Time was that a service was great if it gave you what you asked for. It is ironic that now RSS is great because it only gives you what you asked for.
I Still Use RSS
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Re: I Still Use RSS
#362I use https://blogtrottr.com/ to have RSS content sent to me via email. I find that's a pretty clean and simple interface to the blogs and webcomics, etc. that I want to follow.
I have a lot of trouble understanding why RSS seems to be perpetually falling out of favor. I guess because it disrupts monetizability. If so, that's unfortunate.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#363I'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…
This would largely have saved RSS for me. I'd argue there was a glorious era in late 2000s where you could almost replace your browser with a good feed reader and get vast majority of news/info this way. It was just so nice to have a single UI surface for all news stories rather than poking through many different websites. I understand my using the sites that way contributes nothing really to their bottom line, I nev…
A lot of web pages are just completely unusable or unreadable now.
It uses all sorts of manipulations to auto play video ads, pop ups, picture unders, user tracking, page interaction telemetry, etc.
All kinds of nonsense to display an article to you, which if it really is important, then another writer would have also written about it.
Some websites I just avoid completely, when I see the url.
These websites should just go with a pay-to-read subscription model instead. If their junk is interesting enough, then they’ll find enough people willing to pay a few cents to read it.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#364I use https://blogtrottr.com/ to have RSS content sent to me via email. I find that's a pretty clean and simple interface to the blogs and webcomics, etc. that I want to follow. I have a lot of trouble understanding why RSS seems to be perpetually falling out of favor. I guess because it disrupts monetizability. If so, that's unfortunate.
They do insert a giant advertisement in every email which was a dealbreaker for me.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#365I use https://blogtrottr.com/ to have RSS content sent to me via email. I find that's a pretty clean and simple interface to the blogs and webcomics, etc. that I want to follow. I have a lot of trouble understanding why RSS seems to be perpetually falling out of favor. I guess because it disrupts monetizability. If so, that's unfortunate.
They do insert a giant advertisement in every email which was a dealbreaker for me.
That's true, but you can upgrade to a paid subscription to get rid of the ads. I'm good with their getting paid to provide this service, one way or another.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Thank you! I am glad you liked my blog. :)
Re: I Still Use RSS
#367take a look at my latest project https://datorss.com
Re: I Still Use RSS
#368I use emacs elfeed for my feeds, however I found it frustrating that my different feed categories - news, views, tech, podcasts, etc - all get jumbled up out of the box into one massive rss firehose. Eventually I realised I could simply use bookmark.el to quickly create filtered search versions of my feeds based on their respective tags, and now I'm much happier. After setting it up, a `C-x r l` (bookmark-menu-list)…
Thanks for sharing this.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
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-chan…
I am also interested in something similar for other subreddits. Is this open source ?
It is:
https://github.com/ste-xx/social_channel_notifier
But it lacks on documentation.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#370I 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 think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Then again, staying on top of everything is overrated. For example, knowing every time someone responded to you on HN is most likely a net negative. They're likely to just be arguing with you. Better to navigate to your comment history on HN when you feel like arguing than getting notified on each reply. This comment is a good example. You were jus…
At the risk of proving your point: why would I bother commenting if I didn't want to have a conversation? I'm either shouting into the void to hear my own figurative voice, or I think other people might actually be interested in what I have to say.
I'm really grateful to the GP, because I didn't have a solution for getting notified when I have a reply here, so I mostly wound up missing them.