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An example of why RSS is useful and important
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Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important
#42This is slightly unrelated/related to the author's problem, but I've been working on creating something that can continually scrape websites for updates for me - and tell me when something has changed. Still a WIP, but if anyone's interested: https://fetcher.page
Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important
#43This is slightly unrelated/related to the author's problem, but I've been working on creating something that can continually scrape websites for updates for me - and tell me when something has changed. Still a WIP, but if anyone's interested: https://fetcher.page
Looks nice! You might be interested in related tools to build off of, like rss-bridge: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/
Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important
#44This is slightly unrelated/related to the author's problem, but I've been working on creating something that can continually scrape websites for updates for me - and tell me when something has changed. Still a WIP, but if anyone's interested: https://fetcher.page
Cool, this looks a bit like: https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io
Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important
#45> So for fun, I wanted to see how many steps it would take to get the information contained in those alerts into a usable RSS feed. The author did it for fun, but if you ever find yourself in this situation and need a solution fast, consider Kill The Newsletter[1]. Free, easy to set up, no accounts needed, open source[2]. [1]: https://kill-the-newsletter.com [2]: https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter
> Free, easy to set up, no accounts needed, open source
> An error occurred during a connection to kill-the-newsletter.com.
I guess braving the HN flood takes some nontrivial resources. And there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important
#46> So for fun, I wanted to see how many steps it would take to get the information contained in those alerts into a usable RSS feed. The author did it for fun, but if you ever find yourself in this situation and need a solution fast, consider Kill The Newsletter[1]. Free, easy to set up, no accounts needed, open source[2]. [1]: https://kill-the-newsletter.com [2]: https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter
Kill the Newsletter is great. I'm subscribed to a number of Patreons and last week I got fed up with the lack of RSS feed for non-audio posts, and got the idea to do something sort of like Chris Hardie and bash together a web server which would receive emails and post them to an RSS feed.
Very glad I looked around and found Kill the Newsletter before I wasted my weekend!
Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think it gets quite to the level of customization you want, but I find Feedly to be very good and is definitely cross-platform. Give it a try if you haven't. The for-pay Pro model has some extra features, and I have had good luck contacting their support.
Does one of you want to give a try to lenns.io? That’s a new type of RSS reader I’m working on. It has import/export so you can try and leave easily. I’m planning for the aforementioned customizations but they are still a few months away.
Count me in.
I am using Inoreader at present, and it will be good to have a different "competitor".
Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important
#48I'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…
Inoreader. Does everything and more.
Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important
#49Does anyone want to try and "fix" RSS? I'd be keen to jump on a chat/email thread about it.
I don't think RSS is a bad thing, I think it's just not sexy anymore and the reading experience sucks - it died for me when I stopped using Opera but I do think there's an app/extension plugin play to bring it back. Most newsletters, alerts would be better as content delivered through a push/RSS model.
We don't get news delivered by post, email is the wrong medium for broadcast.
Re: An example of why RSS is useful and important
#50> So for fun, I wanted to see how many steps it would take to get the information contained in those alerts into a usable RSS feed. The author did it for fun, but if you ever find yourself in this situation and need a solution fast, consider Kill The Newsletter[1]. Free, easy to set up, no accounts needed, open source[2]. [1]: https://kill-the-newsletter.com [2]: https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter
I’d actually like to have the reverse, an RSS-to-email service.