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Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

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Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

#21
> I love using RSS to follow the programming and tech news I care about. Unfortunately, the number of sites supporting RSS has been in rapid decline over the last few years. The reader ecosystem is slowly degrading as well.

After that introduction I was hoping Winds would be some kind of proxy that creates an RSS for sites that don't have one. But well, it's just another RSS reader. Those have actually never gone way, I'm using Inoreader every day.

Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

#22
Just a friendly PSA that WordPress comes with RSS feeds enabled by default. Since an overwhelming majority of content websites use WordPress, I think it's safe to say RSS is still widely available. Try going to your favorite blog and append "?feed=rss2" to the end of the URL. Like so:

http://example.com/?feed=rss2

Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

#25
post #11

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.

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.

Yeah, great passive aggressive way of dismissing a absolutely valid point.

Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah, great passive aggressive way of dismissing a absolutely valid point.

Yeah, 3 downvotes in 60 seconds. Totally not brigading here.

Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

#27

Did 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 can tell by my experience of building https://telescope.surf, a lot of the sites are killing RSS or simply not linking it from any of their pages. I had to build crawlers for a lot of the sites.

Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, great passive aggressive way of dismissing a absolutely valid point.

Yeah, 3 downvotes in 60 seconds. Totally not brigading here.

Your comment broke the HN guidelines, so it was properly downvoted. This one too. Could you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all? We're hoping for something a bit better here.

Re: Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

#29
post #11

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.

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.

What currently makes it incompatible? I'm not well versed in Electron so I can't see exactly where it hooks in and how it is needed.
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