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Re: RSS is awesome

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I was extremely bummed when setting up RSS for the glance app to find that a bunch of stuff I'd assumed would just have RSS feeds, do not. Mostly local things that post regular updates to pages that already look like feeds. - Three local independent theaters - Every local venue I checked in my city (admittedly only checked a few I was specifically interested in) - The local dvd rental place (we still have one and it'…

You can give notify-me.rs a try if you want as well. We have a free plan available, and we should be able to track all of the sites you mentioned. If you do give it a try, let me know what you think, since I'm one of the founders. Cheers!

Something is up with your web page. It stutters when scrolling, and crashes my tab. I’m using Safari on an iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 18.6.2 (22G100). No content blockers or extensions.

Re: RSS is awesome

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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

I think the problem is that there are so many different standards[0] which makes it hard to parse them in a uniform format. The second problem is the most feeds only have 15 items, even if a reader handles updates they are fast lost for ever.

[0] https://ivyreader.com/articles/rss-standart-collection

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