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Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by aidenn0 »

worker767424 wrote: post #189
_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.

Ever since evil-mode came out, it's got a great text editor.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by dialamac »

breischl wrote: post #266
dialamac wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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:…

https://www.apple.com/rss/

Open this on an Apple or android phone. On iOS this will even prompt you to open the App Store to find a feed reader (#1 is still Feedly).

RSS icons were ubiquitous like fb and Twitter icons a few years ago, and anyone could use them. It wasn’t a geek thing, it’s just a market that faded.

I’ve never had the feed icon not work on a phone in the last 10 years or a typically installed browser on Mac or Windows.

I mean this is an absurd conversation. RSS was invented around 1998 and then it was an obscure “geeky” thing.. the only reason we’re having this tedious conversation (and arguably why you’d have had the opportunity to be involved in an RSS startup) is because it had a striking rise from obscurity in the late oughts.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by betwixthewires »

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…

> a lot of sites tend to truncate their RSS feed so you have to click through to see the full article

This is unacceptable to me, and if a site does this I unsubscribe immediately.

Great tool you have! I was considering building something like this (but directly in a feed reader), by any chance do you intend to release the source for it so that people can run it themselves?

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by jaidan »

prepend wrote: post #143
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 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…

I never experienced Yahoo Pipes however, I looked at some videos on YouTube and it appears to be similar to Node-Red. It may not be as intuitive but it looks like it may provide a similar experience.

https://nodered.org/

Possible example: https://dannysu.com/2016/12/29/huginn-to-node-red/

There are also a few RSS discussions in the Node-Red forum: https://discourse.nodered.org/

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by betwixthewires »

I use RSS for everything, especially on mobile. Every blog I follow, every news source, every video channel (YouTube or otherwise) I follow using RSS or Atom. My reader (feeder, a FOSS feed reader for android) is my morning paper.

If a site serving recurring content does not have an RSS or Atom feed, I do not subscribe. If a feed truncates content and forces me to open the article in browser I do not subscribe. If I'm trying to read what you have to say or watch your video or listen to you, I do not need to load a complex web UI to do it. I do not need an account just to follow what you want me to hear or read.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by berkes »

williamsmj wrote: post #176

I've found the github "recent activity feed", but is there really no RSS feed for https://github.com/notifications ?

Nor does there seem to be a feed for "Issues" or "Pull Requests".

At least not for private repo's (which would need some token or cookie, in the reader, obviously).

But maybe I'm missing some documentation.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by lenormf »

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…

>As a system administrator, I can use RSS to keep up to date

Along the same sentiment, I've taken things further and update my RSS feeds on demand. I use a suite of tools that pull entries[1] using Newsboat[2] and send them over SMTP (with a `sendmail` tool), optionally saving the emails[3] that couldn't be sent to disk.

Combined with a local server[4] relying on NewsAPI[5] that can pull news from sites that don't provide with an RSS feed (AP, RT…), it's a great decentralised and modular setup!

[1] https://github.com/lenormf/newsboat-sendmail [2] https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat [3] https://github.com/lenormf/sendmail-tryqueue [4] https://github.com/lenormf/news2rss [5] https://newsapi.org/

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by stexx »

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…

Great collection of rss feeds.

I build my own rss feed for HN, because i want only see posts which reach >500 Points in a week [1].

So i did for a few other websites: Reddit r/programming (at least 500 points / week)[2] Producthunt (at least 300 / week)[3]

What I'm searching, is a rss feed where i get notified when a book author release a new Book. Unfortunately i didn't found one.

[1] https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.n...

[2] https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.n...

[3] https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.n...

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by zmodem »

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…

> I've never open sourced it though because I guess it's a bit of a grey area - the sites want you to go to the full URL so they can show you ads etc

Another reason, which I think is fair, is that with full articles in the RSS feed, the feed can quickly become a fairly large chunk of data.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by mkl »

superkuh wrote: post #27
_y5hn wrote: post #23

QuiteRSS works well. It's for both Windows and Linux. https://quiterss.org/ No affiliation, just a satisfied user.

I second that. If you have a lot of feeds, thousands, then QuiteRSS is one of the readers that will work reliably. It can be ram heavy with 1k+ feeds but it does the job. In the article the author mentions one way to get RSS feeds from a youtube channel. This is how to get it from a youtube username, https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=USER_ID

Do you know if it's possible to make QuiteRSS automatically download and cache the pages of new posts it finds? It seems to wait until I click on a post before starting to load it (quite slowly).
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