RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps

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Post by conoro » Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 3:40 PM UTC

RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps
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Post by dewey » Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 4:18 PM UTC

> You can sign up for emails that go into the black hole of your inbox

You could also just get the unique email address of a channel and let the email notifications go there, same result: https://slack.com/help/articles/206819278-Send-emails-to-Sla...

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Post by amerine » Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 4:34 PM UTC

All I see is people claiming RSS is dead, but I never stopped. Moving between various readers and landed on Feedly for iOS a few years ago. Love it.

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 » Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 4:37 PM UTC

amerine wrote: post #3

All I see is people claiming RSS is dead, but I never stopped. Moving between various readers and landed on Feedly for iOS a few years ago. Love it.

Same. It was a major loss when Google killed Reader, but I just found another app and kept on RSSing. NewsBlurr is my current choice (windows).

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Post by tootie » Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 4:40 PM UTC

amerine wrote: post #3

All I see is people claiming RSS is dead, but I never stopped. Moving between various readers and landed on Feedly for iOS a few years ago. Love it.

RSS is still the default distribution system for podcasts. It's probably the thin thread that is keeping Spotify from building a walled garden for audio.

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Post by jhot » Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 4:42 PM UTC

amerine wrote: post #3

All I see is people claiming RSS is dead, but I never stopped. Moving between various readers and landed on Feedly for iOS a few years ago. Love it.

Same. After Google Reader I went with Feedly for a while, then self-hosted TTRSS, and currently self-hosted Miniflux. Miniflutt is my preferred Android client and ReadKit on Mac. The Miniflux web app is nice and simple but I prefer clients that mark as read on scroll.

I occasionally venture onto Reddit or HN to see if I've missed anything big but rarely do.

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Post by marcrosoft » Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 4:43 PM UTC

tootie wrote: post #5

amerine wrote: post #3

All I see is people claiming RSS is dead, but I never stopped. Moving between various readers and landed on Feedly for iOS a few years ago. Love it.

RSS is still the default distribution system for podcasts. It's probably the thin thread that is keeping Spotify from building a walled garden for audio.

I boycott all podcasts that are exclusive to Spotify because I want to do my part in at least slowing down the eventual podcast walled garden future.

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Post by rambambram » Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 4:44 PM UTC

> RSS and advertising never really made good bedfellows.

Isn't Feedburner part of Google nowadays? I remember reading somewhere that they inject ads in the feeds.

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Post by pavel_lishin » Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 4:50 PM UTC

amerine wrote: post #3

All I see is people claiming RSS is dead, but I never stopped. Moving between various readers and landed on Feedly for iOS a few years ago. Love it.

It's not dead, but many things I wish supported RSS don't.

Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. These would be incredibly useful things to have native RSS feeds for, but instead I have to dig around and either use some tool someone built for the purpose - a tool at the mercy of the walled garden whose wall they're peeking over - or build my own nightmare factory.

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Post by baskethead » Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 4:54 PM UTC

I've been using Blogtrottr to email me my RSS feeds for whatever I'm following. It's run without any hiccups in I think over 10 years. I have tons of feeds just emailing me every day and I skim through them and read whatever I find interesting. It's really awesome, much better for me than anything else.