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Re: The View from RSS

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Post by sixtyj »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #2

I’d like to use this space to praise everyone involved in creating and keeping NetNewsWire alive. I (re)discovered RSS a few months ago via NetNewsWire, and it’s so calming and empowering to curate one’s own feed. Rumors of RSS’ death are greatly exaggerated.

RSS’ death is real - 15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare.

So if you want to make news feed from news sites, you have to use parsing their html code, and ofc everybody has its own structure. JS powered sites are painful ones.

Re: The View from RSS

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Post by rambambram »

rambambram wrote: post #3

Nice! I'm also around 2000 feeds in my reader, carefully selected over a couple of years. Only difference: I always click through to the website to read an article. Now in the process of slowly making RSS my only social feed. Have a hard time of leaving Youtube, but once I embedded the videos of the channels I follow in my RSS reader I see a way of not getting annoyed by the recommendation algorithm on their website…

I forgot to say, most of these 2000 feeds I have from here on HN. Please keep posting on your own website/blog and 'share' with RSS.

Re: The View from RSS

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Post by elashri »

I think the space of RSS feed readers and aggregators are very rich already. The pain point for ordinary users is to have easy way to generate RSS feeds for websites that don't provide organic one.

There are few options but mostly proprietary and expensive. And no normal person will want to play the CSS tricks to extract feed that something like FreshRSS support.

Re: The View from RSS

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Post by abetusk »

jurakovic wrote: post #9

I love RSS but I didn't find good enough online reader that can be customized to my liking, so I built my own: https://jurakovic.github.io/dev-links/news/ I have many more ideas, but I don't have that much free time to implement all of it (even with Claude Code). But it serves me very well for now

Here's mine: https://mechaelephant.com/feed

I do feel like RSS feeds are one of the easier things to do DIY, custom to people's specific taste of how to list data of this sort. All the 'off the shelf' RSS feeds that I see feel contrived, cluttered and bloated.

Re: The View from RSS

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Post by nickthegreek »

Current setup is freshrss running in a proxmox lxc on prem + tailscale. Big fan of the lire iOS app for interacting on mobile and use the freshrss webui on desktop. killthenewsletter helps patch in some email stuff too. RSS and NNTP are 2 technologies that have been with me for decades and you are gonna have to pry them from me.

Re: The View from RSS

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Post by 6510 »

sixtyj wrote: post #11
cadamsdotcom wrote: post #2

I’d like to use this space to praise everyone involved in creating and keeping NetNewsWire alive. I (re)discovered RSS a few months ago via NetNewsWire, and it’s so calming and empowering to curate one’s own feed. Rumors of RSS’ death are greatly exaggerated.

RSS’ death is real - 15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare. So if you want to make news feed from news sites, you have to use parsing their html code, and ofc everybody has its own structure. JS powered sites are painful ones.

There are feeds of everything. You just have to look harder.

edit: provide an example please

Re: The View from RSS

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Post by conesus »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #2

I’d like to use this space to praise everyone involved in creating and keeping NetNewsWire alive. I (re)discovered RSS a few months ago via NetNewsWire, and it’s so calming and empowering to curate one’s own feed. Rumors of RSS’ death are greatly exaggerated.

Seriously. I've been updating NewsBlur with all the pet features people have wanted for years and I'm finding that it's even more enjoyable now with all those AI features built in. Daily briefing, ask AI, story clustering, all of these are AI-flavored improvements to RSS and it's so relaxing to open up my river of news and scroll through all the good stuff without feeling a gross algorithm surfacing endless outrage.

I read plenty of X as well as scroll through various social media apps and nothing comes close to how great RSS feels to read.

Re: The View from RSS

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Post by conesus »

simonw wrote: post #5
cadamsdotcom wrote: post #2

I’d like to use this space to praise everyone involved in creating and keeping NetNewsWire alive. I (re)discovered RSS a few months ago via NetNewsWire, and it’s so calming and empowering to curate one’s own feed. Rumors of RSS’ death are greatly exaggerated.

NetNewsWire is SO good - both the macOS and iPhone apps. Real labor of love. We are very lucky to have it.

I was a NNW user for years and it's why I eventually built my own news reader. NNW had a lot of great features and I wanted to mostly keep them. You might find that NewsBlur takes a similar path but with a different set of opinions.

Re: The View from RSS

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Post by quectophoton »

6510 wrote: post #16
sixtyj wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RSS’ death is real - 15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare. So if you want to make news feed from news sites, you have to use parsing their html code, and ofc everybody has its own structure. JS powered sites are painful ones.

There are feeds of everything. You just have to look harder. edit: provide an example please

Not exactly a "news" site, but this is still an example site that you'd expect would have a feed:

https://mistral.ai/news/

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