I use RSS to read HN! and about 170 other sites, at last count.
Me too. Using Tiny Tiny RSS on my NAS for years now. Love it!
I Still Use RSS
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#42best thing i've ever read
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#43I kind of think everyone recommending their favorite rss reader is missing the mark. During the google reader days, rss was provided by everyone, and blogging-like publication was how you did things. The internet just isn’t like that anymore and no matter how nice your reader is that’s not how things are published.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm perfectly happy just getting headlines with links, which seems most common these days, at least for what I subscribe to. It requires I go to their site to get the content where they can (try to) shove anything they want in my face and run whatever trackers they normally do.
This why I personally gave up RSS. I used to enjoy reading things in my RSS reader where I could set things up to be clear to me. Once they started providing only links back to the WWW browser where everything was hard to read I gave up and now I just suffer reading in the WWW browser and frankly don't read nearly half as much online content as a result.
Aren't there RSS-readers that offer something like the reader-mode you get on web-browsers?
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#45To me, one of the most important features of RSS is not having to reskim over titles I've already dismissed. I don't even mind that most feeds don't have any content, the links are good enough for my needs. I really wish AP and Reuters would bring back RSS, I'd no longer have any reason to open a site just to skim headlines. Some might argue that is the reason news sites stopped offering RSS, but I don't think it rea…
If you're okay with feeds generated from the home pages of those sites, the Feed Creator project I work on can generate feeds for them:
* Reuters: https://createfeed.fivefilters.org/index.php?url=https%3A%2F...
* AP: https://createfeed.fivefilters.org/index.php?url=https%3A%2F...
Relying on the underlying HTML attributes of the page to generate the feed does make these feeds much more brittle, but it's one option when the sites choose to switch off their own feeds.
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#46RSS is awesome! I never got the hang of using a read-application, instead I use rss2email to get copies of posts delivered to my inbox. There are a few different tools for getting the feeds to email, my own is a pretty simple golang application I run in a docker-container: https://github.com/skx/rss2email/
I would actually like the opposite of this. Having newsletters and other such “no-reply” emails go directly to an RSS feed.
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#47i heard the guy who wrote this article is really cute and good at linux
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#48I 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…
How do you identify Feedly subscribers? Isn't there a single request from Feedly that it uses for all of its users?
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#49One the best parts of RSS is you can read a blog in your preferred typographical style instead of, for example, white text on a black background.
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#50I also still use RSS. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
There's also this: https://hnrss.github.io/ Which lets you set filters so that you only see posts with a certain amount of activity, so you aren't spammed with every single HN submission in your feed.
hnrss is great. This is what most news sites get wrong, they might have RSS, but it gives you every new article and that can be over a hundred per day. And then they eventually conclude that no uses it and thus RSS is bad, when it's just their thresholdless implementation that's bad.