Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by jfb » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

yabatopia wrote: post #44

Absolutely. I have a Feedly Pro lifetime subscription and I use it several times a day. RSS is great, too bad major social networks refuse to use it.

I'm not sure I would want Twitter/FB/G+/et al updates via my RSS reader, and I certainly wouldn't want to have to sort through all the stuff on the social networks to get good longform content (or pictures of baby animals). Different platforms have different strengths, and I'd hate to see the utility of one diluted to chase another.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by delecti » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 5:37 PM UTC

marbletiles wrote: post #29

I use Bazqux, which is absolutely superb: * Rock-solid, I haven't seen an outage * Impressively fast (Reeder updates from it much faster than it ever did with Google Reader: I can get all my feeds in one Tube stop's worth of wifi) * Has good features like filtering (goodbye "latest podcast" spam) and highlighting (only see certain posts from high-volume feeds * Great keyboard UI on the web. Can't recommend it enough.…

I tried Bazqux (before settling on Digg), but right near the end of my free trial they removed the one feature I give a damn about.

I've never cared for reading entries in the reader, I just want it to show me a list of links that I can easily mark as read and click through to the original article.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by jkmcf » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 5:38 PM UTC

I'm really liking Feedly, and their iOS apps are really nice. I wish they had a cheaper paid version. I don't really need their pro features, but a $10-20/year subscription would be enticing instead of just coasting for free.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by cel » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 5:38 PM UTC

Yes, rss2imap.

https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by bradfa » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 5:39 PM UTC

Yes. I use Reeder (the old one which is no longer available on the App Store) on iOS with local RSS (it fetches ever time I launch it).

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by projectdelphai » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

Yeah, Tiny Tiny RSS self-hosted on Heroku.

Here's the link to how I did it: https://projectdelphai.github.io/blog/2013/03/15/replacing-g...

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by gighi » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 5:44 PM UTC

I use feedly and this self-hosted application to read all sections of Hacker News: http://gianlucaborello.github.io/rssify/

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by talleyrand » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 5:45 PM UTC

Yes. Feedly. Constantly...

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by rcjordan » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 5:47 PM UTC

I ended up writing my own using SimplePie. Here's a multifeed demo: http://simplepie.org/wiki/tutorial/how_to_replicate_popurls

With the demise of many of the Craigslist national search apps, I ended up taking SimplePie into that realm and produced a 418-CLfeed search engine for personal use as a collector/hobbyist ...OK, hoarder. Works!

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?

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Post by chrawprime » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 5:51 PM UTC

Feedbin + Press