; people don't customize any more.

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Post by gabuzome_ »

wyclif wrote: post #186
_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…

A lot of people don't seem to be aware of it, but you can "tune" Google News by adding or deleting sources. I've tweaked mine quite a bit and it works well as a lazy news source. It's not as finely granulated as my RSS consumption, and it won't replace my RSS reader, but it's better than I at first thought it would be after adjusting the defaults.

Funny story, Google News, the web interface seems to have been abondonned by Google. The normal web interface that is, don't know about mobile. The "Sources" preference on news.google.com has a bug - whenever you try to block a new source, it replaces the old one, so you can only ever block one source at a time :D

Which isn't sufficient as their feed keeps showing material from Daily Mail and similar garbage. Skipping it manually isn't a problem, but it does take the space of meaningful news reports.

Users sent countless bug reports and started many threads on their forums since around June 2017, no reply. Nowadays I just aggregate aljazeera and reuters, way more efficient.

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Post by leonroy »

criddell wrote: post #310
theclaw wrote: post #278

I've tried Feedly but my goodness, the corporate language is such a turn off. I just want a feed reader, I don't want to "Fuel your team's success," "Enrich articles with unique insights," "Automate your content workflows," "Reinforce your digital brand". These features may be cool and useful, but the way they're sold makes me gag. I used my ad blocker to remove the "Well done!" that appears when everything is marked…

I think it was Feedly that has sent me a survey asking what I want them to work on. My reply was that it does its job just fine. Reduce the team to a skeleton crew and slip into maintenance mode. It seems dangerous to keep expanding the feature set because you are just expanding your future maintenance budget. I don't think I've ever shared a single thing from my news reader. I don't want people sending me stuff so i…

This. Sadly though VC money doesn’t really align with a reasonable rate of return. Seems Feedly did take on a $1M round a little while back - that said they’ve been around since 2006...

I use it everyday, one of my favourite apps — hope they’ll keep the product around in its present form for a long while yet.

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