Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

Post by samizdis » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 7:02 PM UTC

imglorp wrote: post #54

petercooper wrote: post #18

I think every email newsletter should offer an RSS feed as a matter of course. With all of ours, you just stick /rss on the end of the URL and off you go :-) e.g. https://javascriptweekly.com/rss With that said, I think there are some interesting opportunities for turning certain types of email into RSS feeds generally . I think it'd be really cool to have all of the random and very low priority emails landing at the…

Another HN today is talking about tracking pixels in newsletter mails so the sender can evaluate effectiveness. I bet a general mail-rss bridge with many subscribers would make them sad.

Post by Siilwyn » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 7:03 PM UTC

petecooper wrote: post #49

Aside: a question for proponents of syndication (e.g. Atom, RSS) – as a publisher, are there other formats that should be investigated?

Post by xpil » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 7:12 PM UTC

beagle3 wrote: post #43

neogodless wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha! I had almost forgot. About a decade ago (time frame made up / guessed) I used Thunderbird as my RSS reader. Just checked and it can still do that. Since it's my primary email reader, voila! (But I use Feedly.com web site on computer and Feedly app on phone now which is easier for managing RSS than Thunderbird by a mile. Though looking below there is Export/Import of feeds, I'm not sure there's a way to just sync…

I used to use thunderbird to read RSS. The problem though is that if you don’t poll often enough (and for some feeds, that’s every few hours) you’ll miss articles and updates — and my laptop is sometimes off for a couple of days. I’ve switched to NewsBlur a few years ago. Happy paying customer. (But bot affiliated). The bonus is synchronized phone/laptop/desktop reading status.

Post by TheRealPomax » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 7:25 PM UTC

asjldkfin wrote: post #62

TheRealPomax wrote: post #55

How about... we do both? Because it's not exactly too much effort to set up an atom and rss feed to go along with your email newsletter. Can we stop (subtly in this case, not so subtly in others) crusading against tech that we don't personally like, when thousands upon thousands rely on it because that's the format they're comfortable with and want to receive periodicals in? Set up a system that meets people where th…

I know you mean well, but this post is genuinely idiotic and the definition of a straw-man argument. That, or you did not even bother clicking into the link and see what it is.

Post by mfbx9da4 » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 7:37 PM UTC

TheRealPomax wrote: post #68

iamdamian wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d guess that the OP is responding to the phrase “kill the newsletter” rather than the specific tool.

that. It's a perfectly fine tool, but "kill the newsletter" is an incredibly bad rallying cry and should be questioned.