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I Miss RSS
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Re: I Miss RSS
#252I follow Hacker News through RSS, as well as most webcomics that I follow. There is one webcomic I enjoy, but can't get an RSS feed, because it's on a service similar to WebToons.
WebToons does have feeds, but they only show the first frame. Then you need to wait 10s for their shitty JS to load before it starts to download the comic.
I really want to make a scraper that will pull the full comic into the feed but don't want to play the cat-and-mouse game.
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#253Since my browser removed the two-click feature for sending a site's feed URL to my RSS reader, I now do a bit more manual work to find RSS URLs myself. Twitter lost its native RSS support, but Nitter provides RSS links. Example: https://nitter.net/eff/rss Reddit provides RSS for most listings, including search results. All you have to do is append .rss to the path part of the URL. Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/ha…
There are extensions that will give you the two-click experience back. For example I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/want-my-rss/
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#254Android and Microsoft are reviving RSS slowly. There'll be a big RSS renaissance coming in the next few years.
Do you have any info about what Android and Microsoft are doing here? I would be interested in seeing what they are working on.
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#255Earlier 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.
Of course it's not "too expensive" or "too confusing" but the demand is practically nonexistent.
> but the demand is practically nonexistent.
You mispelled "the way for me to monetize it is practically non-existent".
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#256Earlier 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.
Of course it's not "too expensive" or "too confusing" but the demand is practically nonexistent.
I think the demand is high but doesn’t show up in some dumb ways that people think represents demand.
I get tons of requests in my web logs for my RSS feed. And I’m not a big site or anything, just have a scrub personal blog.
So that’s lots of demand.
I suspect that every platform owner sees their rss requests and sees it as high. So any claims that there’s no demand without clarifying that they don’t get http gets for RSS feeds seems disingenuous to me.
“I don’t see any demand for RSS when I ignore looking at all the RSS requests I get tiny site.”
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#257> I have a feed for this blog although I don’t think anyone would be interested in subscribing.
OP has at least two subscribers on the Innoreader RSS reader according to their little subscriber widget thing (but I'm not signing up for an account to post a comment just to tell them that, so hopefully they read these comments and get a smile today :) )
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#258When 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 also still use RSS and have several hundred subscriptions, but the OP isn't wrong and it's far more pervasive than just Twitter. One of the biggest ones for me is that Spotify is buying up podcasts that previously did have an RSS feed and then removing the feed, for example. Other services are doing the same. For another example, when Bloomberg bought City Lab recently they removed the RSS feed. I've had this happen all the time, so my feeds list and podcast lists would be dwindling if I weren't actively seeking out things to replace those with.
Is it still useful? Yes. Is it also under attack? Yes.
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#259Douglas Adams, [how to learn to love the internet]: 1. everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2. anything that gets invented between then and before you turn 30 is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3. anything that gets invented after you’re 30 is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we kn…
>3. anything that gets invented after you’re 30 is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. This started happening when I was 14 (~2007) and really started to accelerate after I was 20 (~2013). I don't correlate this with me getting old but more like getting more and more…
And from the other side of the coin: I'm in my late thirties now and there also has been plenty of new tech (or improvements on existing tech) from the last decade that has me really excited. Unsurprisingly, almost all of it can be used outside of the aforementioned bubble of "profiteering, surveillance and bullshit".
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#260When 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 that what the author really means is that he misses RSS feeds from Twitter.
I get RSS for some Twitter accounts via a Nitter instance. Sadly, some institutions and people only spread news via Twitter.