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Re: Gripes with RSS after one week

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Post by rpdillon »

europeanguy wrote: post #40
masenf wrote: post #29

As a recent returnee to the world of RSS feeds, I’ve been enjoying the miniflux client [1] self hosted with docker-compose. Fast, cross-platform, not fancy. [1] https://miniflux.app/

Why do you need to host something in order to consume RSS?

You don't need to. But if you want to sync read state and favorites across devices, it's a good way. I self-host FreshRSS for this, works wonderfully.

Re: Gripes with RSS after one week

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Post by sureglymop »

The client I use is Thunderbird and it works well. It's simple and just the same as going through my email. I can create saved searches and even group emails and RSS feeds (e.g. lwn feed and a mailing list) into the same inbox.

Re: Gripes with RSS after one week

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Post by rzzzt »

trog wrote: post #47
ihuman wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox used to have that functionality built in, but they removed it in late 2018

One of Firefox's most annoying interface changes,to me at least. I used this thing all the time. Maybe there was more to it (I'm sure I could dig up the Bugzilla) but I used this feature all the time & can't imagine it was a huge maintenance burden.

There was also an option to add an RSS feed as a live-updating bookmarks folder, but clicking on the icon just rendered the XML in a human-readable form, IIRC?

Re: Gripes with RSS after one week

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Post by russellbeattie »

greggyb wrote: post #22

I like Inoreader[0]. The web app is plenty snappy for me, and supports basic vim nav keys, which is a lovely plus. The free plan's 150 feeds are sufficient for my use case. The mobile app also performs well. Mostly it just gets out of my way, which is all I really want. [0] https://www.inoreader.com

100% this. Inoreader is the aggregator I wanted to make for myself, but never did. It's got all the features I ever wanted. Been a paying customer for years now. They can be a bit slow on fixing bugs or cleaning things up (duplicates in search results, for example), but I love that it lets you enter your own CSS fixes. In general, it's a great example of a boutique web service that we all should admire and support.

Re: Gripes with RSS after one week

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Post by ianzakalwe »

I remember the moment when I added huggingface blog feed to my reader and realized that this feed has no content in it and links are specified with guid tag. Outside of tech blogs its very common nowadays to stumble upon malformed atom/rss feeds in the wild, some feel unmaintained or abandoned.

Re: Gripes with RSS after one week

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Post by schemescape »

woodruffw wrote: post #33

Nice writeup. I share a lot of these gripes, as someone who's also on the publishing side: it continues to surprise me how many people actually do read my blog via RSS (based on statistics passed back through user agents), given how poor the discovery and client experience is.

How are you tracking RSS reads? HTTP logs?
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