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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

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Post by tunesmith »

skrause wrote: post #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…

A site should still be able to choose to not produce RSS if they don't want. Encouraging RSS is different than forcing RSS feeds on sites that don't want them.

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

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Post by catach »

k1ns wrote: post #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

Related: Firefox still offers an RSS button that you can place in a toolbar. Lights up when a site has a feed available.

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

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Post by catach »

tunesmith wrote: post #31
skrause wrote: post #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…

A site should still be able to choose to not produce RSS if they don't want. Encouraging RSS is different than forcing RSS feeds on sites that don't want them.

Site creators have the freedom to produce what they want, and users likewise have the freedom to consume how they want.

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

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Post by jessriedel »

skrause wrote: post #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…

For reasons I don't understand, it remains incredibly difficult to scrape a well-organized blog and turn it into something I can consume like RSS or a kindle book.

Note that many/most WordPress RSS feeds aren't that useful because they only show a snippet rather than the entire post. This dreary state of affairs is due in part to the fact that "checking" an RSS just means downloading the entire file containing all posts the author would like to make public, regardless of how many are new to the reader. This insanely unnecessary bandwidth usage penalizes sites that have long (>10) feeds with complete posts. (The single RSS file on my blog takes up the majority of my bandwidth costs.)

RSS needs to be replaced, not revived.

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

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Post by JelteF »

barakm wrote: post #16
jeena wrote: post #2

I 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/ )

All these services have free plans either if you have little traffic or if it's open source. So it's definitely possible to self host this (although maybe not completely trivial).

Disclaimer: I work at Stream (but haven't really worked on Winds)

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

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Post by eli »

skrause wrote: post #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…

There are a few of those: http://www.feedsapi.com/ and http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/

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

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Post by theDoug »

skrause wrote: post #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 was hoping for the same. Still see no answer on how this does anything to support their claim that "It’s time to turn the tide"
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