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Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by prepend »

cecida wrote: post #158
prepend wrote: post #143

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I’ve never had as peaceful a work life as back when I used yahoo pipes to organize all the RSS feeds from GitHub and Jira and others into a unified view of what’s happening in all my projects. It broke due to a fluke because a network engineer decided to try to implement a software based firewall that blocked rss files. This was such a weird error but the engineer didn’t know what rss or curl was if that tells you so…

God, Yahoo Pipes is a blast from the past. Yahoo did so many things that were new and interesting, but never seemed to be able to bring them altogether into a cohesive product.

Sometimes I think of them as Xerox Parc as they obviously had some smart people sort of tooting around on neat stuff, not worrying about money.

They made so much money, until they didn’t. It’s interesting how these large organizations are able to sort of be patrons of certain activities. Other companies may have spent the surplus on hookers and coke, yahoo let engineers build stuff.

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Post by m-p-3 »

There's no way I could follow as many sources of information without RSS. Being able to quickly scan the titles and summaries of articles wouldn't be as efficient if I had to manually load each websites frontpage, and I'd probably miss some stuff if I didn't check periodically.

I used Google Reader, then switched to Feedly, and then jumped to Inoreader and now I feel like home.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by netghost »

Saris wrote: post #199
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…

This looks great! I would definitely put RSS in the wording somewhere, I would not have thought to search for "feed" instead. Does it utilize firefox sync at all for multiple devices? I see an import/export option at least so I can get the same feeds on my laptop and desktop.

It doesn't use firefox sync yet, but it probably could.

I think it's fairly restricted on how much data you can sync and I'd want to make sure "normal" usage doesn't get too close to that.

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Post by jamesponddotco »

jjav wrote: post #171
jamesponddotco wrote: post #105

I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed. While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for…

Same here, RSS is the center of all my internet content consumption. How else could one keep track of things? There isn't any substitute. I get HN via RSS but didn't know about the replies feed, cool! I use rss2email to turn everything into effectively a mailing list, so convenient. Very sad that craigslist broke their RSS feed a few months ago, so I can no longer shop for anything advertised there for sale.

Using rss2email crossed my mind a few times since I already spend most of my day in the terminal anyway, but it always end up being left for tomorrow.

I should take a look at it tomorrow.

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Post by postit »

jamesponddotco wrote: post #105

I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed. While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for…

The day I discovered feedbin can follow twitter lists and you can use it to subscribe to mailing lists, it got me in.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by baud147258 »

I'm using a rss (as a chrome extension), mostly to get notifications for new blog posts/webcomic chapters for a handful of websites I'm following this way. I like it and I'd be sad if it was dropped. I also use twitter and reddit, but that's to consume other types of content (more random discussions and less long-form writing)

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by senectus1 »

RSS is still a heavy part of my catch up process.

every day I sort, and parse through about 600 + news articles via RSS.

takes me about 30 mins in the morning and then a few mins a few times a day throughout the day.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by irae »

alrs wrote: post #76
k1m wrote: post #68

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I've worked on something similar for some years: http://ftr.fivefilters.org An older version available on BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/fivefilters/full-text-rss/src/master/

I'm a huge fan. Here's my Docker-ized take: https://github.com/alrs/full-text-rss-docker EDIT: full-text-rss + newsboat + nyt screenshot: https://lsngl.us/@alrs/105652475456016345

clicking through is what killed it for me too. I just never went through the trouble of setting up crawlers and stuff. Looks like open source is to the recue nowadays. I am pretty sure there was nothing as easy as that back in the day. Thanks for sharing this!

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Post by 2cb »

jamesponddotco wrote: post #105

I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed. While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for…

I’ve been getting back into RSS feeds so I could follow news sources and blogs of people I know without an algorithm dictating what I see like all the news apps you get these days. You just gave me some real cool resources to add. Thanks!

I didn’t appreciate RSS enough back when it was a hot new thing, now in these days of the algorithmic internet it’s a blessing and a relief.

I really like Mastodon as a platform for the largely same reason. It’s “neutral” with its chronological feeds and you control what you see, especially if you run an instance.

Saw a post recently that sums it up nicely and could equally apply to RSS: “On Mastodon the content is the product and you’re the algorithm.”

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