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Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by CountHackulus »

iscrewyou wrote: post #3
newscracker wrote: post #2

Apple 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?

Just going to pimp https://theoldreader.com/ which mimics the old Google Reader UI down to the shortcuts. I don't think I could live without it and gladly pay my yearly membership for the premium version even if I don't actually need it.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by Yuioup »

zippergz wrote: post #148
Yuioup wrote: post #147

Seriously people, Apple is a has-been. It's getting really sad now.

If you think RSS support has any bearing whatsoever on a company's success, I don't know what to tell you.....

Apple taking away features willy nilly in order to look cool is getting really sad.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by catalogia »

reaperducer wrote: post #66
LeoPanthera wrote: post #12

Honestly 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.

IME, the thumbs don't do anything. The only way to have a real affect on your news feed is to block channels. For example, I follow the Chicago Sun-Times. And every day Apple News shows me the Sun-Times horoscope. And every day I give it a thumb's down. Every. Single. Day. 400+ thumbs later, it still shows up every day.

What a waste. It would be trivial (and effective!) to simply implement a bayesian "spam" filter that operates on the text of headlines to promote or demote headlines according to user rankings. This could be done completely on-device with utterly negligible power draw.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by kevinyew »

blotter_paper wrote: post #130
DocG wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It asks first time - do you want to open it and should it remember your choice. Later you can set default in android settings or remove the yt app default setting. It's buried in there somewhere.

I had an old Galaxy S6 Active sitting around, so I just did a factory reset and didn't sign into any accounts. I opened Chrome and searched for "keyboard cat" using the URL bar. I tapped on the first result, and it opened the YouTube app without any user prompt from Chrome. This is on Android 6.0.1, and I'll give you that this could theoretically be a Samsung specific modification, but that doesn't seem like the simp…

It's likely that it already had that default association set up out of the box. If you open up the system App Info screen for YouTube, you should see a section that says "Set as default", and when you open that, it shows you which URLs it hijacks under "Supported web addresses", but in that same screen there should be a "Go to supported URLs" option, where you can choose "In this app", "Ask every time", or "In other app".

I am running Android 10 so it's possible it looks different on Android 6.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by greglindahl »

ljm wrote: post #135
asdff wrote: post #78

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MacOS doesn't even hijack what you want it to hijack. I have to set every .sh I make to open in text edit manually, and I still sometimes get prompts to search the app store for an app to deal with these spooky .sh files even with textedit listed as default on the right click menu.

I love how, once you install Xcode, it becomes the default editor for a load of plain text formats. Yes Apple, I really do need to boot up a full blown, 7GB+ sized IDE to edit some markdown. Apparently TextEdit wasn't good enough.

If you aren't outraged that emacs or vi aren't the default, are you sure you're a typical HN reader?!

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by damnyou »

duskwuff wrote: post #73
damnyou wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a position you're put into with WhatsApp or any other app. It is bad for your messaging to be made by the same company as your phone. Some really problematic conflicts of interest.

> It's not a position you're put into with WhatsApp or any other app. Sure it is! You can't continue a group conversation from WhatsApp -- or any other messenger, really -- on another messenger service without manually recreating the group. There is literally nothing which makes iMessage unique in this regard.

Well yeah but it's not tied to the operating system of your phone manufacturer!

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by damnyou »

jdjdjjsjs wrote: post #146
disintegore wrote: post #84

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> There is literally nothing which makes iMessage unique in this regard. Except for the vendor lock-in, which makes this a problem to begin with. Other services work on a majority of devices.

Then your complaint is about Apple locking iMessage to Apple devices. Which is a legitimate complaint especially since Apple had said they would be opening it up (or was that FaceTime...I'm not sure). But that's a wholly different complaint from the fact that Apple, like nearly every other messaging service, does not allow you to export groups to other services.

It's not "wholly different"! It's distinct but deeply related.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by catalogia »

dragonwriter wrote: post #150
catalogia wrote: post #149

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> Apple Maps is still pretty far behind Google Maps. Both fall well short of OSM for topics other than finding local businesses. OSM gives me incredible detail, even telling me where water fountains and benches are in the local park. Meanwhile Google Maps doesn't even recognize the restricted access road running through the park, let alone any of the walking trails, let alone any water fountains, benches, etc. If you…

> If you can't drive a car on it or through it or to it, Google thinks it may as well not exist. That may seem to be true some places, but I've seen many places (including around my house) where Google has great coverage of nameless walking and biking trails that aren't open to cars.

Have you compared Google's and OSM's maps of those locations side by side? I wager OSM has much more detail. This is the case even for public parks located in the middle of major American west coast cities (where I would expect Google to have good coverage, if they had it anywhere.)

Consider for instance this city park in Seattle:

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6397466,-122.2948284,18.95z

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/47.63987/-122.29488&la...

Google has gotten better in recent years, it now has a few of the walking trails, but compared to OSM it's still absolutely pitiful. Even in high profile locations like Yellowstone National Park, Google Maps is pitiful compared to OSM:

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.3925569,-110.5541906,18z

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/44.39273/-110.55472&la...

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by airza »

benjaminjackman wrote: post #95
greiskul wrote: post #83

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Yup, and it's also something that all apps can request, and the user is always asked for their preference until they say 'don't ask again'.

There really needs to be an always ask next to don’t ask again.

There is in the newest version of android!

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by mulmen »

asdff wrote: post #80
damnyou wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are in an iMessage group chat and you switch to Android, you need to create a new group chat to continue talking to your friends.

This function even harms iOS only groupchats. I walk to an area of low reception and try and message the group chat, it defaults as an sms due to the poor signal and breaks the group in the same way. Not sure what advantages an imessage vs sms groupchat even give me in this era of unlimited texting. Pretty hearts?

Well iMessage works over wifi so if you don't have cell service it is handy. I just got home from visiting family and their local airport has no cell service.
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