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Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by efwfwef »

timbit42 wrote: post #161
efwfwef wrote: post #148

The bigger problem for RSS, in my opinion, is the weird XML format. I remember setting it up for my websites and it was a huge pain, had to find a library to do it, there weren't many, ended up using something of poor quality but that works. If the schema was super simple, and used JSON, I bet a lot more websites would use RSS.

RSS was created before JSON was. It's built into WordPress.

I know, that's why there needs to be a new format that current developers can just use. And let client supports both formats. Maybe, that's what I should do. It's a developer/server issue I'm talking about, not a client issue.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by Moru »

netghost wrote: post #163

RSS lets me see the content I care about without black box algorithms getting in the way. This is so important to me that I wrote a feed reader as a browser plugin so I don't need to worry about a service disappearing some day. If you're curious it's Brook[1], and if you like hacking on things, it's open source[2]. There's a branch that works on Chrome, but I really like Firefox's support for showing content in a sid…

Oh, finally something that just works in a sane way, thankyou! I was searching on RSS in firefox plugins, never thought of searching on FEED.

Is it possible for it not to add an RSS feed you already have in the list?

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by asdff »

giobox wrote: post #141
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…

This would largely have saved RSS for me. I'd argue there was a glorious era in late 2000s where you could almost replace your browser with a good feed reader and get vast majority of news/info this way. It was just so nice to have a single UI surface for all news stories rather than poking through many different websites. I understand my using the sites that way contributes nothing really to their bottom line, I nev…

There are a few services that get full text from RSS feed items for you

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by awhow »

duckmysick wrote: post #140
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.

Thunderbird supports RSS...and NNTP.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by netghost »

Moru wrote: post #182
netghost wrote: post #163

RSS lets me see the content I care about without black box algorithms getting in the way. This is so important to me that I wrote a feed reader as a browser plugin so I don't need to worry about a service disappearing some day. If you're curious it's Brook[1], and if you like hacking on things, it's open source[2]. There's a branch that works on Chrome, but I really like Firefox's support for showing content in a sid…

Oh, finally something that just works in a sane way, thankyou! I was searching on RSS in firefox plugins, never thought of searching on FEED. Is it possible for it not to add an RSS feed you already have in the list?

I should work RSS into the title… feed encompasses RSS, Atom, and then a few other tricks I use to get feeds of content.

It _should_ tell you you're already subscribed if the feed is in your list. It gets a bit tricky with redirects and non canonical urls.

If you use github, drop an issue there detailing what you're seeing. If not, then let me know in a DM or this thread.

Also thank you for using Brook, you now account for 2% of the world wide usage ;)

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by awhow »

efwfwef wrote: post #181
timbit42 wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RSS was created before JSON was. It's built into WordPress.

I know, that's why there needs to be a new format that current developers can just use. And let client supports both formats. Maybe, that's what I should do. It's a developer/server issue I'm talking about, not a client issue.

There is jsonfeed (https://jsonfeed.org/)

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by netghost »

StavrosK wrote: post #173
netghost wrote: post #163

RSS lets me see the content I care about without black box algorithms getting in the way. This is so important to me that I wrote a feed reader as a browser plugin so I don't need to worry about a service disappearing some day. If you're curious it's Brook[1], and if you like hacking on things, it's open source[2]. There's a branch that works on Chrome, but I really like Firefox's support for showing content in a sid…

I really like this, well done! I was actually thinking of getting something like it the other day. Can I suggest keyboard navigation (basically "go to next unread") and "only show unread items"? It would be great to be able to press a key and go to the next unread feed.

Oh, of course. That makes a ton of sense, I'll think about how to do that shortly.

If you're on Github adding an issue would help me remember, if not I'll try to keep it top of mind until I put the kids to bed.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by nreece »

RSS is dope. At Feedity, we love how feeds make it immensely easy and valuable to monitor hundreds and thousands of news sites, insights, blogs, jobs, products and what not.

With our rebranded and revamped platform, New Sloth (https://newsloth.com), we continue to generate feeds for public sources and aggregate content across channels, all neatly collated in one place, making it super useful for busy professionals and savvy businesses to stay ahead of the crowd and make informed decisions.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by worker767424 »

_peeley wrote: post #177

If you're an Emacs user, I'd really recommend checking out elfeed ( https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed ). You can subscribe to RSS feeds just by adding a line to an org-mode file, and then organize and tag all your feeds with all the usual org-mode features. Also, I think the author is being a little pessimistic about the state of RSS. It might not really be "mainstream", but almost every blog I visit has a feed, also…

There's a joke about Emacs being a great OS that has everything except for a decent text editor.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by sideproject »

Love RSS - it's too simple. :) I run a small tool called Newsy

https://www.newsy.co

Which converts your un-used domain into a content aggregator. Originally I wasn't planning to do RSS and instead offer an API access. But none of my users ever asked for an API access, but they all wanted RSS feeds.

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