Using Newsblur on iOS and Flym on Android, a great open source and offline reader https://github.com/FredJul/Flym
I Still Use RSS
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Re: I Still Use RSS
#202I 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…
It is unfortunate that it's so tough to track RSS viewers. I'm always tempted to convert the feed to cut-back version just so I can see what posts are actually popular.
An idea I had is to just embed a pixel into the item body. You can self host it too: just analyze the apache logs (or whatever you have) for requests to that pixel.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#203I guess I'm old school, it will seem crazy for some, but I simply don't use a dedicated podcast player, I track all my podcasts through RSS feeds in a dedicated RSS reader's instance.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox used to support RSS, but they removed it in late 2018.
Thunderbird supports RSS...and NNTP.
The feature could use some work however. I remember trying it recently and OPML support (especially when you have sub-folders) didn't really work.
Personally I use Smart-RSS [1], which is a clone of the original Opera (12) feed reader and runs as a browser extension (both chrome/ium and firefox). It has some bugs but it works well for my use case.
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#205I'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
Same here. Just wish fraidy cat worked on mobile.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#206Is 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.
Yeah, just looking at my RSS list, most of them I discovered from just checking the usual /rss endpoints that are completely unadvertised on the website where you see in the XML it's generated by Wordrpress.
I have no doubt that it's the only reason most feeds exist.
Any RSS reader really needs to be able to crawl websites to create its own feed as only consuming websites that support RSS is a pretty weak prospect.
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#207I've been using Newsblur since Google Reader shut down in 2013. It's a great service with many useful features https://clumma.newsblur.com I pipe my Reddit likes into it. Unfortunately almost all of the blogs I used to read are inactive, and I haven't found good blogs to replace them. It would be awesome if HN supported RSS.
People share quite a bit of HN content via RSS on newsblur, hell I’m posting this from inside Newsblur right now.
The feed I follow is hosted by a newsblur user named Skorgu: https://www.skorgu.net/hn.rss
But you can get other tailored feeds at: https://hnrss.org
Re: I Still Use RSS
#208I'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…
I still heavily use RSS, but usually unsubscribe from feeds that truncate (unless it is a very long article). It isn't a religious thing - the vast majority of the time, the truncation is way too short to properly advertise the content. The mystery doesn't move me to click-through, quite the opposite - it is annoying, so I remove the annoyance. I understand the tradeoffs for folks who want to be paid via ads, but the…
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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/ )
this is cool! I'm wondering what clients support this : o
Re: I Still Use RSS
#210I'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
Also love fraidycat, the approach it takes for keeping things “fair” is really nice.
It solves one of the problems I’ve had with other RSS readers around the overwhelm when adding a new source/neglecting an existing source. Opening up to see tens/hundreds of items in the backlog that you feel obligated to read isn’t fun.
I’ve got it set as my new tab page, which makes it easy to see new stuff at a glance, and then I can delve into the less important stuff when I’ve got time to waste.