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

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by brynlewis » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 9:54 PM UTC

deanebarker wrote: post #7

Yep. Inoreader. I browse 300-400 items a day through it.

Using it right now

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by brnt » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 9:57 PM UTC

I load up a bunch of selected feeds with a embarassingly simple php script that then shows me the headlines. Easy to visit on any device. koppen.ga for anyone interested.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by symgryph » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 10:33 PM UTC

yes

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by jeena » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 10:34 PM UTC

Yes, to read blogs.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by mike-cardwell » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 10:57 PM UTC

Yeah. I currently gate 155 RSS feeds to email using a custom built Perl script. A sieve filter directs them to a "News" folder, which I consume using my phone and laptops IMAP clients. Some of those feeds are very busy, e.g https://news.ycombinator.com/rss so I updated my script to allow me to assign regexes to particular feeds so I only get articles of interest.

Well, they're not really all RSS. 27 of those RSS feeds are actually Twitter streams that I gated to RSS first using this application which I wrote: https://gitlab.com/mikecardwell/functwitter

Oh, and 7 of them are actually just normal web pages which I converted to RSS feeds using https://fetchrss.com/

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by officiallywise » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 11:04 PM UTC

Yes. Feedly as my Google Reader replacement and my desktop consumption. Then Reeder on the iPad.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by modernerd » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 11:14 PM UTC

lnalx wrote: post #98

modernerd wrote: post #24

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 frie…

I just discovered Feedbin and never paid for a RSS Reader before. Is it really worth paying 5$ ?

I save at least $5/month in time and sanity by using Feedbin instead of twitter directly.

There’s a 14-day free trial so you could try it yourself to see if you get value from it.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by JeanMarcS » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 11:20 PM UTC

Yes, with Feedly.

I wished all my favorite bands had a RSS feed so I could finally ditch FB

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by narven » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 12:23 AM UTC

yes

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

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Post by troydavis » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 1:18 AM UTC

lnalx wrote: post #98

modernerd wrote: post #24

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 frie…

I just discovered Feedbin and never paid for a RSS Reader before. Is it really worth paying 5$ ?

> Is it really worth paying 5$ ?

For me, it's worth way more, but I think this mostly depends what $5 is worth to you. Do you occasionally pay $5 for a beer, cocktail, coffee, or glass of wine? It's worth way more than any of those.