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I am 100% in on this, I use rss notification on my website (temporary.chat) to notify users of new messages, the code is open source, perhaps it can be used as an easy platform to diffuse content via rss (works for images too) https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporar...
I 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 side…
I love and miss RSS as much as the next hacker, but it's weird to see an increasing trend of technological nostalgia starting to emerge. To be clear, I also think the web has gone wrong and miss coherent and useful web search, exploring interesting user created content (people have mentioned the return of web rings) and curating my own news feed via RSS. But it's strange to me that when I started everything was about…
Besides, I could say the same thing about electric cars. Your neighbor's new Tesla? Why is he going back 100 years in time? Nostalgia? Or new potential?
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Some people get obsessed with trying to read everything through RSS and never going to a web page. I've never understood that. I find invoking the NYT especially funny because they have MANY RSS feeds, letting you filter by sections.
That's because a lot of us like to read offline and via e-ink. It's replaced a newspaper for many folks who want to just relax and somewhat unplug for a bit.
The Sunday NYT is a bit of a challenge, mind you.
Food for thought, RSS is dead because it does not provide an incentive for the author. If you do not collect a mailing list/email list you do not have a known audience. If you dont have a known audience there is no way to measure growth and monetize it. You also would struggle to monitor popular articles over time without your own web real estate and analytics. I am an RSS noob.. so maybe some of the above IS possibl…
I agree that rss as a protocol doesn’t have clear incentives but I don’t think the right people have given a serious attempt at building said incentives (via examples). One such example could be building a rss based content publisher that gives money, spotify-style, to the authors via view on their own rss clients. The publisher would have to have a good value add for a premium, too, so it’s not just an easy business…
I love and miss RSS as much as the next hacker, but it's weird to see an increasing trend of technological nostalgia starting to emerge. To be clear, I also think the web has gone wrong and miss coherent and useful web search, exploring interesting user created content (people have mentioned the return of web rings) and curating my own news feed via RSS. But it's strange to me that when I started everything was about…
I don't think it's "nostalgia" or "going back to the past". I think it's people in their thirties and older that somehow start to realize the promise of 'social media' was there all the time. This whole RSS thing... it's never pushed to it's potential, I think. Thanks to walled gardens and other kinds of closed jails. Surrounded by a lot of buzz, hype and money to be made. Besides, I could say the same thing about el…
We need one central place to find feeds, see this relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
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I think it covers 5. Could be extended a bit (especially if in the future there really exists a group with activity that can be presented as well), but it's awesome and very close! Are you the author? 2 was different. I was thinking about what happens when a user clicks on a feed - it's not very user friendly, especially now that browsers just show the XML file content. If we had a mechanism that wraps that request a…
> I was thinking about what happens when a user clicks on a feed - it's not very user friendly, especially now that browsers just show the XML file content. If we had a mechanism that wraps that request and gives the user a way to subscribe directly via one of the many available feed reader, that would help a lot. I agree. But I'm also willing to think that a simple button to copy the feed URL would suffice. Since fe…
But sure, the button to copy the feed on by default would already be a great improvement.
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That's because a lot of us like to read offline and via e-ink. It's replaced a newspaper for many folks who want to just relax and somewhat unplug for a bit.
You can get the NYT literally delivered to your door in completely offline form. I used to pick up a copy to read during lunch at work, back before smartphones. The Sunday NYT is a bit of a challenge , mind you.
I would love to be able to filter RSS feeds.
Can you tell me more? What things would you filter on?