Gripes with RSS after one week

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Post by jez » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

Gripes with RSS after one week
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Re: Gripes with RSS after one week

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Post by bhouston » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 6:20 PM UTC

Have you tried Atom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(web_standard)

Re: Gripes with RSS after one week

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Post by zagrebian » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

I use the Feedbro browser extension. It continuously fetches feeds in the background. The UI is blazingly fast (think HTML version of Gmail). It automatically marks viewed entries. It’s very configurable. It can find feeds on the current page. I love it. Much better than Feedly.

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Post by zwilliamson » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

What if Firefox picked up the proverbial RSS feed torch and took it to the next level?

Re: Gripes with RSS after one week

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Post by trickjarrett » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 6:23 PM UTC

zwilliamson wrote: post #4

What if Firefox picked up the proverbial RSS feed torch and took it to the next level?

I wrote about this exact thing. If they gave me a Google Reader-esque product as part of their subscription service for VPN etc., it would get me to subscribe.

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Post by rawling » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 6:23 PM UTC

> A page can declare an RSS feed using a tag in the something like this:

> ...

> But browsers won’t surface that to you.

Do they not? I thought FF put an icon in the address bar.

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Post by smlavine » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 6:23 PM UTC

I was going to say that Firefox does show when pages have an RSS feed present, but then I found out it's actually a long-forgotten extension I have installed: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/?ut...

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Post by justinator » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 6:26 PM UTC

zwilliamson wrote: post #4

What if Firefox picked up the proverbial RSS feed torch and took it to the next level?

Well four years ago, they removed support for RSS, so less next level, and more um... a similar level than before.

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Post by musictubes » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 6:27 PM UTC

I use Newsblur as my aggregator and it solves a few of the gripes. Adding feeds is as simple as pasting the url into the add field. Their web app is pretty good IMO as well as their native iOS app. I prefer using Unread on my iPhone to read my feed and am experimenting with NNW on the Mac but will probably keep using the web app.

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Post by zwilliamson » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 6:28 PM UTC

trickjarrett wrote: post #5

zwilliamson wrote: post #4

What if Firefox picked up the proverbial RSS feed torch and took it to the next level?

I wrote about this exact thing. If they gave me a Google Reader-esque product as part of their subscription service for VPN etc., it would get me to subscribe.

I agree. Their email client, Thunderbird, is an amazing open source product. They definitely have the background on how to build a top notch standalone client.