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Re: A directory of people who love RSS

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Post by panzi » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 1:38 PM UTC

sjs382 wrote: post #59

chrismorgan wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason I think it matters is that, because people keep on using the name of the wrong format, people keep on using that wrong format when they want to implement feeds. Where if they had known about Atom, or that podcast feeds are the only reason not to use Atom, they would gladly have used Atom.

Flashback to a memorable bug report complaining that "the JPEGs I'm uploading don't work" but upon further investigation, they were trying to upload HEIC photos. The field was explicit about the formats supported, but to this user, "JPEGs" just meant "images".

Yeah, or people/websites calling short looping MPEG4 videos (even with audio) GIFs.

Re: A directory of people who love RSS

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Post by davewiner » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 9:17 PM UTC

jjordan wrote: post #36

Wow, what timing. Not to shill, but I'm also nearly done building a directory of RSS feeds. It stemmed from a frustration of outdated and broken RSS feed collections, and the long slow death of the orange RSS subscribe button across the web. I'm not officially launched yet but I would love some feedback and maybe some of the RSS feeds that land in your directory can be added to mine. https://rssvault.org Password is…

This is great. RSS is springing back to life. All it need was for people to reject the hype that came largely from big companies that wanted to and did takeover,

Re: A directory of people who love RSS

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Post by davewiner » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 9:19 PM UTC

culi wrote: post #77

edhelas wrote: post #3

If you love RSS, embrace Atom 1.0 :) Its the final modern form of RSS.

Atom was killed by podcasts. Tbh RSS 2.0 is good enough

I was expecting that they would support podcasts almost immediately and couldn’t believe that they never did. It was so easy, nothing to it.

Re: A directory of people who love RSS

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Post by jjordan » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 4:29 AM UTC

davewiner wrote: post #92

jjordan wrote: post #36

Wow, what timing. Not to shill, but I'm also nearly done building a directory of RSS feeds. It stemmed from a frustration of outdated and broken RSS feed collections, and the long slow death of the orange RSS subscribe button across the web. I'm not officially launched yet but I would love some feedback and maybe some of the RSS feeds that land in your directory can be added to mine. https://rssvault.org Password is…

This is great. RSS is springing back to life. All it need was for people to reject the hype that came largely from big companies that wanted to and did takeover,

Thanks Dave! Actually I was meaning to reach out, as parsing your site's RSS brought broader support for the format to the entire site. Those title-less blog posts were something else :D I didn't know much about the history of RSS going into this, so I might be your newest fan. Thanks for all of your contributions to the free and open web.

Re: A directory of people who love RSS

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Post by bullcitydev » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 12:54 PM UTC

"RSS just needed people to reject the big-company hype" is why Im building my own reader. RSS was never the problem; it's the stuff around it: feeds truncated to a teaser, blogs dying and taking their archives with them, cloud readers logging everything you open.

I'm building Cove (https://covereader.app), a native Mac app that works as a permanent local archive. Excerpt-only feeds get the full article fetched and extracted on-device in an offline WebView, stored LZFSE-compressed. It can also read articles aloud with streaming TTS that runs entirely locally, so nothing that you read leaves the machine. No account, no servers.

Caveats: Mac-only, no sync yet, will be one-time purchase at 1.0 (beta is free now).

Re: A directory of people who love RSS

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Post by Godsend69 » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 1:11 PM UTC

bullcitydev wrote: post #95

"RSS just needed people to reject the big-company hype" is why Im building my own reader. RSS was never the problem; it's the stuff around it: feeds truncated to a teaser, blogs dying and taking their archives with them, cloud readers logging everything you open. I'm building Cove ( https://covereader.app ), a native Mac app that works as a permanent local archive. Excerpt-only feeds get the full article fetched and…

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