I Still Use RSS • Hacker News Board

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by robdelacruz » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 1:02 PM UTC

Agree 100% RSS was one of the best things in the open web. I use it everyday to browse through headlines on my favorite sites.

Here's what I use to view my RSS feeds: http://freerss.robdelacruz.com/ you can use it to drag/drop and rearrange your feeds into an album like layout.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by robdelacruz » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 1:03 PM UTC

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…

Big fan of RSS. Feel free to try out my RSS reader tool: http://freerss.robdelacruz.com/

Drag/drop rearrange rss feeds in an album-like layout. Open source too.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by pedro1976 » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 1:09 PM UTC

robdelacruz wrote: post #301

Agree 100% RSS was one of the best things in the open web. I use it everyday to browse through headlines on my favorite sites. Here's what I use to view my RSS feeds: http://freerss.robdelacruz.com/ you can use it to drag/drop and rearrange your feeds into an album like layout.

Sadly with RSS we never got to the point of building networks. People subscribed to the producers directly, but never to brokers. My underlying assumption is than news coorps are brokers in a way, we should not build a network based on them, cause they have a conflict of interest. So everyone ends up maintaining a huge list of feeds, rather than relying on other.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by pedro1976 » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 1:12 PM UTC

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…

For those who require very custom, niche feeds, you might want to try rss-proxy [0] which automatically maps HTML markup to RSS feeds.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by amitport » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

cecida wrote: post #158

prepend wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Some parts of it were due to an Israeli startup they bought, called Dapper. Seems to me like they bought it just to take some patents and kill it.

It was interesting, but does it align with Yahoo's interest?

Kind of like Google buying of freebase. They made a few interesting projects on top of it and then killed those...

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by InnerGargoyle » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 1:45 PM UTC

_y5hn wrote: post #23

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

my problem with quiterss is that it takes ages to save data after close. idn why but if you loose power in between next time either you have to update all the feeds or the state which were you in last time.

waiting this to be fixed.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by Jnr » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 1:46 PM UTC

And I still use IRC and other old protocols and tools. I personally don't see anything wrong or special about it.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by loughnane » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 1:54 PM UTC

RSS is great for me, and it gets supercharged by using huggin.

With huggin I generate filtered RSS feeds from Twitter,Craigslist, and other various sites.

I then have the feeds publish once/day so that I’m not constantly checking. I view then use miniflux as a reader.

It def requires some setup but it’s the healthiest my relationship with the internet had ever been.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by loughnane » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 1:55 PM UTC

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 mentioned it above but you may find Huginn an interesting tool.

Re: I Still Use RSS

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Post by loughnane » Thu, Feb 04, 2021, 1:56 PM UTC

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.

I feel like I’m plugging huginn all over this thread but they have a phantomjs agent that makes it fairly straightforward to scrape a Craigslist search