We need one central place to find feeds, see this relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?
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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?
#62I made https://blogdb.org/ to collect blogs from around the Internet, it gets an RSS feed of the blogs. I posted a Show HN about it yesterday that didn't get much traction. The code is all open source, at https://github.com/symkat/BlogDB/ and I wrote an article on my own blog about initially writing the software from design to deployment: https://modfoss.com/building-blogdb.html
Bookmarked, thanks for the great resource.
One minor thing: The preview images take up a lot of space on mobile, I have to scroll forever just to look through all the options. Perhaps the preview could be text only at least on smaller screens?
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?
#63I am seeing a lot of ideas around just increasing exposure of what's there; but to bring RSS back full-force would require a new innovative use (that safely coexists with current syndicated content).
What I am thinking is a lowtech social network that utilizes a phone/desktop client for writing posts that then other users can subscribe to via RSS. The client would also provide a feed reader which allows you to either intermingle social and web RSS or setup "folders" to keep your feeds organized how you like. No servers would be ideal so that it's just a new browser paradigm.
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#64A bit tangential, but something I really like about RSS feeds on blogs and the like is that they're relatively easy to parse, and as a result relatively easy to do programmatic stuff with them. For example, when I had a blog a million years ago, I wanted to add a "search" engine to it (just a really dumb string comparison). It was pretty easy to do it client-side, in JavaScript, by reading the RSS feed generated by J…
I’m interested in this idea, would be cool to have a library for custom on-site search. Just plug in the rss feeds to parse and then add the box to your website.
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?
#65I don't think Firefox will re-add built-in RSS support after removing it in 2018 (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks), but the replacement addon whose development spun out of that deprecation is quite good. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/
For Feedly users I also recommend this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly-notifi... It can be opened as a sidebar turning my browser into my feed reader.
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?
#66A bit tangential, but something I really like about RSS feeds on blogs and the like is that they're relatively easy to parse, and as a result relatively easy to do programmatic stuff with them. For example, when I had a blog a million years ago, I wanted to add a "search" engine to it (just a really dumb string comparison). It was pretty easy to do it client-side, in JavaScript, by reading the RSS feed generated by J…
I’m interested in this idea, would be cool to have a library for custom on-site search. Just plug in the rss feeds to parse and then add the box to your website.
Yeah, I was pretty proud of myself for thinking of it (this was a long time ago when I was still kind of learning). I'm sure using a real "search engine" thing like Solr or something could give you even better results than a dumb "does string contain" thing that I did.
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?
#67I just recently moved back to RSS after being fed up with all the dark patterns and insane ads. My main goal is to wrestle back control of what I choose to read instead of being led around so much. It's been great so far but the setup was a bit onerous.
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?
#68Perhaps the most important thing we can do is fund a scraper that creates an RSS feed for sites that don't have one.
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?
#69I’ve been using feedly for like a decade now. I also use it to discover content.
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?
#70https://ncase.me/rss/ is a nice intro to rss for the uninitiated.