The article also mentions atom feeds. I've seen plenty of RSS feeds but I have never encountered an atom feed. Are atom feeds still relevant?
Google (Blogger, etc) pushes Atom feeds. Weather blogger is still relevant is up to perspective.
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#12The article also mentions atom feeds. I've seen plenty of RSS feeds but I have never encountered an atom feed. Are atom feeds still relevant?
Atom and RSS are functionally equivalent despite their technical differences. Effectively no one has ever implemented Atom push capabilities so Atom is primarily only ever used for syndication. The term "RSS" is just a generic term for "XML syndication feed".
Atom push is actually implemented. SWORDv2 (but not v3) is based on Atom Push, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWORD_(protocol) lists a few implementations.
My employer maintains a SWORDv2 server, and we have a handful of clients pushing to us; most of them are not listed on that page.
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#13Def how I consume HN. It’s even nice to see flagged and dead which I wouldn’t see easily if I came via the HN homepage.
How do you get this, may I ask?
I asked because I didn't know how to get exactly that, so I'm building a site that finds RSS feeds from sites on the front page of HN. Then, at the end of the day it emails me with a summary if I miss one.
If anyone wants to try the daily summary email would love feedback.
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#14This is missing planets. A good way to find interesting blogs is to subscribe to a few planets. These are essentially aggregations of blog related to some project/topic. https://planet.gnome.org/ https://planet.kde.org/ https://planet.mozilla.org/ https://planet.documentfoundation.org/ PS. If you know any good planets worth skimming, please add to below :) That said, I don't really have a good RSS reader that syncs a…
I tried Feedly after Google Reader shut down but eventually settled on Feedbin - that might be worth a look.
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#15This is missing planets. A good way to find interesting blogs is to subscribe to a few planets. These are essentially aggregations of blog related to some project/topic. https://planet.gnome.org/ https://planet.kde.org/ https://planet.mozilla.org/ https://planet.documentfoundation.org/ PS. If you know any good planets worth skimming, please add to below :) That said, I don't really have a good RSS reader that syncs a…
Since planet.kde.org is mentioned, it's super easy to create something similar with a bit of python and a static site generator like Hugo :)
https://invent.kde.org/websites/planet-kde-org/-/blob/master...
Re: Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
#16This is missing planets. A good way to find interesting blogs is to subscribe to a few planets. These are essentially aggregations of blog related to some project/topic. https://planet.gnome.org/ https://planet.kde.org/ https://planet.mozilla.org/ https://planet.documentfoundation.org/ PS. If you know any good planets worth skimming, please add to below :) That said, I don't really have a good RSS reader that syncs a…
I tried Feedly after Google Reader shut down but eventually settled on Feedbin - that might be worth a look.
I'm on the Feedly train boat too since the sinking of Google Reader. Besides the ai bs it doesn't really let you search something in your feeds without a subscription, so once I tried Feedbin.
But I went back because third world issues (and not a fan of microtransactions either) I could not find a way (if any) to change the layout on desktop. I really like the minimal list view at Feedly (and even on mobile too).
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#17If anyone needs an rss-to-email service, check out https://pico.sh/feeds
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#18Do try https://diff.blog which is an aggregator of developer blogs which I built around 5 years back.
diff.blog tracks over 2000 dev blogs at the moment.
And you can also follow blogs and topics.
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#19+ for Reeder for macOS and iOS
I follow several feeds and Youtube channels.
Reeder have a very smooth experience.
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#20So many RSS stories this week! I'm sensing a trend (hopefully)
I'm sorry to be the pessimist here, but I doubt it. HN users are the most likely to use RSS in the first place. I sincerely doubt that RSS is going to make a comeback this year with all my non-IT friends using it.