I am sure that RSS is the way to go, to fight clutter and stay on top of the information noise out there. I love Reeder https://www.reederapp.com - a really good looking and well designed RSS reader. (unfortunately only for the apple eco system).
Back to the Future with RSS
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Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#22What would it take to get Firefox to support RSS again? With support I mean: 1. To detect RSS feeds and show an icon in the UI 2. Render RSS files, so they look better than raw text 3. Link that UI icon to a subscribe function: Show a configurable list of RSS Readers and send the feed to the subscribe URL of the selected one. This can already be added with extensions, but it would boost RSS adoption if it were a defa…
After a 12 year hiatus I got Thunderbird again and have been enjoying it as both a mail client and RSS reader. Whilst I do miss the Firefox functionality, I'm happy with Thunderbird
This would be more about making RSS visible for browser users than making Firefox a feedreader. There are many great readers. But the one thing where RSS really is worse off now than it was a decade ago is discoverability. That hurts the open web. Making a change in a browser could improve the situation a lot, and the one browser that would fit to that is Firefox.
And it would be a huge marketing win for Mozilla in tech circles.
Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#23RSS is great. But it’s just a delivery mechanism. A great reading experience for me is a chronological news feed, and a list of each source’s latest post. I don’t check my newsfeed daily so a list of each source’s latest post and when they last updated is critical for me to not miss out.
I use https://sumi.news which has both of these views, and can follow RSS, Twitter, and newsletters. Another reader with the per-feed view is https://fraidyc.at, but it’s a browser extension with no newsfeed view.
Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#24What would it take to get Firefox to support RSS again? With support I mean: 1. To detect RSS feeds and show an icon in the UI 2. Render RSS files, so they look better than raw text 3. Link that UI icon to a subscribe function: Show a configurable list of RSS Readers and send the feed to the subscribe URL of the selected one. This can already be added with extensions, but it would boost RSS adoption if it were a defa…
I use Feed Preview https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feed-preview/
The extension really covers the functionality. That with a slightly nicer design and on by default, that is what is needed.
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#26The tech is great, the feeds are just garbage / 2nd tier citizens. Garbage in, garbage out rule still lives. e.g. I've got an economist sub - a reputable source of news. Checked out the feed...picked one...week in review. Title on every post is week in review. Content of post is a link. No context, no summary, no single sentence...nothing.i.e. Would need to click through to find out topic on each one. Might as well n…
I have Economist feeds like this so what are you seeing that's different? It works fine for Economist feeds in my experience. https://www.economist.com/feeds/print-sections/69/leaders.xm...
This one as an example. ( https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/rss.xml ). No descriptions, useless titles.
Business this week
Politics this week
KAL’s cartoon
Politics this week
Business this week
etc
Was more about the wider point than bitching about economist: RSS readers are in a uniquely vulnerable position. There is damn near zero incentive to do this right from providers PoV - if anything the opposite. If you're trying to consume news/info better that seems like a bad starting point to me...even with superior tools.
I've got a self-hosted freshrss install floating around on my home server...so might give it another try at some point. Not massively optimistic given the dynamics though. Everything is about dark patterns these days, not open ad free convenient hard to monetize stuff like RSS.
Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#27I may be biased, but I really love RSS. Did you know that Aaron Swartz worked on the RSS spec when he was 14 years old?
Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#28A relevant piece, while we discuss RSS. Since RSS is closed to revisions, new tech is emerging. [0] Nobody Cares About Feeds Anymore
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#29RSS has a lot of benefits for accessibility that we don't talk about enough. I often wish RSS was still a thing so I can diff pages when they update. The content is what matters not the chrome.
RSS still very much is a thing. I got here via RSS.
Re: Back to the Future with RSS
#30I am sure that RSS is the way to go, to fight clutter and stay on top of the information noise out there. I love Reeder https://www.reederapp.com - a really good looking and well designed RSS reader. (unfortunately only for the apple eco system).
Yes, seconding Reeder here as well -- highly recommend it on iOS/macOS.