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Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important

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Post by PaulKeeble »

Daunk wrote: post #5

I'd love to use RSS for everything, but the problem has always been that most RSS readers are really really bad. I want one where I can add all RSS feeds I care about, then easily filter through the posts by assigning tags I care about, get notifications about certain tags, and easily navigate huge lists. I basically want to filter based on content, tags and other things, then set what kind of notification I'll get b…

I use FreshRSS which is hosted on my home server. What it does is allow you to categorise the feeds and you can also do some further things like hiding them from the main feed if you choose to. Then beyond that it pulls article tags from the original sites which you can search or predefine a filter for and you can also label individual articles you find. What it can't do unfortunately is allow multiple tags for a site to be applied, so its not possible to classify content from a source multiple ways and have it surfaced in multiple places while only having it shown once and read once. You can put a site in multiple categories but reading it in one place wont read it in the other.

It is one of the better systems I have used, its by no means perfect but its fairly quick and easy to use with some decent shortcuts for working through the sites and I manage hundreds with it and it happily works across every platform since its a website.

Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important

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Post by albertsun »

Daunk wrote: post #5

I'd love to use RSS for everything, but the problem has always been that most RSS readers are really really bad. I want one where I can add all RSS feeds I care about, then easily filter through the posts by assigning tags I care about, get notifications about certain tags, and easily navigate huge lists. I basically want to filter based on content, tags and other things, then set what kind of notification I'll get b…

Try https://www.newsblur.com/ it does a lot of what you're asking for and works well on web and mobile app.

Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important

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Post by Naac »

stevekemp wrote: post #7
Daunk wrote: post #5

I'd love to use RSS for everything, but the problem has always been that most RSS readers are really really bad. I want one where I can add all RSS feeds I care about, then easily filter through the posts by assigning tags I care about, get notifications about certain tags, and easily navigate huge lists. I basically want to filter based on content, tags and other things, then set what kind of notification I'll get b…

I wrote a simple "RSS to Email" utility, which I use for reading feeds. I can filter either in my mail-client, or in the utility itself, to include/exclude entries from feeds based upon regular expressions, and similar things. It is pretty flexible - at least for the case when the feed itself contains the complete text of an entry. Often you'll find feeds contain only the "summary" of a blog-post, or article. Those a…

There is also the much more complete rss2email tool ( originally started by Aaron Swartz )

https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email

Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important

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Post by Naac »

Daunk wrote: post #5

I'd love to use RSS for everything, but the problem has always been that most RSS readers are really really bad. I want one where I can add all RSS feeds I care about, then easily filter through the posts by assigning tags I care about, get notifications about certain tags, and easily navigate huge lists. I basically want to filter based on content, tags and other things, then set what kind of notification I'll get b…

https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email

Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important

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Post by bandie91 »

karencarits wrote: post #10
kevincox wrote: post #4

I mostly agree. But really RSS and email have basically the same functionality. The have date, time, content. The main difference is that RSS has better markup for URL "attachments" as well as an alternate URL. The "what if the email server is overloaded" can be equivalently replaces with "What if the RSS feed is down". Spam is an issue with email, the nice thing about RSS is that you know you want the feed, so spam…

I've always wondered why emails aren't used as back-bone for more services. In many aspects, facebook is just a mailing list with ads and a fancy front-end. And in some ways, visiting a web page is just emailing the server and receiving the web page in response. And in some ways, the latter would be perfect to keep an archive of important stuff

at least Delta Chat[1] builds Instant Messaging on the email infrastructure.

[1] https://delta.chat

Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important

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Post by u2077 »

Daunk wrote: post #5

I'd love to use RSS for everything, but the problem has always been that most RSS readers are really really bad. I want one where I can add all RSS feeds I care about, then easily filter through the posts by assigning tags I care about, get notifications about certain tags, and easily navigate huge lists. I basically want to filter based on content, tags and other things, then set what kind of notification I'll get b…

So you want to create regex based filters that:

  - Sort articles into lists

  - Tag articles by category

  - Dim articles that may be uninteresting

  - Highlight articles you are most likely to enjoy

  - Also have various notification preferences

Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important

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Post by d4a »

PaulKeeble wrote: post #21
Daunk wrote: post #5

I'd love to use RSS for everything, but the problem has always been that most RSS readers are really really bad. I want one where I can add all RSS feeds I care about, then easily filter through the posts by assigning tags I care about, get notifications about certain tags, and easily navigate huge lists. I basically want to filter based on content, tags and other things, then set what kind of notification I'll get b…

I use FreshRSS which is hosted on my home server. What it does is allow you to categorise the feeds and you can also do some further things like hiding them from the main feed if you choose to. Then beyond that it pulls article tags from the original sites which you can search or predefine a filter for and you can also label individual articles you find. What it can't do unfortunately is allow multiple tags for a sit…

+1 for FreshRSS. Use that with NetNewsWire[0] as a client and RSS looks very nice.

[0] https://netnewswire.com

Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important

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Post by upofadown »

My city does email for alerts and RSS for news releases.

>But it still locks the information up inside my email inbox, and subjects it to the fragility of email delivery these days; will the town’s email servers be allowed to deliver the message?

I think in practice that fragility is mostly Gmail and some of the other big free email providers. Email providers that actually care will normally make it so you can at least get your email reliably.

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