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Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Post by onli »

Fogest wrote: post #106
onli wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. You need only one, either Atom or RSS.

I believe you can also however add on to Atom/RSS. Many feed readers now also support the WebSub [1] standard which allows them to receive instant push notifications of new articles. It kinda speeds up getting things as you don't have to rely on exclusively the pulling model. Sites like WordPress, Blogger, FeedBurner, Mastodon, and Friendica I believe are all examples of sites that support it. It basically extends At…

That's correct. Some might still now it under the old name from when it was a google initiative, pubsubhubbub :)

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Post by jasonv »

iamacyborg wrote: post #94
jasonv wrote: post #28

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You have to view and manage and then delete them. 99% of my inboxes are emails from non-humans. I'm ready to stream them like RSS or Twitter.. and catch the ones I care about.

You don’t have to do those things. The earth will not stop if there are unread emails in your inbox.

That's true. And I unsubscribe from a lot. And I filter the rest. But I scan and review and like just enough content to stay engaged. But I'm moving closer and closer to unsubscribing from all of them.

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Post by ymolodtsov »

leafac wrote: post #86

It’s a nice surprise to check HN and have my project featured on the front page. Thanks polm23 for posting and everyone else for the nice words!

Seems it'd take significant costs to run it, how do you still manage to do that?

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Post by ymolodtsov »

benlumen wrote: post #12

Nice idea. Related - Is there anything that can add the select number of Twitter accounts I want to follow to this Atom or RSS feed? Without exposing myself to toxic replies, toxic suggested tweets and toxic trending topics? I've thought for years there should be something like that. Presumably it's a grey area with APIs or scraping.

A lot of various apps do that by connecting to the Twitter API. I read Twitter through Feedbin.

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Post by leafac »

ymolodtsov wrote: post #123
leafac wrote: post #86

It’s a nice surprise to check HN and have my project featured on the front page. Thanks polm23 for posting and everyone else for the nice words!

Seems it'd take significant costs to run it, how do you still manage to do that?

The most significant cost has been my time, but that’s my pet project in which I get to experiment with new technologies, so it pays off nicely.

Also, you can support me: Recurring (Patreon): https://patreon.com/leafac / One-time (PayPal): https://paypal.me/LeandroFacchinetti

In terms of server costs, it all runs smoothly on a $6/month DigialOcean droplet. Even when I end up on the front-page of HN (it’s the second time this happens). And there’s also the ~$10/year for the domain.

There’s actually a fun story behind this: The biggest constraint is bandwidth (~500GB/month). I was using S3 and at some point that’d amount to $50/month. But DigitalOcean droplets give you 1TB/month, so to save money I rearchitected the whole thing to just use the filesystem. It turned out to be simpler and nicer to maintain, too. Fewer moving parts.

Fun stuff…

Re: Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

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Post by wiw2 »

Fogest wrote: post #105
wiw2 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of my favorite hacks: I made a google appscript that scans a list of RSS feeds to email weekly digests. Surprisingly simple, and much more useful then running a separate RSS reader in my opinion. I have to confess: little automations like this with low barrier of entry is where I find most value in tech. Simple and practical.

I use a self-hosted RSS reader, I'm curious if you could use something like that and have some email digests generated from that. I know tt-rss supports sending email digests. You could set it up to check sites on a less frequent schedule and then the setup sounds just like what you're talking about. You may be fine with your solution so this comment is more geared towards others who are interested in a similar solut…

Absolutely. There's more than one way to skin a cat.

The "email digest" approach is basically DIY newsletter. While this approach works for me, it may not work well for others. YMMV.

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Post by W00kasz »

t0astbread wrote: post #39
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #16

I think we should go the opposite way. I think we should push more onto email. email is pretty ubiquitous. Nearly everyone online has email. It's as close to universal as anything else for accessing people. Instead of having a dozen different chat apps, push chats to email. Instead of a half dozen Slack wannabe apps, push all that to email. We should expand the email protocol to support that.

Two reasons why I don't think this is a good idea: 1. Mixing different applications in one inbox would be a mess for a lot of people (e.g. your IM would drown out important work email) 2. Privacy - avoiding unique online identifiers when they're not needed is a good idea

I solved 1 by using an alias of my email for reading (e.g.,myemail+reading@gmail.com), using that to subscribe to newsletters, create a filter in Gmail to have anything sent to that email skip my inbox and apply a "reading" label, then use the multiple inboxes feature in Gmail to display a distinct section for emails sent to that alias. It works really well for me and keeps newsletters from cluttering things. I also have a Gmail label widget on my android phone that opens up my Gmail app straight to the reading label. It all works like a charm!
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