Remember when Twitter offered RSS feeds? It made the service actually useful.
RSS Is Better Than Twitter
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Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can usually click the link to the article which opens it in the browser (if the feed reader itself isn't in the browser to begin with), and if you're logged in to that site (or the commenting system or ID provider they use) you can comment right away. As for displaying comments along with articles, feeds can reference other feeds, and in theory nothing stops an application or website from from making use of that.
I've implemented displaying of blog posts comments in BazQux Reader ( https://bazqux.com ) years ago. But in general it works well only for niche sites with good communities. Popular sites have too many spam/bullshit in comments. BTW: it's possible to read Twitter in RSS reader too and make it a "slow web".
How are you fetching the comments? RSS has no support for that as far as I know.
Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter
#43There are some things I like to follow on twitter, but I wanted them integrated in my RSS feed setup, so a few months ago I wrote a simple app which gates twitter to rss, and which can be deployed as a Google Cloud Function. If anyone is interested: https://www.grepular.com/Twitter_to_RSS_with_Google_Cloud_Fu...
There is also https://www.twitrss.me/
Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter
#44Wow, sexism and bigotry ;( ;( ;( Close down Twitter now!
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#45I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. But they'd need to invest a little bit to make it easy to subscribe—similar to following on Twitter/Instagram or Liking pages on Facebook—to receive site updates. Having to find and enter byzantine URLs is not the way to go althou…
Why not Google? Google failed to gain traction in the social network space with G+. If you can't beat them commoditize them! Why not make interoperable networks based on open standards first class citizens in chrome/chromium? Not just by adding support but also by helping move the RSS standard forward.
Google used to own the most used RSS feed subscription service.
They shut it down.
So, not Google.
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#46Lately, I've been getting back into RSS to stay up to date with industry news. I've noticed a lot of industry blogs still support RSS.
On Mac, I've been using Leaf with no real complaints.
I've found many blogs happily serve rss content, even if a button isn't explicitly advertised. Some of the url's I'll try:
* example.com/rss.xml
* example.com/index.rss
* example.com/?feed=rss
* example.com/feed/
* exmample.com/feed/rss
Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter
#47Lately, I've been getting back into RSS to stay up to date with industry news. I've noticed a lot of industry blogs still support RSS. On Mac, I've been using Leaf with no real complaints. I've found many blogs happily serve rss content, even if a button isn't explicitly advertised. Some of the url's I'll try: * example.com/rss.xml * example.com/index.rss * example.com/?feed=rss * example.com/feed/ * exmample.com/fee…
There’s a couple safari extensions on the store that will do that for you. I use rssfind.
Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter
#48Lately, I've been getting back into RSS to stay up to date with industry news. I've noticed a lot of industry blogs still support RSS. On Mac, I've been using Leaf with no real complaints. I've found many blogs happily serve rss content, even if a button isn't explicitly advertised. Some of the url's I'll try: * example.com/rss.xml * example.com/index.rss * example.com/?feed=rss * example.com/feed/ * exmample.com/fee…
> Some of the url's I'll try
Try just the domain in Leaf; it might autodetect the feed URL. I use Reeder[1], and that method never failed me.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can anyone comment on why Mozilla is integrating dodgy services like Pocket and now some ill-conceived screenshot web locker? Is it just hunger for data as revenue?
Not really related, but does anyone know of an open source Pocket alternative?
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Re: RSS Is Better Than Twitter
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox used to have built-in RSS support, but it was removed in Firefox 64: https://www.zdnet.com/article/end-nears-for-rss-firefox-64-t...
Wow I never knew. I would have used it if I knew.
The "rss support" was a folder, filled with links named after the article titles.
It was good that it was removed, as it was useless to put it mildly