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Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by moontear »

askl wrote: post #27

I was wondering why Tiny Tiny RSS was missing as that's what I've been using for the last 10+ years. At the bottom of the article there's the explanation: > On October 3rd the maintainer announced that he's going to stop working on it, and will remove all infrastructure on November 1st. Forks of the project with other maintainers may pop up, but at the moment it's too soon to tell what the future of Tiny Tiny RSS wil…

The person who forked it (https://github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss) was very active on the original Tiny Tiny RSS development side as well as on the forums. I have a good feeling that this fork will work out just fine.

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by pavo-etc »

asdff wrote: post #69
HanClinto wrote: post #28

I still miss Google Reader. I loved the social aspects, where I could repost my favorite articles (with comments about them), and friends could easily subscribe to my feed and comment on my shares. It was a really great social network for sharing blog posts and articles. I credit the demise of Google Reader with a lot of the downfall of the Old Web. Since then, social sharing platforms are motivated to keep you on th…

I suppose you could make your own "meta" rss feed today, where you repost interesting articles to this feed, wrapped in your comments.

Mastodon with build in RSS feeds, repost an article from an RSS feed and your repost is really just new mastodon post

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by bityard »

grigio wrote: post #58

yarr is a fantastic selfhosted reader

This is what I'm using right now. I like that it has a built-in "reader mode" where it fetches the target article from the website and removes all the crud.

But I do have a wishlist of creature-comfort items that would probably never make it in:

* I go days/weeks without reading anything and trying to find out where I left off is a big pain. There doesn't seem to be a way to sort chonologicaly (only reverse).

* The only difference between read/unread items is a tiny gray dot in front of the article title. (I'd rather have the unread items stand out more from the read ones, with a different background, bold text, etc.)

* It would be nice to have a per-feed setting of whether to show the article as it appears in the RSS feed, or go fetch it from the web in reader mode.

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by jasonthorsness »

righthand wrote: post #73
jasonthorsness wrote: post #47

I recently enabled RSS for my own blog¹ and found it very frustrating getting the images/thumbs to display properly. The reason it was frustrating is the aggressive caching by the RSS readers. I had to debug it on a bunch of different readers, then once it was finally working change the URL of my feed to force them all to refresh. The RSS feeds are surprisingly non-standardized for the media content extensions, even…

RSS specifically or does the Atom standard also fail?

Didn’t try Atom; just generated RSS based on the spec and examples that worked in the readers I tried

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by BriggyDwiggs42 »

criddell wrote: post #79
HanClinto wrote: post #28

I still miss Google Reader. I loved the social aspects, where I could repost my favorite articles (with comments about them), and friends could easily subscribe to my feed and comment on my shares. It was a really great social network for sharing blog posts and articles. I credit the demise of Google Reader with a lot of the downfall of the Old Web. Since then, social sharing platforms are motivated to keep you on th…

> Facebook deprioritizes (shadowbans?) posts that link off of their platform That tells you that's not what it's for. It would be like posting your resume on FB and LinkedIn and then pointing out that FB led to fewer job offers than LinkedIn. Different platforms, different purposes. Have you tried Feedly or Inoreader or Flipboard or The Old Reader or any other RSS services that popped up after Google Reader was kille…

>That tells you that's not what it's for. It would be like posting your resume on FB and LinkedIn and then pointing out that FB led to fewer job offers than LinkedIn. Different platforms, different purposes.

Only insofar as the purpose of the platform is to generate ad revenue. The contents of the posts were semantically identical and they were made to the same platform; your example involves the same post to two different platforms.

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by CGamesPlay »

PaulHoule wrote: post #92

I’m disappointed in the article but watching RSS for 25 years (declared dead for most of them) have gotten me used to disappointment. It just seems like every discussion about RSS starts as if it was some brand new thing and not if we didn’t have 25 years of experience with it. The article makes a matrix out of the least important attributes of the product (free vs hosted) and has nothing at all to say about: (1) use…

> [1] … if your cache mechanisms will protect you from polling some people’s RSS feeds too fast. Maybe you’re better off if they block you.

They do, just use `--etag-save` and `--etag-compare` and curl does proper caching, since 2020: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/12/06/curl-speaks-etag/

I have dabbled with replacing my RSS reader with something like this, but haven't done it, yet.

Re: The RSS feed reader landscape

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Post by ajkjk »

Feedly's bullshit about AI and enterprise "insights" is incredibly irritating. Like, I read articles about cooking and math. Why would I want AI-powered security insights? Why would anyone want them, for that matter? It seems incredibly... clueless.
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