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Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by al_borland »

netule wrote: post #7
k2enemy wrote: post #2

Boy do I feel old if a short, low content PSA about the existence of RSS is considered "hacker news."

Not only that, but an ad for their mobile app. Pretty low quality content.

It’s not their app. NetNewsWire is developed by Brent Simmons and has been around for over 20 years. It’s free and open source. Last I saw, he didn’t even accept donations.

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by msgodel »

colesantiago wrote: post #10

> RSS is really simple, so it is still very well supported. Notably, all substack publications automatically have an RSS feed included at https://{{substack-domain}}/feed . I wonder how long that will last until Substack closes it, I have never seen an RSS feed where the author is able to make it sustainable for them to make money from it.

Substack seems to have done an incredible job allowing people to monetize their blogs. Maybe Substack themselves aren't profitable but the authors certainly seem to be doing well.

As someone who's subscribed to a lot of substacks the thing that brought me there was the availability of asynchronous reading (mail, rss newsletters.) I'm sure I'm not alone in disliking the actual site itself.

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Post by nntwozz »

senectus1 wrote: post #5
k2enemy wrote: post #2

Boy do I feel old if a short, low content PSA about the existence of RSS is considered "hacker news."

I mean.. it shouldn't be controversial.. but people keep claiming rss is dead. not in my world it aint.

Podcasts needs an RSS feed, that about sums it up how not dead it is.

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Post by Defletter »

The only complaint I have about RSS is that it seems antagonistic to edits. It's not usual that, when refreshing my podcast RSS feed, there are multiple versions of the same episodes because they made some edit somewhere in the title or description, etc. I've had five versions of the same episode before. I feel like we should have the technology to fix this by now :P

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Post by lwhsiao »

Defletter wrote: post #14

The only complaint I have about RSS is that it seems antagonistic to edits. It's not usual that, when refreshing my podcast RSS feed, there are multiple versions of the same episodes because they made some edit somewhere in the title or description, etc. I've had five versions of the same episode before. I feel like we should have the technology to fix this by now :P

We do. Atom feeds have an updated field for this. But, it's up to whoever is generating the feed to know how to handle their metadata.

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Post by vhcr »

Defletter wrote: post #14

The only complaint I have about RSS is that it seems antagonistic to edits. It's not usual that, when refreshing my podcast RSS feed, there are multiple versions of the same episodes because they made some edit somewhere in the title or description, etc. I've had five versions of the same episode before. I feel like we should have the technology to fix this by now :P

That's what the guid / id field is for.

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Post by 627467 »

user3939382 wrote: post #6
k2enemy wrote: post #2

Boy do I feel old if a short, low content PSA about the existence of RSS is considered "hacker news."

RSS is the antidote to algorithm feeds. I’m glad for any mention of it. 90% of the tools users need were built 1970-2000 including RSS.

Having restarted using rss in the past months (after probably 10+ years of not using it) i am now starting to remember why I stopped using it: lack of a personal "algorithm" that made hundreds (if not 1000s) of unread daily items to be manageable.

I know part of it is on me. I need to let go, unsubscribe aggressively, etc... but this is... work?

Im not a regular iOS user, but on it I have feeeeds which actually seem to have a sane personal "algorithm" of sorts that doesn't force ALL feeds items onto me, and also isn't purely chronological.

More readers should have this

Re: RSS is awesome

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Post by ropable »

I'm sad that a basic description of what RSS consists of makes it onto HN. I still upvoted to help educate the kids :/

FYI FreshRSS is fairly trivial to self-host, and is a really nice option for an RSS reader app.

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