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RSS is still pretty great
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Re: RSS is still pretty great
#82> Finally, and one of the biggest issues with RSS, is that it's not very intuitive to non-tech savvy individuals. Back when Google reader was a thing this wasn't true. Your browser auto-themed and provided subscribing options for your configured reader. It's a true shame that Firefox gave up supporting RSS out of the box to match Chrome's stance on the subject
That's my feeling as well... When browsers had good RSS plugin integration it was pretty great. Really destroyed my reading habits when they killed reader and removed browser integration.
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> But Twitter doesn't address many of the downsides of social media that were listed, or many of the upsides of RSS that were listed. Seriously. You even have to log in just to view or search stuff.
Logging in makes it easy to sync your feed between devices. Making account is quick and easy.
But Twitter is just one website. Must we have an account at _every_ website?
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#84For anyone not using rss and wondering whether to get into it and how, this is what worked for me over the past year. I used to have 4-6 sites I would check regularly. A couple occasionally had a news update article I liked reading. A couple were “firehose” sites for a hobby which produced 4-20 articles per day. Hard to keep up with on web without feeling overwhelmed. I got NetNewsWire which has a good sync system ac…
recently started using the app and i share a lot of same impressions.
i went ahead and checked their github after reading about sync feature here but sadly they currently only support macOS and iOS.
personally i am yet to find an app with sync features without requiring self-hosting or freeware account creation. regardless as long as you read on one device it is still possible to have a decent experience.
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Just a heads up that YouTube channels do generally have RSS feeds; e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=NFL or https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC8WAaaW... But RSS Bridge does look very neat!
Oh good, they're back! There was concern a little while ago that Google had killed off the YouTube RSS feeds https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179446 Click saver: 2 weeks ago YouTube channel RSS feeds were returning a 404 response (It looks like they actually came back while that thread was still active)
It's a fair point - Google cannot be relied upon to continue providing this kind of open access indefinitely. I noticed my RSS reader hitting those 404s at the time, and I promptly started looking into the Piped / Invidious infrastructure, thinking Google is pulling up the drawbridge (a la Reddit, Twitter, etc). Then YT RSS came back and I stopped, but I really should switch my feeds away from Google anyway.
Re: RSS is still pretty great
#86> Finally, and one of the biggest issues with RSS, is that it's not very intuitive to non-tech savvy individuals. Back when Google reader was a thing this wasn't true. Your browser auto-themed and provided subscribing options for your configured reader. It's a true shame that Firefox gave up supporting RSS out of the box to match Chrome's stance on the subject
Do you remember FeedBurner? It allowed you to subscribe to RSS feed using many popular services - screenshot: https://www.theedublogger.com/files/2010/01/feedburner49.jpg.
There are still many RSS extensions for all web browsers, so RSS is not dead.
Re: RSS is still pretty great
#87The main problem with RSS is there might be a large quantity of (useless) traffic produced by subscribers to a personal website which is update with a low frequency. There were some services to fix this problem, but most of them have all been (deliberately) closed now.
> there might be a large quantity of (useless) traffic RSS has update hints in the form of skipHours, skipDays and TTL to let clients know if you expect to be publishing regularly or not. Also most RSS feeds are just links with a tiny amount of text. A large youtube channel produces a feed file in the 30KB range for example. Unlikely you'll ever exhaust your transfer quota at any provider with that size of data. Quit…
Some RSS clients just ignore the hints.