I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too

Post by asjo » Sun, Jan 19, 2025, 10:04 AM UTC

fire_lake wrote: post #180

asjo wrote: post #85

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rachelbythebay has a service and a series of blog posts about the technical side of this, starting at https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/ TL;DR: readers should not poll more often than once and hour, use ETag and If-Modified-Since to determine whether to download the full feed again. Which items you have seen previously is something the feed reader keeps track of.

> Which items you have seen previously is something the feed reader keeps track of. Is there a particular field that can be used as an identifier?

Post by palata » Sun, Jan 19, 2025, 3:50 PM UTC

geor9e wrote: post #190

palata wrote: post #10

I have been doing that for plaintext emails. Whenever I receive an HTML-only email (that my email reader cannot open), I send a kind email to the company, asking if they could consider adding a plaintext version next to it. I clearly explain that they can keep the HTML version as a default, and that some people need plaintext for accessibility and security reasons. I often receive answers, that surprised me! People s…

I don't mean to sound super callous - but what ? I have so many questions, as someone who uses screen readers a lot. How are you browsing HN - it's not like websites maintain a separate .txt file for the blind. When you click "Read aloud" in a browser (or whatever the inbuilt screenreader calls it), thanks to the structure of the html DOM it can find the main txt. Since your email client can't open most emails, you s…

Post by palata » Sun, Jan 19, 2025, 6:02 PM UTC

rednafi wrote: post #45

palata wrote: post #10

I have been doing that for plaintext emails. Whenever I receive an HTML-only email (that my email reader cannot open), I send a kind email to the company, asking if they could consider adding a plaintext version next to it. I clearly explain that they can keep the HTML version as a default, and that some people need plaintext for accessibility and security reasons. I often receive answers, that surprised me! People s…

Interesting. I didn’t even know you could do it. I wonder how to do that in a mainstream email client like Gmail on the web.

Post by crtasm » Sun, Jan 19, 2025, 9:03 PM UTC

User123698745 wrote: post #209

crtasm wrote: post #177

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Is there a way to get a feed for Videos only? This feed includes Shorts.

Yes, by using Youtube's special playlist id prefixes and the "playlist_id" query parameter instead "channel_id". Example: For channel id "UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw" replace the first two letters "UC" (channel ids always start with "UC") with "UULF". The feed url then looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULFXuq... It will only contain Videos, no Shorts, but also no Live Streams (in cas…

Post by dqv » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 5:37 AM UTC

rmnclmnt wrote: post #181

dqv wrote: post #81

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Pocket Casts usually lists the RSS link when you share a podcast from the app. https://pca.st/podcast/170a7610-948e-0135-9d21-5bb073f92b78 Under "more ways to listen" it has RSS as an option.

Thanks!