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Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
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Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#22This is a great initiative. Feeds need to be promoted with the wider public, or they will gradually and silently disappear. Really like your starter packs. > Are you sick of big websites trying to decide what you should see, despite what you’ve subscribed to? Sick of "the algorithm" shuffling what order you get told of things, if at all? Most people nowadays consume news from social media (Facebook), and are not trul…
Yeah, part of what kicked this whole project off was seeing the news of native RSS support being removed from Firefox. I thought to myself "I have to do something about this"
Sub-pages not present on the navigation menu might be a good idea. I'll definitely look into that.
I'm staying anonymous because I want the focus to be on the content, not me. (That, and I don't want some crazy who wants the enemy half of the Fightbox eliminated tracking me down.)
EDIT: I think I fixed it. Maybe. What site you you mean by "LI"?
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#23If you want to take it a step further, add some links feed readers that run as browser plugins. Unlike hosted services, they're not as likely to disappear, and they have a low barrier to entry since they don't require any sign up. I've been working on one that runs in Firefox[1], but there are many others that look promising for Chrome as well. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re...
Interesting. How's this one going to handle the upcoming removal of native feed support from Firefox? Have you written a parser?
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#24I'm in the middle of rebuilding my own online feed reader (converting it from old asp to php) and as such I've been doing a fair bit of online reading about the current state of RSS.
There are many sites out there promoting RSS, but they are all islands of their own content. If this initiative of getting RSS more visibility is to succeed then either someone needs to link to all the sites (like a webring or index of sorts), or they all need to get together to cross promote themselves.
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#25Loved this a lot :)
Thanks a lot for making this. A couple of small suggestions (do proceed ahead with them if they make sense):
Add Android feed readers in the navigation menu.
Also allow folks to suggest good sites (Add my site or even a simple trello board will do) that have good content and also RSS support.
All you have to do now is to curate the site submitted and make more of really usable starter packs.
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#26I recall I stopped using RSS feeds when Google pulled the plug on the reader. I couldn't find anything that was as convenient and I don't really want to pay for yet another subscription as I have too many of those as it is.
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#27Loved this a lot :) Thanks a lot for making this. A couple of small suggestions (do proceed ahead with them if they make sense): Add Android feed readers in the navigation menu. Also allow folks to suggest good sites (Add my site or even a simple trello board will do) that have good content and also RSS support. All you have to do now is to curate the site submitted and make more of really usable starter packs.
Thanks!
https://www.youneedfeeds.com/news/2018/9/9/you-need-feeds-is...
I don't actually have an android device myself, so I'm not really capable of evaluating the readers in that ecosystem. I do want to take suggestions though! (Maybe I should just make the page, but as a stub page redirecting to the blog post.)
As I mentioned at the end of the starter packs page, I'm taking suggestions via the About page. I didn't think of a Trello board, though - that's worth looking into.
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#28It's a great initiative, but I'm pessimist about this. I tried to introduce colleagues to RSS and the reaction I got was "why would I want this, it's inferior to twitter, non interactive etc etc". So it went over the head of those whimsical people, it's possible that I could have explained it better although at that point when they accused me of pushing "obsolete technology" I did not bother anymore. Even to the point where I said that RSS feed on the marketing website needs some improvements the reaction was that it would harm the "social media presence".
My reaction was: "So we are cutting the branch we're sitting on, keep calm and carry on".
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#29I recall I stopped using RSS feeds when Google pulled the plug on the reader. I couldn't find anything that was as convenient and I don't really want to pay for yet another subscription as I have too many of those as it is.
https://www.youneedfeeds.com/web-based/
Feedly (and others) have free tiers available. It's worth a shot again - especially for zero dollars.
Re: Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh, interesting! How do you think your site compares to say, Feed43?
Haven’t heard of them before, I know there are some tools to generate feeds by selecting elements on the page and then the tool figures everything. One of the tools I tried didn’t work for the site I needed it for and so I just wrote it myself, mostly for fun.
Feed43 is based around pattern matching - it mostly assumes a well-structured HTML document with predictable tags, and it's that method for every site.
You seem to have some sort of custom plugin architecture, I guess?