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That’s one of the reasons I have Telemetry turned on. Just to show what I am using, so there’s less reasons to remove something.
Do you think that's what telemetry is actually used for?
...yes?
Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#192RSS is dead... long since dead. There are a myriad of reasons why it died. 1. People don't want you to use RSS. They want you to visit their site so they make money from ads. 2. Only a small percentage of users care about RSS. 3. DRY (don't repeat yourself) principle. The RSS feed often breaks an no one really knows about it. Source: Me... I was one of the inventors of RSS and run an feed SaaS platform which only has…
RSS is very much alive and kicking. It has only lost its status among mainstream users.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#193RSS seems to have died off as social networks decided that they wanted to capture the users and vertically integrate. RSS turns them into commodities, and that's the opposite of what they want. Plus it's difficult to monetize an RSS feed.
RSS isn't dead. Smart bloggers will always expose an RSS feed, because readers following your RSS feed are more likely to read your blog than traffic from other sources. Having an RSS feed is the slightly weaker version of the mailing lists. Mail which is also going strong — and the easiest way to build a mailing list btw, is to connect your RSS feed to Mailchimp. And RSS feeds are mandatory for podcasts too. Some bl…
And even if the RSS feeds are not used a lot by the majority of the audience, I wouldn't be surprised if it helped bring in other audiences. I feel like RSS users are more likely power users and may be more a bit more interested in the site than most users.
I personally know that a lot of the RSS feeds I am subscribed to I also end up sharing articles with friends. I see these articles early and quick and help create early discussion about them and comment early on them often first. I feel like overall RSS feed users may not directly look hugely beneficial to a site, but can have other impacts hard to track.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#194I don't get why everyone here is complaining about RSS dying. It still exists. Almost every blog platform and news/content website publishes RSS feeds. There are some great apps for reading feeds on desktop and mobile (including features like offline syncing). There are a bunch of RSS add-ons for Chrome and Firefox. Slack natively supports piping feeds into a channel. You can even build RSS workflows with Zapier or I…
Without being in the zeitgeist, it's liable to disappear as time goes by.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#195I completely agree with this sentiment. Mastodon, or whatever, is fine but RSS is the backbone of blogging. It always annoys me when sites request permissions to send me notifications - hey idiots, if I like your site I'll subscribe using your RSS feed and read at my pleasure. You don't have one? Bye then. In my perfect world browsers have RSS support built in and aggregators like Facebook would allow RSS feeds to be…
The biggest problem with this model is a lot of RSS feeds only return the latest 5 or so items. So if you haven't opened your RSS reader in some time you might miss the other 10 items they published since you were last on. Google Reader was awesome because it solved this problem, but like all great things from Google it came with an expiration date.
A Feed reader "requires" a server component, it's true that client-side only feed readers are very limited, unless you never leave you computer offline.
I'm a happy user of Miniflux (hosted myself), but there are many alternatives. https://miniflux.app/
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#196Having struggled with RSS in the past, I will give a few reasons of why I ended up removing RSS from my blog: 1. RSS traffic trickled down to almost nothing. Hardly anyone uses RSS any more as a daily reader^1. 2. Spammers were using my RSS feed to wholesale copy the content from my blog. Identical copies of my blog went up in several different locations, each with their own copy of ads from the scammers. Some of the…
I mean, if you remove your feed, you probably lose me as a reader.
Wouldn't lose me though. I don't use RSS, and never have.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#197What do people use to read RSS feeds? I stopped following RSS feeds ever since Google Reader shut down, and wondering what a good free replacement is.
QuiteRSS. It handles my 1MB opml list of RSS feeds fairly easily. Native clients for many OSes.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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I have the problem that those meta links are kind of useless nowadays because Firefox removed the possibility to use Navigator.registerContentHandler() so I could redirect from the Feed button in the Firefox UI to TT-RSS. Now the button in the UI let's me download the Feed resource which doesn't make sense.
I believe the rss:// protocol could (still can?) be used to shell out to your reader.
Nobody uses the rss:// protocol in their .
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
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That's a great idea. I would definitely use a service like that.
I think other people in this thread are running services that do a similar thing. My crisis of conscience was around storing the full text of the articles on my own server and then presenting them as a new feed on my domain, e.g. https://mydomain.com/feeds/eurogamer.xml Everything in the feed is that gets generated is exactly the same as the original feed (canonical link to the actual article, publsh date, author etc…
It's likely that unless you can claim status as a library or some other exception to copyright protections, as a commercial entity providing that service without compensating publishers, such a straightforward violation would get a bunch of takedown requests and eventual lawsuits for failure to respond to those requests, along with more suits if publishers have no easy way of opting out.
As a personal tool you built for yourself and your friend(s) nerdy enough to understand it, I wouldn’t worry too much about it, as long as no search engines index your site and no one finds out about it.
Re: Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
#200I am surprised when people keep saying here that RSS is dead. I am using it more than ever, every site (including hn news) configured by topic in Inoreader. I even have reddit feeds within it via inline reddit. This way I can see my read/unread counts and mark favorites. I can also quickly export my feeds. It works cross device and it's the only source I use for news, articles or anything else I read on web. If site…
Just because you have kept using RSS doesn't mean that the community has grown or even that it has stayed constant in size. Interest in RSS (or at least the best proxy I could find, Google searches for "RSS") has been steadily declining since ~2006[1].
> If site doesn't have RSS that's shame and I probably never visit it again.
Assuming RSS continues to decline, I imagine that more and more sites will stop supporting it.
[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=rss
Disclaimer: Googler if it matters. All opinions are my own.