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Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?

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Post by cortesoft »

burkaman wrote: post #59
stagger87 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The passive aggressive part is the “(as though they’re not aware)” part of the comment. It makes it clear that the commenter thinks this is intentional but is acting as if it isn’t.

Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?

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Post by JeremyNT »

taborj wrote: post #63
nojito wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AP and Reuters have excellent twitter feeds.

To extend that a bit, using something like RSS-Bridge[0] you can turn a Twitter feed into an RSS feed. [0] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

Truly a great recommendation! I switched to tt-rss years ago when Google Reader was discontinued, but as more services discontinue their RSS feeds it has been consistently losing value.

I'd looked for something like rss-bridge ages ago, around the time I moved to tt-rss, but it didn't seem to exist (or wasn't popular enough to find). Your mention caused me to give things another look, and now my tt-rss is rapidly filling back up with content. Thanks!

Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?

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Post by jmsflknr »

dang wrote: post #109
antpls wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi dang. The feeds are _not_ populating for about 24h now, but any rss readers that fetched the last news from 24h ago will still show the last news from 24h ago (like in the imgur picture). With all my respect, I would agree to change the title to add a question mark, but not to downweight the fact that, intentionally or not, reuters killed their rss feeds for 24h now, and some of us are impacted, and they would lik…

Ok, but the problem is that then this becomes an "is down" story, as in "Reuters' RSS feed is down". Those tend not to be a very high quality category of submission, and it's unlikely that a story with that title would have shot to the front page. Rather it's the sensational they-killed-RSS! aspect of the story that attracted attention, because it ties in with the generic topics of RSS-lamentation and web-nostalgia w…

Absolutely agree with your thinking, Dang. Also, my apologies to Burkaman, you were right. Reuters' feed has not pushed out any news story in 24 hours now. Apologies for jumping to the conclusion that its feed was populating as normal.

Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?

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Post by random3 »

Dragory wrote: post #82
random3 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Email is being replaced by Slack I don't know about this one. For example, I'm not going to invite every one of our clients to our Slack as a single-channel guest, nor am I going to be joining their Slack workspaces (if any of them even have one - most of them are in the Microsoft ecosystem). I'm also not going to do that with every vendor I'm in contact with, and so on — email is much more convenient. That being s…

I'm not suggesting that it's replacing every use-case for email. But likely 90+% of internal communication within companies that use it. I've experienced this both in my previous large corp (20K+) job as well as my startup (The main difference is that Slack lacks a unique global id, so you can't add a user in Figma based on it's Slack ID unless you have a Figma / Slack integration. Email still rules for these use-cases - which is exactly why open-standards (such as email, RSS, etc.) are better than proprietary APIs that repeat the same use-cases over and over.

Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?

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Post by fmajid »

sneak wrote: post #26
vvillena wrote: post #11

The death of RSS is the death of the federated web model where users view and consume the content they want to. Modern alternatives like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram do not serve users in the same way. Users happily consume the content the platform feeds to them, without much say in it. It's an eerie return to the pre-Internet days, where the only choices a consumer had were to change the TV channel / radio dial…

What death of RSS? There are literally zero blogs I want to follow that don't support it.

Jepsen.io doesn’t seem to have one.

Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?

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Post by Yetanfou »

kungato wrote: post #73
jaredwiener wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Using third-party aggregators like this only adds a middle man to a process which can be easily done by yourself using something like Nextcloud News on a personal server - a SBC like a Raspberry Pi or something similar is enough for this task (and others). You get to choose exactly which sources you want to add, from The Daily Beast to The Daily Wire, from Breitbart to HuffPo, take your pick and add them. You might have to do some work to find a feed link or rig up a scraper for those sites which don't offer one but this is worth the effort.

One of the big advantages of running your own aggregator is that you get to see part of the editorial process - article titles are being changed, often from 'honest' to 'biased' or 'bland', articles are first put up but dropped a few minutes later, etc. You get to see how different outlets report on the same issue without any potential filtering by a middle man.

Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?

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Post by stijnsanders »

kmstout wrote: post #17

I sent an online support request pointing out the problem (as though they're not aware) and politely asking when it would be fixed. Assuming the reply window for this thread is still open by then, I'll post any response here.

I posted something here: https://reuters.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new I wonder if I'll get any response...

Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?

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Post by the_biot »

marban wrote: post #27

99% of times it's just an error on their end and they eventually come back. Why: I've created popurls fame back in the days (now hvper.com) and I can tell you that this would be the first prominent case that a major outlet would eventually give up on offering a feed. RSS is alive and kicking and its death is just something the tech community loves to agonize over and over again.

I created a support ticket with my RSS reader (Newsblur) about this issue concerning you! It appears to be quietly feeding me hvper.com articles from the now non-functional feeds.reuters.com (https://forum.newsblur.com/t/where-did-hvper-news-come-from/...).

I don't supposed you know how this magic could possibly happen?

Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?

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Post by pforret »

sneak wrote: post #26
vvillena wrote: post #11

The death of RSS is the death of the federated web model where users view and consume the content they want to. Modern alternatives like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram do not serve users in the same way. Users happily consume the content the platform feeds to them, without much say in it. It's an eerie return to the pre-Internet days, where the only choices a consumer had were to change the TV channel / radio dial…

What death of RSS? There are literally zero blogs I want to follow that don't support it.

Most blog software have RSS built in, so that's not where you would see the death of RSS.

These sites don't have RSS (anymore): News publications: Bloomberg, Economist, Forbes, TechRadar ... Communities: Indiehackers, dev.to They switch it off because it allows people to see their content without the advertising, or they forget to implement it. Source: I created https://nuuz.io/tech and it depends on RSS feeds for news.

Re: Reuters killed their RSS feeds?

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Post by stijnsanders »

stijnsanders wrote: post #117
kmstout wrote: post #17

I sent an online support request pointing out the problem (as though they're not aware) and politely asking when it would be fixed. Assuming the reply window for this thread is still open by then, I'll post any response here.

I posted something here: https://reuters.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new I wonder if I'll get any response...

Yep: got this:

Leo, Jun 22, 2020, 9:55 AM UTC: Hello,

Thank you for reaching out. Please be informed that we've already discontinued RSS Feed on Reuters.com. If you require the service, we suggest that you contact our Sales Team on the link provided below:

https://agency.reuters.com/en/contact-us.html

Kind regards,

The Reuters.com Team

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