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

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Post by gabuzome_ »

wyclif wrote: post #472
gabuzome_ wrote: post #449

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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. Skippin…

Not true. I just added a random number of blocked sources and none of them were replaced. Currently blocking 5 or 6 different sites. Chrome version 65.0.3325.181.

Heh, I guess they prefer you. Just tested with chromium 65.0.3325.181 and the bug is there. Have you tried leaving and coming back to the preference page?

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

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Post by bovermyer »

spikej wrote: post #477
itsame wrote: post #474

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Ah, tt-rss... After Google announced that Google Reader was going the way of the dodo, I spun up my own instance of tt-rss, and used their (paid) Android app too... until I decided to file some bugs on their Redmine bug tracker. There were a few bugs I had encountered (can't recall if it was on the mobile app, or on the browser UI), and decided to report to them. I opened a few reports (maybe 2 or 3?), and continued…

After Google Reader, I tried a bunch of different ones. Feedly was the best I could find but there were a number of things that just annoyed me. I had an issue with one of my feeds and got very little help from their support. That was the last straw and I decided to revisit alternatives. I somehow stumbled upon BazQux, and I noticed the same issue with the one feed on that platform as well. The developer was incredib…

This caught my attention. For those who don't feel like searching for it: https://bazqux.com/

I like that it looks almost identical to (how I remember) Google Reader.

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

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Post by sir_brickalot »

bostik wrote: post #329
sir_brickalot wrote: post #308

I miss Sage++ (Higmmers Edition). [1] Sidebar RSS reader for Firefox. It was perfect for my use case. (Now its dead due to WebExtension) [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/sagepp-higmmers-...

So do I, but I've discovered a reasonable replacement: Brief.[0] 0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/brief/

I try to get along with Feedbro but its just not the same. [0]

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/

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

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Post by kevwil »

This strikes a nerve, one still tender and stinging from Google's betrayal of Reader users. Yes, still.

Things like Facebook's non-chronological feed algorithm still annoy me greatly, and a good RSS/Atom aggregator would please me to no end. I switched to Feedly but really need to take better control of my Internet news consumption so I welcome a revival of RSS.

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

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Post by mintplant »

itsame wrote: post #474
mintplant wrote: post #441

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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/

Ah, tt-rss... After Google announced that Google Reader was going the way of the dodo, I spun up my own instance of tt-rss, and used their (paid) Android app too... until I decided to file some bugs on their Redmine bug tracker. There were a few bugs I had encountered (can't recall if it was on the mobile app, or on the browser UI), and decided to report to them. I opened a few reports (maybe 2 or 3?), and continued…

Yes, I had a similar experience with the maintainer when trying to contribute back to tt-rss (two pull requests closed with rather rude explanations that suggested my submissions had barely been glanced at).

Still, tt-rss offers killer features for me that other options don't: self-hostable, being able to write my own scraper plugins (the big one in this discussion), and a solid Android app. So I continue to use it and just keep any code improvements to myself.

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

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Post by manicdee »

pmlnr wrote: post #191
manicdee wrote: post #73

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RSS for headlines and federation of feeds, Disqus for comments.

webmentions and microsub, please. Disqus is just another silo, it has nothing to do with RSS and federation.

Thanks for the pointer. What facility does webmention have to support moderation of comments on my articles?

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

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Post by mechhrt »

hokus wrote: post #468
typon wrote: post #251

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Agreed. Imagine having an RSS feed for all the posts here on Hackernews and just reading that instead. I come here mainly for the comments - and not usually to debate or discuss even - a lot of times to contextualize the content in question because inevitably someone more knowledgeable will post their thoughts about it. RSS is not a panacea and it is no replacement for social platforms.

Something more sexy than just... https://news.ycombinator.com/rss ...would be nice. Such a nerdy website should really publish an OPML for its top tabs. It would be truly nerdy if they would crawl for available feeds from front page news articles and build an OPML out of that. Flat lists of feeds works too. Imagine an OPML or a flat list of feeds including everything with more than 100 points from the last 30 days. N…

Are you aware of hnrss.org? Not my site but one I find extremely useful.

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

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Post by wyclif »

gabuzome_ wrote: post #481
wyclif wrote: post #472

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Not true. I just added a random number of blocked sources and none of them were replaced. Currently blocking 5 or 6 different sites. Chrome version 65.0.3325.181.

Heh, I guess they prefer you. Just tested with chromium 65.0.3325.181 and the bug is there. Have you tried leaving and coming back to the preference page?

Yes, I have. Quit and restarted Chrome. There's no bug. I'm afraid there's no way to reproduce the behaviour you describe.

I have Fox News, Daily Mail, CNN, and a number of other sources blocked. No issues whatsoever.

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

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Post by gabuzome_ »

wyclif wrote: post #489
gabuzome_ wrote: post #481

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh, I guess they prefer you. Just tested with chromium 65.0.3325.181 and the bug is there. Have you tried leaving and coming back to the preference page?

Yes, I have. Quit and restarted Chrome. There's no bug. I'm afraid there's no way to reproduce the behaviour you describe. I have Fox News, Daily Mail, CNN, and a number of other sources blocked. No issues whatsoever.

Interesting. So it's only broken for a small subset of people, which explains why they never even bothered answering. I suppose it is tied to my account then, since various laptops and browsers gave me the same behavior.
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