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Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by muttled »

lddemi wrote: post #16
prepend wrote: post #13

For me it’s: -HN many times a day (probably too much to be healthy as it’s my default “I’ve got 60 seconds to spare”) -Reddit used to be many times a day but since they turned off compact mode on mobile it’s maybe once a day using old.Reddit.com on my phone and really not like how I have to zoom to read stuff -gmail as workflow for personal chores and work GitHub/GitLab, maybe 5 times a day -discord once or twice a d…

Definitely recommend using Apollo with a little tuning for Reddit on mobile. Clean and clear of all their growth experiments

Just be careful about paying for the (one time fee) Pro Apollo at this point. Reddit just changed their API terms and that app may stop working soon-ish without a monthly subscription.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by smotched »

ttul wrote: post #19
prepend wrote: post #13

For me it’s: -HN many times a day (probably too much to be healthy as it’s my default “I’ve got 60 seconds to spare”) -Reddit used to be many times a day but since they turned off compact mode on mobile it’s maybe once a day using old.Reddit.com on my phone and really not like how I have to zoom to read stuff -gmail as workflow for personal chores and work GitHub/GitLab, maybe 5 times a day -discord once or twice a d…

I appreciate that HN has extremely high quality moderation. There is virtually no garbage content. I don’t know how this magic is achieved, but I am grateful.

there is, if you're in the new section like some of us

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by prepend »

ttul wrote: post #19
prepend wrote: post #13

For me it’s: -HN many times a day (probably too much to be healthy as it’s my default “I’ve got 60 seconds to spare”) -Reddit used to be many times a day but since they turned off compact mode on mobile it’s maybe once a day using old.Reddit.com on my phone and really not like how I have to zoom to read stuff -gmail as workflow for personal chores and work GitHub/GitLab, maybe 5 times a day -discord once or twice a d…

I appreciate that HN has extremely high quality moderation. There is virtually no garbage content. I don’t know how this magic is achieved, but I am grateful.

I appreciate this too. Comically, I used it for many years before finally signing up so I could get voting and saving and whatnot.

I think it’s become more precious to me as one of the few remnants of what really excited me about the internet many years ago and is my last active community as all the others have fallen away - slashdot, kuro5hin, plastic, netslaves, fuckedcompany, digg, fark, Reddit and probably a few others I forget.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by prepend »

lddemi wrote: post #16
prepend wrote: post #13

For me it’s: -HN many times a day (probably too much to be healthy as it’s my default “I’ve got 60 seconds to spare”) -Reddit used to be many times a day but since they turned off compact mode on mobile it’s maybe once a day using old.Reddit.com on my phone and really not like how I have to zoom to read stuff -gmail as workflow for personal chores and work GitHub/GitLab, maybe 5 times a day -discord once or twice a d…

Definitely recommend using Apollo with a little tuning for Reddit on mobile. Clean and clear of all their growth experiments

Thanks. I tried it, but really don’t want a lot of apps as my phone doesn’t have much storage. And I like having a shared bookmark list for web sites. I appreciate simplicity and one less app means one less update schedule, one less UI, etc etc.

Reddit is exactly why the web was invented so using an app just makes me feel a little sad when one of the big benefits of html was that you wouldn’t need custom clients for everything.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by dgeiser13 »

In my personal life...

I look at Inoreader to catch up on my RSS feeds during the week and I will star items I'd like to read more about later. If I'm lucky I get to look at the starred items once a week. Almost everything I'm interested in has an RSS feed. Hackernews goes into the feed reader as well.

I keep my personal email open and glance at it a few times a day to make sure there's nothing super important. I also clean up my email about once a week.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by urban_alien »

dgeiser13 wrote: post #58

In my personal life... I look at Inoreader to catch up on my RSS feeds during the week and I will star items I'd like to read more about later. If I'm lucky I get to look at the starred items once a week. Almost everything I'm interested in has an RSS feed. Hackernews goes into the feed reader as well. I keep my personal email open and glance at it a few times a day to make sure there's nothing super important. I als…

How do you manage Hacker News on your Inoreader feed?

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by dgeiser13 »

urban_alien wrote: post #59
dgeiser13 wrote: post #58

In my personal life... I look at Inoreader to catch up on my RSS feeds during the week and I will star items I'd like to read more about later. If I'm lucky I get to look at the starred items once a week. Almost everything I'm interested in has an RSS feed. Hackernews goes into the feed reader as well. I keep my personal email open and glance at it a few times a day to make sure there's nothing super important. I als…

How do you manage Hacker News on your Inoreader feed?

https://hnrss.org/frontpage

This https://hnrss.github.io/ has more options if you don't just want front page stuff.

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