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

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Post by igneo676 »

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…

That's the primary reason I don't use tt-rss myself. I switched to Miniflux https://miniflux.net/ and never looked back :D

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

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Post by jhund »

Shameless plug: We created https://contentgems.com as a feed reader on steroids: You can follow feeds, however you can also filter them based on powerful keyword based search (and other params). You can follow the CG firehose (tens of thousands of feeds we follow and index for you), to discover new feeds. And then you can curate and share the best articles from CG. It's a mashup of Feedly, Google Alerts, Buffer, and IFTTT/Zapier.

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

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Post by daveFNbuck »

lousken wrote: post #289
daveFNbuck wrote: post #20

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What makes it better than Feedly? I've been using Feedly since Google Reader closed and I think it pretty much nails this simple tool. How is it even possible to be much better?

Whenever I'm on slow internet I appreciate loading "mobilized content" - it will show you contents of the article right on the site. Also in general it felt a lot faster than feedly (left 2yrs ago though, feedly might've changed).

How do you get "mobilized content" in Inoreader? My experience using both now is that Inoreader cuts off some of my longer feeds at the fold with a link to the site while Feedly displays the entire contents of every article.

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

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Post by NicoJuicy »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #394
duiker101 wrote: post #364

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Seems pretty dead. There's a timeout on the db.

Performance, it's probably syncing RSS feeds or too many people ( as mentioned, need to improve it). Seems to work fine though when i'm watching it: http://handlr.sapico.me/Home/Newest but a db timeout could be indeed.

Edit: made it 50% faster by now. Not enough though

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

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Post by guybedo »

i never thought it was time to give up on rss. Facebook has become a mess, and never was a place to get news from.

After Google Reader was shutdown, i switched to Feedly, but was missing some features, so i decided to build something that would be a cross over between a regular RSS reader and a news aggregator like Google News. So now i can manage my rss feeds, and check out the news in the world that don't show up in my feeds. I also added automatic categorization, entity extraction, and will be adding recommendations, filters, rules, etc...

If you want to give it a try and give me somme feedback, you're welcome :-)

http://aktu.io

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

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Post by guybedo »

mandelbulb wrote: post #49
daveFNbuck wrote: post #20

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What makes it better than Feedly? I've been using Feedly since Google Reader closed and I think it pretty much nails this simple tool. How is it even possible to be much better?

The dev has always been really responsive and closely watching the community, while Feedly focuses on premium support and feels more corporate. Several features are free: Unlimited sources and feeds, entire search for your own feeds, unlimited tags, sharing via inoreader email There is also: loading of mobilized content via single click/key, better shortcuts, comprehensive tagging management, more settings, better se…

I've been a Feedly user since GoogleReader shutdown and i've recently been working on my own news aggregator / rss reader because i wanted to have my rss feeds and also a GoogleNews-like view of the news of the day in the same app. If you have some time to spare, i'd love to have your feedback!

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

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Post by [deleted] »

dageshi wrote: post #121
mandelbulb wrote: post #104

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Not true at all. Alternatives were already available when Google Reader(GR) closed, i.e. July 2013. Inoreader, which was feature-complete in regards to GR, was launched a month after the announcement in March. That's why Feedly hogged most of the momentum as it was released in 2008 already. I would say Google Reader's discontinuation actually increased the popularity of RSS. The protocol was big news for a few weeks,…

Op's example is a textbook example of what happened to me. I used to have a lot of RSS feeds in Google Reader, when it closed I never moved anywhere else because at the time there wasn't an obvious alternative.

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

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Post by b__d »

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

Also early supporter here. For the great product/service I even voluntarily increaced my subscription rate, because $2 (what it started with) a month seemed way too cheap to me, especially for a heavy user like me. Still love it.
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