Why is this a downloadable app instead of a web app? It's built entirely using web technology. I think RSS belongs in my browser, so I can easily access it from whatever computer I might be using.
Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS
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#12For a company who wants to "#ReviveRSS", the Stream site seems to avoid the word "RSS" like the plague except in this new blog post.
Do they support RSS in their service, and if so does this product use their service for RSS feed polling, etc.?
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#13To "revive" RSS, wider support from content providers is needed, not from software to consume feeds.
Can't display a feed that doesn't exist!
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#14Why is this a downloadable app instead of a web app? It's built entirely using web technology. I think RSS belongs in my browser, so I can easily access it from whatever computer I might be using.
This is a great point; however, we wanted to bring the user experience to the desktop. You are more than welcome to submit a PR to make this application web compatible.
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#15Did RSS ever go away? Almost all of the blogs I follow still have RSS feeds. Maybe I'm just in a bubble. I think the decline in relative importance of RSS is certainly real, but that's more an effect of people getting their information from more centralized sources (like HN).
I don't think many sites removed RSS, but many new sites and services in the last ~5 years, never implemented or served it in the first place. The typical share icons now are FB, Instagram, and Twitter. Email is less common (although usually there's an email newsletter signup). For a while, there wouldn't be link to RSS on the page, but you could still find the .rss or .atom link in the HTML header. But a lot of times that's not there anymore either.
It makes me sad to have to settle for Liking a company's FB page, since it's up to FB whether or not I ever see it.
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#16I like #ReviveRSS but: > Powered By: Stream, Algolia, MongoDB, SendGrid, AWS My feed reader is an old PHP script running on a NUC.
Agreed; it's impossible to self-host and is therefore a non-starter.
For what it's worth, I've been pretty happy with FreshRSS (https://freshrss.org/)
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#17For a company who wants to "#ReviveRSS", the Stream site seems to avoid the word "RSS" like the plague except in this new blog post. Do they support RSS in their service, and if so does this product use their service for RSS feed polling, etc.?
Stream is an API for building activity feeds. You use it when you want to follow things in your application. Another use case is notification feeds. RSS readers are a tiny fraction of our customer base, but it's something we care about. API tour is here: https://getstream.io/get_started/
Currently Stream powers the feeds for over 300 million end users, Stackshare did a nice post about our tech:
https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-ov...
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#18Why can't I upload OPML file? App does nothing when I upload it.
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#19This makes me weep. We are returning to RSS _because_ of dumb over-engineering web apps. The solution is not a dumb over-engineered web-based RSS reader.
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#20To "revive" RSS, wider support from content providers is needed, not from software to consume feeds. Can't display a feed that doesn't exist!
It's a circle that right now is spiraling the wrong direction. I hope that the community can come together and improve the user experience around RSS. This in turn will help show the value of RSS to publishers. The current user experience around RSS isn't always very use friendly. On the other hand, the people that care about RSS are designers, developers and journalists. We should be able to turn the tide.