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I'm working on a feed reader, called Lighthouse (https://lighthouseapp.io/). It combines RSS feeds with read-it-later, by putting new content into Inbox, where you can either archive or bookmark. Bookmarked content shows up in Library.
It's fantastic for content curation.
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I use Feedly, which as a RSS reader is ok but probably one of the better ones available on iOS/iPadOS platform. I loved Google Reader back in the day, but Google loves to kill every product of theirs that I actually like and used. I believe the HN feed is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
So, just to confirm, you prefer to read the news on hacker news via RSS? Why? I assumed you meant view the RSS for sites on HN but that's clearly different than what you were thinking.
An advanced RSS reader/browser could bring back the magic of the web.
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Great summary. I'm using a combination of FreshRSS (self-hosted) and Readrops (for Android). I feel like #1 is handled by this combination. But, I wonder what convergent means here for you? I don't notice any performance issues. But, this feels like a simple task for a bunch of RSS feeds. Did you notice performance issues with other readers? There is something very interesting about what you call "automagical discove…
"Convergence" was a term used by Ubuntu in their brief foray into mobile Linux. Alas it never led anywhere, but it still embodies a sort-of holy grail of cross-platform apps with uniform native feel. On performance, yes, in my experience various readers (have not tried them all!) will choke if the feed list grows beyond a hundred or so. If you make consistent use of RSS you don't even need to be a power user to reach…
I've got FreshRSS installed. Email me at the address in my profile if you want to try it. Or, just create an account at reader.rss.surf on your own, I think I've enabled sign ups.
FreshRSS is interesting because you can customize it to use postgresql instead of SQLite (which I did). Normally each user gets their own unique SQLite database, but in my case it is split across postgresql and SQLite now. The way they structure their tables and databases is a bit strange across users.
So 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.
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I use Feedly, which as a RSS reader is ok but probably one of the better ones available on iOS/iPadOS platform. I loved Google Reader back in the day, but Google loves to kill every product of theirs that I actually like and used. I believe the HN feed is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
So, just to confirm, you prefer to read the news on hacker news via RSS? Why? I assumed you meant view the RSS for sites on HN but that's clearly different than what you were thinking.
I prefer to consume HN via my feed reader. I feel like I receive most or all of the original topics/posta without regard to algorithm ranking. So I will see flagged and dead posts and can make my own determination on the topic without a bunch of HN folks determining what I will see. Of course by then commenting is disabled, but that’s fine.
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So, just to confirm, you prefer to read the news on hacker news via RSS? Why? I assumed you meant view the RSS for sites on HN but that's clearly different than what you were thinking.
I do the same. I do it because I subscribe to sites other than HN, and by subscribing to the HN feed I can get the articles from HN as well as the other sites I subscribe to all in the same place, ie my feed reader (also using Feedly). Nothing overly original here as I assume personal content aggregation was one of the original intentions of RSS.
I’d say for general web consumption, pretty much the only way I consume anything now is if it arrived via my feeds.
This 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…