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I use feedly now. Which is pretty good. For me having it has a web site is most useful, rather than a device oriented thing that manages feeds.
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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 po…
Sortof, if you are reading via a web based reader, the service itself only reads the feed once, and the users view the cached version.
It won't ever come back because there's no monetary incentive for people to share content. Just the opposite in fact.
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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.
> 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 use rss-bridge in combination with rss2email to follow instagram feeds after leaving instagram.
Is there an app/service that does the following?: * Has a feed a la RSS readers * Allows items on that feed (from all the sources) to be earmarked * At the end of reviewing the unread items of the feed, summarise a 'checkout' of earmarked items * Sends a payment to each of the publications for the content earmarked * Compiles the content into a consumable format such as kindle, PDF or download for mobile I can only t…
Question: why am I constantly hearing about RSS and never Atom? Isn't Atom newer and supposedly better? Are the two basically interchangeable, or did Atom never catch on enough that people want to revive it?
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Site creators have the freedom to produce what they want, and users likewise have the freedom to consume how they want.
Do they? I'm fairly certain they don't. Otherwise everyone would just be torrenting and stripping commercials.
Not aware of any anti-user-made RSS laws, though.