Flipboard is better than any news app I’ve used
I've never used it.
Why do you like Flipboard? Why do you dislike other news apps?
How much does it cost? If it's free, how do they monetise?
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
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Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#12Honestly I didn't even know that you could add RSS feeds to Apple News.
But I already stopped using it, because no matter how often I thumbed-up real news, and thumbed-down clickbait and ads, the "front page" was always a frustrating mix of mostly clickbait and ads.
I currently use the Google News app on my iPhone for "real" headline news, but I'm not super happy about it.
Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#13Apple News was already flakey and unreliable in the sources (websites) it would allow to be added. With its highly limited geographical availability (years after launching) and its problematic focus on News+, I switched back to a plain RSS Reader to follow specific sites. Apple News seems like a niche product with hardly any technical effort put into it. In comparison, Google News, with its ads, generally looks like…
Which RSS reader do you use?
I have a script run rsstail via cron to catch updates and email it to Gmail for reading/review
Email is HTML formatted how I want, and Gmail will probably not be deprecated any time soon.
Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#14Not to minimize the concern over further erosion of RSS support, but I was surprised Apple News supported it at all. I follow a lot of media people on Twitter — a group who arguably is as still vocal (if not more) about Google Reader’s demise as tech people — and I can’t recall any of them mentioning using Apple News as an RSS reader (and just did a Twitter history search for “Apple news rss” to confirm my offhand guess). Was the functionality to add RSS buried or otherwise hindered?
That said, I already long ago followed the author’s advice to “uninstall/remove Apple News”. The app experience was so terrible (at the time, at least) that I hated being sent to it when clicking tweeted links that were shared from Apple News.
Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#15Apple News was already flakey and unreliable in the sources (websites) it would allow to be added. With its highly limited geographical availability (years after launching) and its problematic focus on News+, I switched back to a plain RSS Reader to follow specific sites. Apple News seems like a niche product with hardly any technical effort put into it. In comparison, Google News, with its ads, generally looks like…
Which RSS reader do you use?
Not the OP, but I've never found anything faster than the Livemarks plugin for quickly scanning headlines from all of your favorite sites with a quick mouseover in your browser's bookmark toolbar.
Livemarks (or the Chrome/Vivaldi equivalent 'Foxish live RSS') was released after Firefox killed off their Live Bookmarks feature a year or so ago.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxish-live-rss/jp...
Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#16Apple News was already flakey and unreliable in the sources (websites) it would allow to be added. With its highly limited geographical availability (years after launching) and its problematic focus on News+, I switched back to a plain RSS Reader to follow specific sites. Apple News seems like a niche product with hardly any technical effort put into it. In comparison, Google News, with its ads, generally looks like…
I was under the impression that Google News didn't have ads. At least I can't recall ever seeing ads on the news.google.com site (the Google Feed on Android is another story, that thing is riddled with ads now).
Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#17If you want RSS on Macos, take a look at Netnewswire: https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
#18The weirdest thing about this is that Apple News still hijacks links to Atom/RSS feeds - so if you click on one of those links in Mobile Safari you'll be bounced to the News app, which will then display an error. Here's a video I recorded of this behaviour: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1210622908143415297 I think I'd rather they displayed a dump of ugly XML in the browser, just so I could copy and paste the URL…
What’s even worse if you click on a podcast link, it will take you to News and then it takes you to podcasts.
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Not the OP, but https://bazqux.com/ is very nice.
Is there a self-hosted RSS reader that does feed de-summarization, like BazQux seems to do?
The only one I know is: https://fivefilters.org/content-only/
It works for all the major sites but it is paid but with self-hosting option.
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Which RSS reader do you use?
I use a terminal RSS reader called newsboat[1][2], which is an actively developed fork of newsbeuter. It's pretty feature rich, fast, keyboard-oriented (supporting vi movement keys), and works great in the terminal. Another great thing about it is that it runs completely on my own machine, so I don't have to give away information about my reading preferences to any third party, as would be the case for any hosted RSS…
I love newsbeuter, it's how I get all latest news about the death of RSS :)