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Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by mackrevinack »

acdha wrote: post #85
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…

Newsblur has a setting per-site which allows you to have it use either the feed body or attempt to pull in the full text. When I was commuting on the subway (prior to ubiquitous underground coverage) here in DC, I used that heavily. One nice thing is that downloading it on your client avoids the site having to get in the middle of the copyright concerns about replicating their servers.

nice! I've been using newsblur for a few years now but I've never delved into the settings. is this option only available on the web version? i can't see anything on the android app

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by nicbou »

jacurtis wrote: post #193
nicbou wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect that it's only there because WordPress includes it.

The fact that Wordpress adds it automatically is a huge win because half or more of all websites are Wordpress. So there are a lot of content creators that don't even know what RSS is and yet you are able to subscribe to them because Wordpress automatically provides a full-text RSS feed for every Wordpress blog. I built my personal blog on a static site generator (Gridsome) and had to add RSS to my site intentionally…

Same. I had to add my own RSS feed, and didn't do it until I needed it to crawl my own content. Even then, I won't waste screen space with an RSS icon.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by TrianguloY »

disillusioned1 wrote: post #262
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...

Thanks for the reply. I've tested it but I've been unable to make it to show notifications. I want the app to sync automatically each hour, and if there are unread articles show a notification, so I can simply click it and start reading (news+ does this)

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by tentacles »

jamesponddotco wrote: post #214
jjav wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I use https://rssby.email.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by [deleted] »

lenormf wrote: post #277
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 pr…

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Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by leokennis »

_jal wrote: post #99
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 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…

I use Feedbin, and read Feedbin on my Mac and iPhone using the Reeder app. Both are able to extract the full text (automatically on a per site basis if wanted) of most sites without issues.

I guess they just follow the URL, extract the body text the same way that sites like Instapaper do it, and give that back.

Probably more RSS readers can do the same.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by leokennis »

ymolodtsov wrote: post #285

I love RSS but I also believe there's not enough innovation in the space. Feels like most developers are burnt by Facebook and don't ever want to do anything other than providing you with a chronological feed of all feeds. And then you subscribe to too many feeds, get information overload and miss content because you just "Mark all as read" when you're tired. Or skim through the headlines too fast. I'd like an algori…

I like your ideas, however, there's nothing wrong with "I have 800 articles in my RSS reader and I just don't have the energy right now - mark all as read".

If something is truly important, it will get to you in some other way.

As with anything, don't let it become a chore when it should bring you joy.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by ymolodtsov »

leokennis wrote: post #298
ymolodtsov wrote: post #285

I love RSS but I also believe there's not enough innovation in the space. Feels like most developers are burnt by Facebook and don't ever want to do anything other than providing you with a chronological feed of all feeds. And then you subscribe to too many feeds, get information overload and miss content because you just "Mark all as read" when you're tired. Or skim through the headlines too fast. I'd like an algori…

I like your ideas, however, there's nothing wrong with "I have 800 articles in my RSS reader and I just don't have the energy right now - mark all as read". If something is truly important, it will get to you in some other way. As with anything, don't let it become a chore when it should bring you joy.

That makes sense, but to me that just sound like an algorithm, albeit an extremely stupid one (only show the latest pieces and bury the rest).

I want it to be smarter.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by acdha »

mackrevinack wrote: post #291
acdha wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Newsblur has a setting per-site which allows you to have it use either the feed body or attempt to pull in the full text. When I was commuting on the subway (prior to ubiquitous underground coverage) here in DC, I used that heavily. One nice thing is that downloading it on your client avoids the site having to get in the middle of the copyright concerns about replicating their servers.

nice! I've been using newsblur for a few years now but I've never delved into the settings. is this option only available on the web version? i can't see anything on the android app

It’s in the site settings menu on the website. I haven’t used the Android app in years, so I can’t help there.
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