Ask HN: Do you still use RSS? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by sco1 » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC

Yes, and will continue to use it until support for it dies or someone comes up with a better way to aggregate things I actually care about reading into a simple interface. Hopefully the latter comes first :)

I was sad when Google killed Reader, but Inoreader has been a great alternative for my daily use.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by donatj » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC

I stopped for a while after Google reader died, but a couple years ago I started feeling like I was missing things and happily picked RSS back up.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by bhaak » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC

Of course. Podcasts are the one "hidden" usage of RSS that many people don't know about.

That's actually how it should be. RSS is a "machine talks to another machine" thing.

I have an IRC bot that relays RSS feeds into IRC channels: https://github.com/bhaak/cinchfeed2ircbot

I also have a little static pages generator that fetches RSS feeds and turns them into minimalistic web pages to read through on mobile devices. I have to clean that up somewhat for putting on "Show HN" these days.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by modernerd » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:25 PM UTC

Yes, I consume:

1. Twitter via Twitter lists using Feedbin: https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-...

2. Email newsletters via RSS (also thanks to Feedbin): https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl...

3. HN via hnrss.org[†]

4. Reddit via subreddit RSS. (Just add .rss after the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang.rss )

5. A small selection of hand-curated blogs and friends' sites.

If the firehose ever seems too overwhelming (>200 new items), I generally just skim the titles for stand-out items and then mark all as read guilt-free.

[†] For example:

- hnrss.org/newest?points=50

- hnrss.org/whoishiring/jobs/?q=React

- hnrss.org/replies/?id=youruserid

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by nakadaole » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:26 PM UTC

Yes,actually RSS becomes more powerful today

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by aurora72 » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:26 PM UTC

Mrat wrote: post #3

Actually, no. But I consider it a useful and unexpensive feature so I'll support it on my blog nevertheless.

Kudos. In 00's there was print version, a very convenient feature. They are actually needed mpre today. Not just for printers of course. For the real content, wo banners, ads and crap :

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by alkonaut » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:27 PM UTC

No.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by stanski » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:27 PM UTC

Just going to plug Tiny Tiny RSS here since no one else has mentioned it: https://tt-rss.org/

It's a PHP-based server-side reader with lots of customizations and great Android support.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by Fnoord » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:28 PM UTC

I use self-hosted Feedbin. This ensures the profiling is not done by the third party which hosts the state of sync as a service, and it barely uses resources anyway.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 3:28 PM UTC

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