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Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by taude »

taude wrote: post #157
taude wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just logged into my Feedly for the first time in a couple years (maybe longer). I had moved all my RSS from Google Reader to Feedly back when all that went down. Turns out, most of the blogs I subscribed to back in the day are now defunct or not updated much. I think that's why I eventually stopped going to my Feedly for RSS aggreggation, and instead for the few moments a day I want to read news/waste time, I just…

BTW, I just also realized, that I get a lot of my articles/news from my Google News widget on my Android phone (and in the Google News app on my iPad), and the AI on that has curated a pretty decent list of topics that I like to follow.

Final, final realization/thoughts. It's pretty obvious I let the curation of my Feedly go stale and that I should clean out the old cruft, and give it a try again. I forgot about the nice keyboard short-cuts for navigating article titles. And it's also nice way to view heavy news sources, like The Verge.

However, as a user I'd need to decide: do I want to open the funnel of content like this where I feel obligated to read all the stuff in my feed? I kind of feel like I don't need to be so diligent with these things. And if that's the case, my use case looks more and more like only using RSS for super specific, niche websites that I don't want to remember to visit on a regular basis. Which could be OK, but then I have to remember to visit my RSS reader.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by baby »

jonp888 wrote: post #114
karaterobot wrote: post #82

When I see articles like this, my reaction is always: when did RSS go away? I have close to 200 sites in my Feedly list, and I have trouble keeping up with all the articles I get from RSS every day. I think that what the author really means is that he misses RSS feeds from Twitter. I don't use Twitter, so from my perspective, RSS is as present and useful as it was 20 years ago.

It's depressingly and irritatingly common to come across podcasts now which provide links to a dizzying array of podcast aggregation services but not to o their RSS feed, even though they definitely have one because it's how you feed data to these services in the first place. I suspect a lot of blogs only have a feed now because it's a default feature of the blog platform they use rather than because they see it as i…

One offender is buzzsprout, which has an RSS feed but no link to the actual episode... So you know when there's a new episode, but you have to google it to find it.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by ryukafalz »

jerf wrote: post #22
bisby wrote: post #13

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When Google reader shut down, I moved to feedly for like a week. Then I started getting anxiety that feedly would shut down too. Because if google could kill off a product i relied on, anyone could. And that got me into self hosting and running my own services. ttrss was basically my first self hosted thing almost a decade ago. It was great. And then it turned out the guy running it was a bit not pleasant, and I didn…

Having self-hosted for a long time, I find it's getting easier in a lot of ways what with Docker and all. I'm starting to wonder where "Sandstorm 2.0" is. Sandstorm, for those who don't know, was basically an attempt to make self hosting really viable, but was tragically ahead of its time because it predated Docker. So they burned tons of effort on sandboxing, and wrapping existing applications into their sandbox, an…

Sandstorm lives, by the way - I host my TTRSS instance on my Sandstorm server. It's gotten a bit more active again lately. :)

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by 42jd »

karaterobot wrote: post #82

When I see articles like this, my reaction is always: when did RSS go away? I have close to 200 sites in my Feedly list, and I have trouble keeping up with all the articles I get from RSS every day. I think that what the author really means is that he misses RSS feeds from Twitter. I don't use Twitter, so from my perspective, RSS is as present and useful as it was 20 years ago.

I agree wholly with this. I only very recently started using RSS and almost every site/blog has one that produces quality content. For example the St. Louis Fed has a few high quality blog feeds and when I couldn’t find the RSS feed I sent them an email and lo and behold, there was an RSS feed to each one (just on a different page that I missed). It seems to be a rarity that good content feeds don’t have RSS.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by rgrieselhuber »

karaterobot wrote: post #82

When I see articles like this, my reaction is always: when did RSS go away? I have close to 200 sites in my Feedly list, and I have trouble keeping up with all the articles I get from RSS every day. I think that what the author really means is that he misses RSS feeds from Twitter. I don't use Twitter, so from my perspective, RSS is as present and useful as it was 20 years ago.

I think it’s mostly a question of developer mindshare around RSS and syndication technologies. The early 2000s were a golden age in this sense but we all just let the centralized social media platforms decide that all innovation was moving there.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by mro_name »

unqueued wrote: post #154
jonp888 wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's depressingly and irritatingly common to come across podcasts now which provide links to a dizzying array of podcast aggregation services but not to o their RSS feed, even though they definitely have one because it's how you feed data to these services in the first place. I suspect a lot of blogs only have a feed now because it's a default feature of the blog platform they use rather than because they see it as i…

I believe that there was an agenda to kill RSS, very much like how the auto makers in the United States conspired to kill public transit. I don't buy any of the arguments not to implement it. I don't think it is too expensive or confusing. I think it is too empowering to users and inconvenient to marketers.

I bet it scared the shit out of Zuck and still does today.

Add websub and few more and you have a social network, duh. Decentral. People owned.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by marginalia_nu »

My search engine has found RSS feeds on about 70% of the domains it's indexed. It may be dead for the big sites, but I do think RSS is alive and well in the personal website category.

(I gathered them because I had this idea of maybe polling RSS feeds of high ranked domains to check for changes without having to do a full re-crawl. It's not something I do, it's more of an experiment at this point)

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by soheilpro »

The sad truth is, nobody bothers to add support for RSS if they write a new custom blog engine.

I've started to keep a list of all the websites that I've tried to subscribe but didn't support RSS:

   https://angel.co/blog
   https://blog.close.com
   https://blog.messagebird.com
   https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us.html
   https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us.html
   https://bloggingfordevs.com/blog
   https://business.instagram.com/blog
   https://developer.spotify.com/community/news/announcements
   https://discord.com/blog
   https://frontapp.com/blog
   https://indiehackers.com
   https://joelcalifa.com/blog
   https://linktr.ee/blog
   https://mixpanel.com/blog
   https://openai.com/blog/openai-api
   https://paystack.com/blog
   https://segment.com/blog
   https://telegram.org/blog
   https://transferwise.com/gb/blog
   https://web.dev/blog
   https://www.anyscale.com/blog
   https://www.binance.com/en/blog
   https://www.bugsnag.com/blog
   https://www.changeinvest.com/blog
   https://www.hackthebox.com/blog
   https://www.integromat.com/en/blog
   https://www.linode.com/blog
   https://www.loom.com/blog
   https://www.makerpad.co/blog
   https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en
   https://zapier.com/engineering
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