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Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by RMPR »

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…

> While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for that

That's awesome, just recently started using RSS seriously (less than 6 months) I'll definitely have a look. Also for replies, I think hnreplies[0] isworth mentioning. Discovered it by interacting with the author here on HN.

0: https://www.hnreplies.com/

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by disillusioned1 »

TrianguloY wrote: post #154

As many others here I've been a rss users since the Google reader days, but I use it on my android mobile phone only. I use inoreader and News+ [1] because it allows to automatically sync each hour and notifies me of new content to check (and it shows the list of posts with the title, the first few sentences of the content and a picture if any, which allows to quickly check if I want to read it or not). I'm happy wit…

I'm a longtime, dedicated Inoreader user. I occasionally try all the Android RSS readers that support it, but none lure me away from the official Inoreader client [1]. Does it not meet your requirements?

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innologica...

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by [deleted] »

jamesponddotco wrote: post #258
herodoturtle wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Since I use a tilling window manager and the browser I use for day to day use is on a workspace where an empty terminal window is always open next to it, everything happens faster than it probably reads from my larger than it should description. This was the key insight I was hoping for - thanks! Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs. That's a game-changer for me. Cheers.

> This was the key insight I was hoping for - thanks! You are welcome! I separate workspaces by their purposes so to speak, so the one with qutebrowser[1] is divided in four squares, with qutebrowser, aerc[2], profanity[3], and an empty terminal window. When I need to focus on one, I just switch it to full screen with a keyboard shortcut. > Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs. mpv --ontop --n…

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Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by herodoturtle »

RMPR wrote: post #259
herodoturtle wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Since I use a tilling window manager and the browser I use for day to day use is on a workspace where an empty terminal window is always open next to it, everything happens faster than it probably reads from my larger than it should description. This was the key insight I was hoping for - thanks! Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs. That's a game-changer for me. Cheers.

> Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs. That's a game-changer for me. Cheers. You can even pass youtube-dl parameters using mpv. The one I use the most is --ytdl-format which corresponds to -f on the youtube-dl side.

Cheers thanks!

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by RMPR »

justnotworthit wrote: post #119

Im a podcast/youtube addict, yet I havent found a good use of youtube's RSS feed. I'd love for channels and playlists to be as simple as podcast feeds, but YT doesn't want to be a file server. 1) They block you from watching outside of youtube, so you still need the site to watch 1a) Or do a unix'y combination with youtube-dl; file management; etc 1b) Or use a service or tool that comes, gets broken, goes; (podsync,…

> 1) They block you from watching outside of youtube, so you still need the site to watch

> 1a) Or do a unix'y combination with youtube-dl; file management; etc

> 1b) Or use a service or tool that comes, gets broken, goes; (podsync, youcast)

1c) Use mpv to stream the videos[0], you can even have picture-in-picture[1]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26017660

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26022835

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by breischl »

dialamac wrote: post #255
breischl wrote: post #195

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>I always wonder why they aren't as popular now. IMO it's a lot of reasons. A big one, that was the case even before social media, is the inherent geekiness of it. "RSS" is an acronym after a geek's heart, most people don't like it. The subscription process is complicated. Go to the site, find the feed (which one? There might be a bunch! eg, main feed, topic feed, comments-per-post feed, etc), take that URL and paste…

> A big one, that was the case even before social media, is the inherent geekiness of it. "RSS" is an acronym after a geek's heart, most people don't like it. Like WWW, RCA, GE.. (the latter two of the most recognizable and successful brands of all time). got it. (And no one cares what an acronym stands for anyway.. you don’t need to know this to make use of it, it has no bearing. RSS is pretty catchy as far as brand…

RSS as branding - well, I've tried to sell people on it for years. I actually worked at an RSS aggregator startup for 7 years, so I spent a while pushing it. You say "RSS" to most people and their eyes glaze over.

>The subscription process is simplicity itself

You must've found some different sites than I have, because even sites that have a feed don't make it obvious how. For instance, check out Substack, ex: https://steady.substack.com/p/america-the-beautiful

Can I get an RSS feed, and if so how? The giant "Subscribe" button isn't it. So I guess grab the page URL and paste it into Feedly and see what I get. I don't mind this (much), but "mass market" it ain't. And this kind of process is very common in my experience. Back in the day sites would have the little "feed" icon sometimes and that helped, but it was still a 2-3 step process.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by edgartaor »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #62
sgtfrankieboy wrote: post #29

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Google shutting down their RSS reader didn't really have an impact. They shut it down back in March of 2013. If you look at the trends graph[1] for RSS it was dying out for years. [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

Long-term Google trends graphs are kind of useless because they're a percentage of queries over a period of time when the demographics of the user base was changing as millions of new people got on the internet. Here's the one for javascript: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=javascri... Clearly javascript has been slowly dying out. But wait, that can't be right. They're also a poor proxy for usage…

Do you know a better alternative? I would like to know

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by herodoturtle »

jamesponddotco wrote: post #258
herodoturtle wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Since I use a tilling window manager and the browser I use for day to day use is on a workspace where an empty terminal window is always open next to it, everything happens faster than it probably reads from my larger than it should description. This was the key insight I was hoping for - thanks! Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs. That's a game-changer for me. Cheers.

> This was the key insight I was hoping for - thanks! You are welcome! I separate workspaces by their purposes so to speak, so the one with qutebrowser[1] is divided in four squares, with qutebrowser, aerc[2], profanity[3], and an empty terminal window. When I need to focus on one, I just switch it to full screen with a keyboard shortcut. > Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs. mpv --ontop --n…

You sir, are a legend, thanks for all the useful tips.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by aboyandhisdog »

stevekemp wrote: post #54
knubie wrote: post #46

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

I could almost imagine running a small service that presented the contents of an IMAP folder as a feed, but I can't imagine actually using such a thing!

Are we making fun of Hey email?
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