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Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by dpeck »

mro_name wrote: post #168
unqueued wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

this is what Reader was and has always made me even more confused as to why Google killed it off. They had the right start for a unique take on content focused/small group discussion based social networking and the tossed it for “circles”

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by blacklight »

RSS never went away for me. My NextCloud News app hosts ~100 feeds, RSS feeds power my news dashboards at home, as well as my newsletters (who ever needs to subscribe to spammy newsletters when you can easily configure your own based on the feeds you follow, with the frequency you want, with the level of aggregation that you want?), as well as the daily/weekly digests automatically sent to my e-readers.

Curate your feeds list well, and you won't need another timeline.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by waterhouse »

soheilpro wrote: post #170

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.insta…

Hmm, I grabbed one of the links, hit "view source", searched for "atom" and "rss", and found: https://openai.com/blog/rss/

I haven't fed it into my RSS reader, which is on another machine, but, inspecting it with curl, it looks like RSS XML... does it not work for you?

It is a problem that the webpage doesn't give any visible sign that it supports RSS. That is unfortunately common; I don't know why they do that. Anyway, for what it's worth:

  # fish shell here, with an alias
  ~> for x in (P | tr -d ' '); echo $x (curl -sL $x | egrep -c -i 'rss|atom'); end 
  ... omitting the non-matches ...
  https://blog.close.com 1
  https://bloggingfordevs.com/blog 1
  https://discord.com/blog 1
  https://linktr.ee/blog 2
  https://openai.com/blog/openai-api 1
  https://segment.com/blog 2
  https://web.dev/blog 1
  https://www.linode.com/blog 4
  https://www.tradingview.com/blog/en 1

Re: I Miss RSS

#174

Post by passivate »

paxys wrote: post #48

The author paints it as some kind of conspiracy, but the simple truth is that RSS waned in popularity once push notifications became popular and widespread. Every user's RSS reader polling every website for changes every few minutes for all eternity is horribly inefficient and unfeasible to do on most platforms and devices today (especially on mobile). Pub/sub is the clear way forward, but it's just sad that there is…

I don't agree with your premise or conclusion. Its far easier for a website to just publish a dead XML file that any client can read at their own pace, as frequently as they would like. Also, anyone can create a pub/sub 'middle man' that can implement a push system for clients who want that. You can have the best of both.

Re: I Miss RSS

#177

Post by charcircuit »

eloisius wrote: post #140
2-718-281-828 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd assume that somebody who misses RSS will also be happy with pulling only few times a day and not every few minutes. That's why push became so popular but with a different subset of users. Everybody goes through a push-positive phase but some (like me) come to a conclusion that this is unhealthy and distracting in the long run - hence the fond memories of technology like RSS.

Switching back to Linux after ten years on Mac, I had completely forgotten how much I love it when my computer does _not_ notify me about anything. I have no notification system installed. It’s been a few months and I haven’t missed anything, but I feel more relaxed and focused while using the computer. Notification are mind pollution.

I like notifications on linux. It allows me to know when a livestream starts or when a person I like tweets immediately instead of me only realizing hours later.

Re: I Miss RSS

#178

Post by hammyhavoc »

baby wrote: post #162
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…

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.

Have you pointed this out to them? Ridiculous oversight.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by soheilpro »

waterhouse wrote: post #173
soheilpro wrote: post #170

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.insta…

Hmm, I grabbed one of the links, hit "view source", searched for "atom" and "rss", and found: https://openai.com/blog/rss/ I haven't fed it into my RSS reader, which is on another machine, but, inspecting it with curl, it looks like RSS XML... does it not work for you? It is a problem that the webpage doesn't give any visible sign that it supports RSS. That is unfortunately common; I don't know why they do that. Anyw…

I always check the source code as well to find the RSS/Atom link but looks like I've missed a few of them.

However, some of them like (tradingview.com/blog/en) mention words RSS/Atom but they don't have a feed and for some of them (like blog.close.com) it's broken.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by eloisius »

charcircuit wrote: post #177
eloisius wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Switching back to Linux after ten years on Mac, I had completely forgotten how much I love it when my computer does _not_ notify me about anything. I have no notification system installed. It’s been a few months and I haven’t missed anything, but I feel more relaxed and focused while using the computer. Notification are mind pollution.

I like notifications on linux. It allows me to know when a livestream starts or when a person I like tweets immediately instead of me only realizing hours later.

Haha, I suppose this illustrates how well Linux can work for every different preference, but both of those sound like exactly what I don’t want at all. Being called to pay attention to something, immediately, because some other person did something, not directly interacting with me, is the antithesis of how I want to spend my time.
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