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

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by hopesthoughts » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

alefteris wrote: post #71

Yes. I'm subscribed to 170 feeds using the Newsblur app. I started using feeds with Google Reader. When it was shutdown, I self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS for a while, hosted using a cloud provider's free plan. After some time and a server out of disk space disaster, I didn't want to bother with hosting it myself anymore. So I tried other services like Digg Reader, The Old Reader and Feedly. I finally settled on using News…

Well, that's what services like Query Feed are for, or any service that converts Twitter to RSS.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by l-o_o-l » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 5:41 PM UTC

Yes, how else am I supposed to keep track of 100 sites?

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

#83

Post by MattPalmer1086 » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

Yes, daily. Reading this via Feedly.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

#84

Post by knackundback » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 5:57 PM UTC

Yeah, using NetNewsWire. The original author bought it back somewhat recently and afaik it's a complete rewrite now and open source, go ahead and check it out https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by robotron » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 6:21 PM UTC

Yes

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by Meivi2 » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 6:30 PM UTC

Hell yes

I try to put everything in my RSS reader.

Currently I subscribed to 7110 feeds. (YouTube, SoundCloud, Twitter, Instagram, BiliBili, pixiv.net, Facebook, DevianArt, GitHub, News sites, Reddit, ... - there are no limits :D)

Reader of choice: * https://www.inoreader.com because they support filtering of feeds (even RegEx)

Unfortunately not every site offers native RSS support, that's why I use some tools to generate RSS feeds from these sites.

For example: * https://docs.rsshub.app/en/ (as Docker container) * http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/ (self-hosted version) * https://visualping.io/

As soon as I have some time, I will try to convert email archives and discord channels to RSS feeds, too - saw some python projects about this :p

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by umyemri » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 6:36 PM UTC

All the time. I use Feeder from the F-Droid repo on my phone. Just a few tech blogs, slashdot, hn. I've been thinking about branching out to other sources lately, interesting that this question got asked.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by obarthelemy » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 6:41 PM UTC

Yes. that's how I follow all the websites I find interesting. I haven't seen the homepage of some of those in years. Added benefit, on Android my reader simplifies the formatting and puts everything in Noght Mode.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by smitty1e » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

It is my hope, as an RSS junky (Feedly.com) that this post doesn't doom the protocol the way being caught enjoying features seems to lead to their demise so often these days.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

#90

Post by jandeboevrie » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 6:50 PM UTC

Heavily. Preferably text only, full text. I've just written about it: https://raymii.org/s/articles/Tiny-Tiny-RSS-Readability-plai...

I've got almost a thousand feeds I'm following actively.