It’s Time to Get Back to RSS • Hacker News Board

Re: It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

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Post by hopesthoughts » Thu, May 28, 2020, 2:07 PM UTC

psycadet wrote: post #145

mcescalante wrote: post #34

RSS has been really great for me over the last year or so (when I got back into it). I tried Feedly, and then Inoreader. I was not willing to pay for either and ended up trying out the two popular self-hosted options: ttrss (tiny tiny rss) and Miniflux. Stuck with Miniflux for its simplicity. Using the Fever API with Reeder on my Mac and Readably on my Android.

Spinned up Miniflux a couple of hours a go, thanks for the recommendation. Software like this makes my self hosting cravings very satisfied.

My thing with self hosting is that I'm using a shared plan. I currently have over 500 feeds, and I don't think they'd be all that happy about it if well... um... I decided to use RSS on their servers.

Re: It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

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Post by hopesthoughts » Thu, May 28, 2020, 2:10 PM UTC

ernsheong wrote: post #265

I am building (at infancy stage, now), a subproduct at https://www.pagedash.com/ that behaves as a Reader. It won't be an RSS reader, but it will be an aggregator of websites / blogs in general. Drop your email here to be notified on launch (and to encourage me to keep building): https://forms.gle/XzZTrTEAtaAXfq6i6

What do you mean by it won't be an RSS reader? you have to allow custom feed URLs right?

Re: It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

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Post by hopesthoughts » Thu, May 28, 2020, 2:14 PM UTC

est wrote: post #271

The main drawback of RSS IMHO is that it's strictly one-way publishing. You can't comment, or like, or subscribe, or share, or sponsor directly to original author. Author might posted something really exiting and seen none of the reactions happening in all kinds of RSS readers. I think it's important if we can have a universal two-way format for long, rich written texts.

Accept you can because you don't have to stay inside the reader.

Re: It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

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Post by hopesthoughts » Thu, May 28, 2020, 2:21 PM UTC

saralily wrote: post #197

Some of us never left. Reading this is weird, like someone "rediscovering" your suburban house.

Right, exactly. It's one of my annoyances recently. I've never left blogging, either, and people say that's long dead.

Re: It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

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Post by hopesthoughts » Thu, May 28, 2020, 2:22 PM UTC

wasdfff wrote: post #200

saralily wrote: post #197

Some of us never left. Reading this is weird, like someone "rediscovering" your suburban house.

I’ve been hearing the death bell for RSS for over a decade and here I am not noticing any difference in the quanitity or availability of feeds. RSS is no longer mainstream and deep into the nerd territory, but claims about its death have been greatly exaggerated.

Was it ever mainstream though? I mean I think the closest we've come is podcasts.

Re: It’s Time to Get Back to RSS

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Post by hopesthoughts » Thu, May 28, 2020, 2:28 PM UTC

zelly wrote: post #66

Twitter has replaced RSS for all intents and purposes. I miss Google Reader and RSS too, but the world has changed. Another reason RSS is in the past is because it was a means of delivering long blog articles which only a small minority of internet users has the interest or attention span for. You miss RSS because you miss 2007.

Um... I was on Twitter in 2007. I think both things can coexist. It doesn't have to be one or the other.