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Re: RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps

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Post by uoaei » Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 4:35 PM UTC

PeterisP wrote: post #115

uoaei wrote: post #100

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Yes. Feedly seems to be marketing itself at investors and speculators lately (or trading bots I suppose), because they're using NLP to highlight and categorize articles based on whether they mention acquisitions, mergers, leadership changes, etc.

Feedly seems to be marketing itself as whatever interest group they think you are, because they're using NLP to highlight and categorize articles but at least for me not regarding whether they mention acquisitions, mergers, leadership changes, etc (though some of the articles my feed do) but rather whether they mention new security vulnerabilities or attacks - and I'd guess the same for many other specific niche doma…

I also saw the "new exploit" notifications. It may just be a question of feed curation, too.

Re: RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps

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Post by pepjo26 » Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 4:42 PM UTC

babelfish wrote: post #42

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #30

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I dropped Feedly because I found that 90%+ of my feeds would only put the article title and the first sentence into the feed, then require I click the URL to pull up the full article. It wasn't very fun constantly having to switch between my RSS app and my browser, so I just stopped using it.

This is an issue with the site's RSS feed, not Feedly. Feedly has an option to open any individual feeds posts in an in-app browser directly (and if you're on iOS, even enable Reader mode!) to combat this, so you don't need to switch apps!

I use Reeder for iOS + Feedly. What the OP describes started happening to me with all sites at the same time 2 days ago. Interestingly, it does not happen on the main Feedly site. So I do think that Feedly is making the experience worse with third party readers. I would speculate that this is done because third party readers don’t show ads.

Re: RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps

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Post by zja » Wed, Jul 20, 2022, 8:36 PM UTC

aendruk wrote: post #119

zja wrote: post #118

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How have you been doing that? I'm new to using matrix, is that a builtin functionality or an extension to the client you use?

Just a few days. It’s done by running an external service that joins rooms and listens for commands. We’re using maubot [1] since it’s one of the more popular ones, but it has some rough edges [2] [3] [4]. Our setup for just the “rss” plugin is dockerized and documented here [5]. [1]: https://github.com/maubot/maubot#readme [2]: https://github.com/maubot/maubot/issues/110 [3]: https://github.com/maubot/maubot/pull/14…

Very cool, thanks!

Re: RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps

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Post by krisdigital » Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 5:53 PM UTC

powersnail wrote: post #26

RSS has been alive this whole time. Blogs usually have it by default, the big news organizations have it. The only thing I'm not satisfied with reading news on RSS, is that news organizations push too many articles, to the point that reading the headlines alone takes quite some time. There's nearly 100 articles per day per source sometimes. Unlike a newspaper, which has a natural structure of priority and hierarchy,…

I had a similar problem and created nooshub.com some years ago, it groups similar articles and uses the group size to detect news trends, but everything can also be configured per feed collection if you prefer chronological feeds. I use this to quickly check what is going on with high rate feeds, for other feeds like podcasts I keep it classic... You can see it in action on some pages that do not require login like https://www.nooshub.com/pages/7-news-international

Re: RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps

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Post by blooalien » Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 1:27 PM UTC

jethro_tell wrote: post #45

thaumasiotes wrote: post #41

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The word never made much sense though. A "podcast" is a file that you download from the internet. What's the point of calling it a podcast?

And yet here we are clicking a floppy disk icon to save it. Language and meaning change over time. That's OK.

> "Language and meaning change over time."

What I just love is when people use this excuse to justify "borrowing" a clearly defined technical term, using it incorrectly, and then insisting that their incorrect usage of that term is entirely valid because "language and meaning change over time."

(Not saying you're one of those people at all but that is one of the most frequent uses of that phrase that I tend to experience from other people.)