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Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by shakna »

djhworld wrote: post #38

I've mentioned this on HN before, one pattern I've noticed is a lot of sites tend to truncate their RSS feed so you have to click through to see the full article etc. This is mostly OK but kinda frustrating, as in the before-covid times I used to ride the London Underground a lot where no celluar signal is available in the tunnels - so my offline RSS reader would be useless. So I wrote a little web service accepts an…

One of the reasons I went from placing a full article in my RSS feed to truncating it into a descriptor and leaving the link as the "source of truth" was I found that there a bunch of intentionally crippled readers, like Thunderbird, that strip all the markup and turn my article into an unreadable mess.

Traffic to both the feed and to the main site increased noticeably when I reduced it to a descriptor.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by paxo »

I actually make my own RSS feeds using RSS-Bridge. It is a trivial process if you a bit of PHP. Then, I'd hook them up to my FreshRSS aggregator fork.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by ju3030 »

I was actually wondering about that when I saw an RSS app on the store. To me it's like an icon that indicates a pre-2012 website, interesting

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by 2shnuckery »

frouge wrote: post #51

The sites I followed have become bookmarks :(

Yes, that is also another feature coming with Opera 12

But...uh 'A majority of people want to equate negative social control with acts of physical violence and to know that actions are taken against.' -What is maybe way more important... (-;

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by ecliptik »

jamesponddotco wrote: post #112
knubie wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would actually like the opposite of this. Having newsletters and other such “no-reply” emails go directly to an RSS feed.

Feedbin[1], my feed reader of choice, has that. They give you a random email address that you can use to receive newsletters in your feed and automatically have them tagged. [1] https://feedbin.com/

Newsblur[1] has this feature as well and it's a nice addition to any RSS reader.

1. https://blog.newsblur.com/post/146752875548/newsletters-in-y...

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by 4926394057 »

knubie wrote: post #46
stevekemp wrote: post #36

RSS 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.

Here's what I use to do exactly that; https://kill-the-newsletter.com/

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by nicbou »

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #80

Is RSS really so obscure as the site suggests? Every website I am interested in updates from provides a feed. Apparently YouTube content creators receive more money if they have more subscribers, but I don't subscribe and simply use the RSS feed; it's easier. Perhaps YouTube also factors in the number of RSS requæsts they receive.

I suspect that it's only there because WordPress includes it.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by eisa01 »

fxj wrote: post #93
royjacobs wrote: post #7

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.

I am using inoreader.com and never looked back. Even the free version is great. I use the paid version and it gives me all what I need. I can only recommend it.

Agree, especially handy with the support for email newsletters!

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by duckmysick »

Nition wrote: post #75

Lots of discussion on feed readers but basic support should be built in to browsers really. Doesn't have to be a full "reader", it can just have a little RSS icon that shows a (1) etc for new items, which shows the links to the posts when clicked. Show up a little marker on the same icon when a site has a feed you can subscribe to. Manage your feeds in the settings somewhere.

Firefox used to support RSS, but they removed it in late 2018.
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