I Still Use RSS

#1

Post by todsacerdoti » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 3:17 PM UTC

I Still Use RSS
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Re: I Still Use RSS

#2

Post by rascul » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 3:28 PM UTC

I also still use RSS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Re: I Still Use RSS

#3

Post by throwaways885 » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

I'm so happy websites have kept RSS around, because even if it's mostly used for machine-to-machine feeds nowadays, we obviously piggyback on top of it and benefit. It could've been so easy for big sites to replace it with proprietary APIs for GitHub, YT, etc...

Re: I Still Use RSS

#4

Post by susam » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

I provide an RSS feed for my blog. From my access.log, I see that there is a decent number of subscribers to my feed. Here is the data I could pull from it:

  Feedly           91 subscribers
  Inoreader        16 subscribers
  Feedbin           6 subscribers
  NewsBlur          4 subscribers
  The Old Reader    3 subscribers
  BazQux            2 subscribers
  WordPress         2 subscribers
  -------------------------------
  Total           124 subscribers

I get about 4000-6000 hits to my website on a normal day. It increases by 5 to 10 times if a post hits the HN front page. When I publish new post, I see from the HTTP referer information in the logs that about 30 or so hits come from users who find a link to my post in their feed reader. These are very small numbers but they are good enough to keep the feed alive.

Re: I Still Use RSS

#5

Post by IceWreck » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:18 PM UTC

I use FreshRSS as my client. Most news sites have feeds. For those that dont, there is RSSBridge which helps you make them or extend truncated feeds.

Re: I Still Use RSS

#6

Post by meremortals » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:18 PM UTC

I've been loving Fraidyc.at for RSS

While https://rssbox.herokuapp.com/ is great, I wish more websites allowed RSS rather than resorting to hacky workarounds

Re: I Still Use RSS

#7

Post by royjacobs » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

I'm happily using Feedly ever since Google Reader got shut down. I genuinely would be missing out on a lot of content if people would stop providing RSS feeds, especially for blogs that only update very sporadically.

Re: I Still Use RSS

#8

Post by 0-_-0 » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:22 PM UTC

You can get an RSS feed of replies to your HN comments: https://hnrss.org/replies?id=YOUR_HN_NAME

Re: I Still Use RSS

#9

Post by woodruffw » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

susam wrote: post #4

I provide an RSS feed for my blog. From my access.log, I see that there is a decent number of subscribers to my feed. Here is the data I could pull from it: Feedly 91 subscribers Inoreader 16 subscribers Feedbin 6 subscribers NewsBlur 4 subscribers The Old Reader 3 subscribers BazQux 2 subscribers WordPress 2 subscribers ------------------------------- Total 124 subscribers I get about 4000-6000 hits to my website on…

I came here to say exactly this: my numbers are similar to yours (and from headers only, like you[1]), and a decent proportion of my views come from feed clients. My blog generator takes care of the feed for me; I haven't thought about managing it in years.

[1]: https://www.yossarian.net/snippets#vbnla

Re: I Still Use RSS

#10

Post by hprotagonist » Wed, Feb 03, 2021, 5:24 PM UTC

I use RSS to read HN!

and about 170 other sites, at last count.