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Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by thefz »

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.

> RSS is as present and useful as it was 20 years ago

Precisley, that's how I got to this post. In this day, keeping a list of interesting sites and being able to consult them all from a single place is ever more useful.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by pinkano »

dgudkov wrote: post #134
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.

Did you try using Leo, the AI-powered Feedly's robot that supposedly can do smart filtering? I'm curious how good it is.

Leo is really great to let you focus on topics you care about without the overwhelm. You might also try Web Alerts https://blog.feedly.com/how-to-use-leo-web-alerts-to-track-e...

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by a2800276 »

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'm also surprised no one has pointed out the irony that the author's blog doesn't have an RSS feed. That would be the least you could do to keep it around.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by mattowen_uk »

The main problem is that a lot of sites no longer show a link to their RSS feeds, or include a meta tag for it.

So I've resorted to trying the following until the RSS reed comes up:

  example.com/feed
  example.com/feed.xml
  example.com/rss
  example.com/rss.xml
  example.com/xml
  ...etc
In most cases the feed WILL be there somewhere as the feature is still in the web framework that's being used.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by baud147258 »

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.

Same. Though I don't follow as many sites. Really useful for blogs and website with irregular/no update schedule

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by baud147258 »

a2800276 wrote: post #223
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'm also surprised no one has pointed out the irony that the author's blog doesn't have an RSS feed. That would be the least you could do to keep it around.

> I have a feed for this blog

it doesn't seem to be linked anywhere, but I think that's: https://www.wilcosky.com/atom

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by minroot »

RSS and others are good, but many popular readers, like Feedly, sucks.

Currently using InoReader, I reported one issue, not once but 3 times, still no light on it.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by vidarh »

blitzar wrote: post #93
jefftk wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here is what I found looking at my server logs a few months ago: Feedly: 7min Feedbin: 15min Bloglovin: 30min Dreamwidth Studios: 30min Feed Wrangler: 30min NewsBlur: 30min BazQux: 40min inoreader.com: 1hr theoldreader.com: 2hr pine.blog: 24hr https://www.jefftk.com/p/looking-at-rss-user-agents

Also worth mentioning the obvious, feedly etc is updating all the users on their platrom with a single call to your site (every 7 minutes in your case). No doubt they scale the update frequency by how popular it is on their platform / frequently updated / however often the ai decides it is needed.

Yeah, I ran a niche aggregator for a few years and we polled ca. 3m feeds a day. Every time a feed had an update since the last time we'd polled it we'd subtract a percentage of the polling interval with a floor of about 5m. Every time there wasn't an update we'd reduce the rate until a ceiling of about 24h. Very simple and no doubt you could do better but better wasn't necessary.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by vidarh »

onli wrote: post #135
blitzar wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also worth mentioning the obvious, feedly etc is updating all the users on their platrom with a single call to your site (every 7 minutes in your case). No doubt they scale the update frequency by how popular it is on their platform / frequently updated / however often the ai decides it is needed.

Should also depend on whether a push extension is used, then the reader can fetch the feed less often. The feed of that blog seems to be a plain RSS feed without that.

Everyone used to "ping" sites whose only purpose was to provide feeds of when blogs changed, so all the aggregators would use that as a starting point anyway. But really it isn't that necessary - there are few feeds where getting things to your subscribers that urgently matters enough that you necessarily want them to hammer your site the moment you publish.

Re: I Miss RSS

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Post by medstrom »

Semaphor wrote: post #203
capybara_2020 wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Active RSS user here till Google killed Reader. I tried using Feedly last year. Added feeds and it was HORRIBLE experience. Not Feedly but the actual feeds. Some of them give you the title and then tell you to go to actual website to read the article. Others has a virtually non-existent summary. During RSS's heydays I remember being able to just see the summary and click on it and read the article right there and the…

Those sites existed back during the Google Reader era already. I don’t even avoid those, and currently have only one title only, and 2 or 3 title + short summary sites in my TT-RSS list, everything else is full text.

Not to mention, you can actually file an issue on the blog owner's github (if present), making a ruckus about the feed quality. I did it once and he was happy to patch it - after familiarizing himself with what a feed even was, as he didn't know his site had one.
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