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Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by grumph »

vsund wrote: post #20
cyborgx7 wrote: post #12

How come noone has managed to crack the RSS rock yet? Everything has an RSS feed (though it's decreasing). Rss readers have more content than any social network. It seems like you should be able to build something with this that has broad adoption. There has to be something missing. My theory has been for a while that what is missing is publishing. People don't just want to consume, they also want to share what they…

This is exactly what I don't understand about all the feed readers out there. It seems so obvious that the next step for feed readers would be social interactions like sharing, also it would be to easy to add I guess. Additionally the aspect of consuming YouTube via RSS feed. Feed readers could simply add small logic which transforms a given YouTube account into one of https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel…

You can add the RSS feed of a youtube channel with the Tiny Tiny RSS bookmarklet, it's working for most channels, but not all for a reason I don't understand yet.

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by solarkraft »

vsund wrote: post #20
cyborgx7 wrote: post #12

How come noone has managed to crack the RSS rock yet? Everything has an RSS feed (though it's decreasing). Rss readers have more content than any social network. It seems like you should be able to build something with this that has broad adoption. There has to be something missing. My theory has been for a while that what is missing is publishing. People don't just want to consume, they also want to share what they…

This is exactly what I don't understand about all the feed readers out there. It seems so obvious that the next step for feed readers would be social interactions like sharing, also it would be to easy to add I guess. Additionally the aspect of consuming YouTube via RSS feed. Feed readers could simply add small logic which transforms a given YouTube account into one of https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel…

Feedly?

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by zouhair »

captn3m0 wrote: post #5

I was so happy at seeing telegram, but it requires admin rights to the channel. There is so much content (a lot of it non-english) hidden away in telegram channels that I want to be part of the open web. If someone wants to take it up, it is definitely doable with a telegram user account, but the APIs are not readily usable: https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas#telegram-to-rss Also, if someone is looking to follow lots…

Nice. Most of you would know but some won't, some GitHub pages come with RSS feeds.[0]

[0]: https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub/releases.atom

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by disiplus »

gsich wrote: post #16
disiplus wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

telegram has this shitty feature where if anybody knows your public username they can add you to any group they want. this is the source of the shitty spam on telegram right now. i was active in the crypto space and my username leaked. im now added to ton of spam and pump groups daily and i cannot block it. also you dont need admin rights to the channel, but you have to work with https://core.telegram.org/mtproto to…

How is this different to other messages where your phone number is the username? Last I checked this was possible with Whatsapp too.

your phone number is not your username on telegram. the username on telegram is like a handle on twitter, with the difference that on telegram you dont have to have a username. you can message anybody in your contacts without username. but if you chose to have a username on telegram that username is public, and searchable. and the worst part is that anybody can add your username to any channel.

so tltr: username on telegram is something you chose and not your phone number.

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by AltruisticGap »

cyborgx7 wrote: post #12

How come noone has managed to crack the RSS rock yet? Everything has an RSS feed (though it's decreasing). Rss readers have more content than any social network. It seems like you should be able to build something with this that has broad adoption. There has to be something missing. My theory has been for a while that what is missing is publishing. People don't just want to consume, they also want to share what they…

Simple:

- most RSS readers suck so bad you can't even retrieve years old articles. So if you follow blogs that don't post often, you simply can NOT get any of their older posts. Imagine a blog that has one seriously good article once a month. Typically you can't get more than a year's worth of posts, so that's like 12 articles. Why?

- the best RSS app I had on iPad let me archive feeds for a LONG time. I used it as a kind of a library. Returned to articles many times (philosophy and such). Most RSS readers out there have ZERO functionality in terms of archiving content indefinitely. (meaning : they typically have some leeway in max articles stored, or how old to archive feeds.. but you know you simply can not realy on the app to save your favorite articels, at some point they will be deleted).

- inability to highlight text. Again, if I read something I want to be able to at least highlight some text. Most RSS readers don't do this.

Instead RSS readers do the same thing every other RSS reader does. Basically, it's like the developers of RSS apps think that the only purpose of retrieving articles is for fueling some kind of "feed" addiction. Like the only purpose of content on the web is to satisfy an urge to quick scan and move to the nex article.

It's like the devs of RSS apps are so drugged out themselves in this day and age of short attention span, that they can't envision other uses for a feed reader than satisfying this urge for the daily/hourly doses of "novelty". Click click click. Swipe swipe swipe.

/rant off

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by zaarn »

Aelius wrote: post #17
zaarn wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly, they have bridges for some websites that do have RSS feeds (Steam, Youtube and HN)... Maybe because the feeds are hard to find?

I use YouTube RSS and the most annoying thing is that it doesn't use the conventional date stamp, which is very annoying. That's a problem worth fixing.

Humm, I don't think I had this be a problem. Likely TTRSS ignores this issue and/or just parses the timestamp until numbers come out.

Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by [deleted] »

AltruisticGap wrote: post #25
cyborgx7 wrote: post #12

How come noone has managed to crack the RSS rock yet? Everything has an RSS feed (though it's decreasing). Rss readers have more content than any social network. It seems like you should be able to build something with this that has broad adoption. There has to be something missing. My theory has been for a while that what is missing is publishing. People don't just want to consume, they also want to share what they…

Simple: - most RSS readers suck so bad you can't even retrieve years old articles. So if you follow blogs that don't post often, you simply can NOT get any of their older posts. Imagine a blog that has one seriously good article once a month. Typically you can't get more than a year's worth of posts, so that's like 12 articles. Why? - the best RSS app I had on iPad let me archive feeds for a LONG time. I used it as a…

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Re: RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

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Post by lozf »

disiplus wrote: post #11
captn3m0 wrote: post #5

I was so happy at seeing telegram, but it requires admin rights to the channel. There is so much content (a lot of it non-english) hidden away in telegram channels that I want to be part of the open web. If someone wants to take it up, it is definitely doable with a telegram user account, but the APIs are not readily usable: https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas#telegram-to-rss Also, if someone is looking to follow lots…

telegram has this shitty feature where if anybody knows your public username they can add you to any group they want. this is the source of the shitty spam on telegram right now. i was active in the crypto space and my username leaked. im now added to ton of spam and pump groups daily and i cannot block it. also you dont need admin rights to the channel, but you have to work with https://core.telegram.org/mtproto to…

In Telegram: "Settings, Security, Groups" has options to allow everyone or just your contacts to add you to groups. Contacts alone is usually adequate, but you can add exceptions.
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