Still showing up on RSS apps and populating new entries. https://imgur.com/a/GiE37KC
Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
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Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
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Hogwash Email works fine. I am in months long conversations with academics and thinkers around the world. Signal works fine. Same story as above. What’s dying is your historical connectivity to specific ideas. That’s hardly a sign fascism and censorship are settling in. And really you’re saying it was impossible for anyone to blindly get addicted to an RSS feed, just reading whatever is posted to it? Good grief. Your…
Email is being replaced by Slack. Maybe RSS / Atom weren't good enough, but what they're being replaced with isn't better either. It's not just about RSS. It's about moving off open standards to closed properties. It's also more effort to integrate different sources as each one has a different API. Indeed, nor the world nor freedom of information will die here, but that doesn't mean it's a step forward.
Sorry, evangelist, I don't need my bank contacting me on your insecure "Slack" channels about my personal finances.
Email is just fine.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#73Is there an alternate source for this? It's how I got my news up until it shut down.
Shameless plug -- but I built this web app, aggregates a bunch of different sources: https://journali.sm
Why does it seem like there's only cnn, nyt and abc in the feed? Can we get articles from all sides of the spectrum? I'd like to see RT, fox, aljazeera and some edgy stuff I don't even know about
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
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Email is being replaced by Slack. Maybe RSS / Atom weren't good enough, but what they're being replaced with isn't better either. It's not just about RSS. It's about moving off open standards to closed properties. It's also more effort to integrate different sources as each one has a different API. Indeed, nor the world nor freedom of information will die here, but that doesn't mean it's a step forward.
I'm very likely a minority but I only hear about Slack when I'm browsing HN.
In my case from Bloomberg when the stock takes a hit.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
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I see this argument pretty regularly, but I don't understand it. Of course you can run ads in RSS feeds; you can put whatever you want in an RSS feed.
Ads in Internet are the whole ecosystem, they are served based on info you provide in cookies, browser fingerprint and some javascript magic. There is non of that in RSS reader as it is separate from your daily browsing.
The ads I hear on podcasts and radio shows and read in newsletters might beg to differ.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hogwash Email works fine. I am in months long conversations with academics and thinkers around the world. Signal works fine. Same story as above. What’s dying is your historical connectivity to specific ideas. That’s hardly a sign fascism and censorship are settling in. And really you’re saying it was impossible for anyone to blindly get addicted to an RSS feed, just reading whatever is posted to it? Good grief. Your…
Email is being replaced by Slack. Maybe RSS / Atom weren't good enough, but what they're being replaced with isn't better either. It's not just about RSS. It's about moving off open standards to closed properties. It's also more effort to integrate different sources as each one has a different API. Indeed, nor the world nor freedom of information will die here, but that doesn't mean it's a step forward.
Microsoft are leveraging their monopoly in the office world to force teams onto the world, rather than things like Slack, Trello, etc.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
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I hope you're right, but this is an extremely optimistic view that does not have much historical precedent.
Looking at all of history, I'm very optimistic. Going way back to Cuneiform and the printing press, and the internet itself, they all point to a general principle of the breaking up of monolithic information sources over time. It might take a while, but it'll happen with the internet too.
Sad that the internet is now considered a “monolithic information source”. But yay for unicorns I guess.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
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Surely there is a better approach than a passive aggressive support request?
I don't think it's passive aggressive. It could actually just be a mistake. I've emailed (admittedly much smaller) news organizations before when their RSS feeds went down, and received a response and a reinstated feed. I wouldn't bet money on it coming back, but if this was an intentional move I might have expected them to replace the page with "Sorry, no more RSS, try our app!" or something. They are also still lin…
If nobody complains, then they'll know nobody really cares about it.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
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I see this argument pretty regularly, but I don't understand it. Of course you can run ads in RSS feeds; you can put whatever you want in an RSS feed.
adds in RSS offer much less tracking, spying, etc... of course they are still ads, but that's not the same animal at all.
So - putting my Dr. Evil hat on - what about if on your homepage the link to the rss feed has a unique identifier, the same way the alert emails people send out tend to have a unique identifier in every url so you can track what email was successful for which user.
It doesn't help with auto discovering rss tools, but it does handle the person who right clicks and copies the url of the feed to put in their feed reader.
Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
#80That is moving in the opposite direction of the recent trend...
People are getting sick of silos and algorithmic timelines. Lot's my friends are moving back to RSS and feed aggregators, heck I'm building a RSS add-on.