For me RSS died with the death of Google Reader
People keep saying that and I never quite get it. What was so unique about Google Reader? When it should down I imported my subscriptions into another reader and used that ever since, without problems.
Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
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Re: Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
#12For me RSS died with the death of Google Reader
I didn’t even know about RSS at the time. Just used facebook for everything.
Re: Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
#13For me RSS died with the death of Google Reader
You should try Feedly. It’s like that but without the baggage of being owned by a company that suffers from ADHD.
Re: Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
#14For me RSS died with the death of Google Reader
People keep saying that and I never quite get it. What was so unique about Google Reader? When it should down I imported my subscriptions into another reader and used that ever since, without problems.
It wasn't in anyway special or unique. Though, it was a good app and it took competitors several months to years to reach a similar level. But Google Reader dominated the market back then, and them closing it was a kind of signal. It was around that time that other rss-related services went into decline, while competing solutions like social networks and reddit were on their hype-train to popularity.
So it's kinda natural that people saw the shutdown of Google Reader as a death-flag for Newsfeeds as a whole. And they are not so wrong on this. The decline continued since then and so far there is nothing in sight to reverse it and start a new hype.
Re: Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
#15For me RSS died with the death of Google Reader
But RSS is everywhere. I use it for so many blogs and sites, as do many others. And for sites that don't have RSS there are services to turn them into RSS feeds. You can turn newsletters into RSS feeds. You can have RSS in your email client. RSS is thriving.
Is there a reliable way to create RSS feeds for sites that don't have them? That would be really great...
Re: Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
#16Wow this article has changed my life!
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#17Been using and paying for newsblur for some years now. Absolutely love it
Anything particular about it that you like. What makes it worth paying for? Just curious.
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#18Wow this article has changed my life!
Ahaha I'm glad you found it useful.
Re: Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
#19I wrote yet another "rss to email" tools, which is what I use for consuming feeds: https://github.com/skx/rss2email/ Getting feeds into email means I have the local content available for searching, and am not tied to desktop/mobile, or a particular machine. (Rewritten in go, primarily because the standard r2e was the last daemon/program on my host that required python. So switching let me drop a whole bunch of depend…
> I have the local content available for searching
That's a good point. Hadn't considered that. Definitely have had moments where I couldn't find an article later with Google.
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#20https://feedreader.com has been working out really well for me for long period of time. It is not as popular as others, and that's a good thing.