I still read my news in my Winds RSS reader, put in quite a few commits to it as well: https://github.com/GetStream/winds
Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spotify are trying to "fix" that.
Honest Questions: * Is Spotify trying to "fix" that now like iTunes tried to "fix" that 20 years ago? * Why should I "enjoy" Spotify as much as I "enjoyed" iTunes? [I didn't, not even a little bit]
They're funding podcasts on the condition they are Spotify-exclusive. It's not about if you enjoy it or not, but just that you need to use Spotify to listen to a particular podcaast.
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#94RSS powers podcasts. 110+ feeds in my feed reader come from extremely diverse sources. It isn’t dead yet.
Spotify, iHeartRadio, and others want to wall off podcasts but their selection is still too limited. Frankly their apps frustrate me greatly. Trying to play things back on Xubuntu while writing is too much of a challenge compared to pairing gPodder & VLC.
I have a blog and a newsletter that doesn’t duplicate the blog. Using TinyLetter forces me to shoot for long form pieces and to get them in good shape. I also end up approaching things in the newsletter that I don’t on my blog.
I can’t remember if the bot on Telegram is fed by RSS but that’s how I spotted this anyhow...
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#95I think a lot of people think RSS is dead because they never see it promoted anywhere. Pretty much every web site has a row of social media icons, but hardly ever is there an RSS icon in the row, even if the web site supports it.
Frankly, I don't think most people who run web sites even know that the framework/CMS/rolfburger they're using automatically publishes RSS feeds for them.
Yesterday I stumbled across an app called Fraidy Cat, which is supposed to be a privacy-focused news ingester. I haven't done much with it yet, but I was surprised when I pasted in the URLs of several newspapers that I read, the program showed RSS feeds for all of them. None of the paper web sites have any mention of RSS at all.
Edit: Even the New York Times has RSS:
Latest: https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml
New York: https://www.nytimes.com/section/nyregion
Technology: https://www.nytimes.com/section/technology
Science: https://www.nytimes.com/svc/collections/v1/publish/https://w...
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#96By asking the question using the word "dead"[0] which has such offensive connotations, it will spur some to say "it's not dead" -- which isn't really going to be productive for what I think you're really asking. First, in one sense (but doesn't really answer your question) ... the old protocols like RSS (feeds), NNTP (news), IRC (chat), etc are never going to be "dead" because somebody somewhere will always be provid…
RSS does play a growing role in a few places: podcasts [1] and virtual assistant apps (e.g. Alexa [2], Google Home[3], etc.) Although in both cases consumers do not tend to have direct access to it. 1. https://itunespartner.apple.com/podcasts/articles/creating-y... 2. https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/flashbriefing/... 3. https://developers.google.com/news/assistant/newsbriefings/t...
I'm not sure its role is growing. I fret a bit about Spotify and Stitcher becoming the defacto place to discover and consume podcasts, because podcasts seem to be the last bastion of steady RSS usage.
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#97no
this feels like almost "is rss dead" spam
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#98Deprecated.
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#99I think I sort of take my internet access for granted. Because I never use RSS since at any time I can open a browser or an app and get the news.
Imo there are two uses for RSS. 1) People who still scroll through a digest of news at certain times in their day. I envy these people for their disciplined habits.
2) And having a service that syncs news to your device via RSS for when you're not online.
Re: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
#100I think a lot of people think RSS is dead because they never see it promoted anywhere. Pretty much every web site has a row of social media icons, but hardly ever is there an RSS icon in the row, even if the web site supports it. Frankly, I don't think most people who run web sites even know that the framework/CMS/rolfburger they're using automatically publishes RSS feeds for them. Yesterday I stumbled across an app…
I put together a list of popular US newspapers with RSS feeds in OPML format a few years ago. I haven't checked to see if any of them have gone dead yet though. https://github.com/newman8r/us-newspapers-opml
might be useful for people trying to start a collection of feeds