RSS is crucial for me to get custom keyword alerts from various SEC filings feeds from companies I watch.
InoReader makes a great assistant in this way. I'm not affiliated at all.
RSS is undead
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#172Most of the problems the author mentions are, to me, the actual reasons I love RSS. No filtering. No comments. No proposal. No central way to find them. It's not the absence of curation. It's my curation. It's easy: I like a site, I want news, I get the RSS. I delete it when it's not to my taste anymore. The basic, deterministic, manual aspect of it is what's right with it. Not what's wrong. Another weird idea is tha…
> No filtering. Shameless(-ish) plug for my project, siftrss: https://siftrss.com/ You add a source feed, include/exclude items by keyword or regex match, and get a new filtered feed to subscribe to. Because it produces a normal RSS feed like any other, it works with all RSS readers. It's totally free. No ads, no account, no email capture, nothing but totally disposable RSS feed filters.
Hmm, you might want to know (or already do) that Feedly just added keyword filtering - brings in some competition :)
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds like... a fantastic idea! Why would they kill that off?! No easy way to inject ads into I guess (at least that people would be willing to put up with).
>Why would they kill that off?! It happened back when "Social" was a big thing and Google was trying to push everyone onto its erstwhile Facebook competitor Google+ and it's erstwhile Twitter competitor Google Buzz. First they killed the social feed and made the button auto-post to your Google Buzz account, but Buzz being a version of Twitter, had a lot more noise to signal so nobody used it that way. They probably e…
thanks I'll check that out
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#174Most of the problems the author mentions are, to me, the actual reasons I love RSS. No filtering. No comments. No proposal. No central way to find them. It's not the absence of curation. It's my curation. It's easy: I like a site, I want news, I get the RSS. I delete it when it's not to my taste anymore. The basic, deterministic, manual aspect of it is what's right with it. Not what's wrong. Another weird idea is tha…
> Another weird idea is that RSS should be for everybody. No. It speaks to a certain kind of people, and that's fine.
Well, that's fine as long as that group of people is big enough for the sites I care about to consider it worthwhile enough to actually add an RSS feed :)
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#175> losing your logo, colors, and fonts on an article is an effective way to kill enterprise value Dropping the garbage styles is one of my favorite things about RSS. Using my TT-RSS via phone app is a lot speedier than the "enterprise value" provided by the native site. This article loads 3.97MB with an adblocker. In TT-RSS, I can load the homepage and a full-page RSS article from Ars Technica for only 600kb.
It's interesting, because that functionality is why I mentally usually draw parallels between AMP and RSS. Except AMP seems to have better success pushing management to implement it, which is probably due to Google's prominent placement of articles that have AMP versions available.
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#176If you're considering giving RSS a try, here are a few of my favorite services:
Inoreader, a fantastic Google Reader clone that supports advanced filtering and following Twitter feed. https://www.inoreader.com/
HNRSS, for seeing all comments with some words. https://hnrss.org/
Nice paid service for visually scraping pages into RSS feeds https://feedity.com/
Convert summary feeds into full text feeds http://fivefilters.org/content-only/
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#177Don't call it a comeback - RSS never went away.
I find the "pull" model of RSS much nicer to deal with than the "push" model of twitter and facebook. You simply cannot keep up with your twitter feed if you add 20 or 30 publishers that tweet every day. But those same 20 or 30 publishes in an RSS reader are easy to deal with.
Of course, the publishers dislike RSS because it messes with their metrics, discourages stickiness, and makes advertising difficult. 3 things that aren't my problem.
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#178If you're considering giving RSS a try, here are a few of my favorite services: Inoreader, a fantastic Google Reader clone that supports advanced filtering and following Twitter feed. https://www.inoreader.com/ HNRSS, for seeing all comments with some words. https://hnrss.org/ Nice paid service for visually scraping pages into RSS feeds https://feedity.com/ Convert summary feeds into full text feeds http://fivefilter…
I just tried out that fivefilters full text service on my own blog (which shamefully only provides summaries in the feeds) and it worked seamlessly. I shall be using it in the future.
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#179Does anyone know how well JSON Feed [0] is doing?
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely Google Reader had numbers that influenced the decision to shut it down?
I see Google Reader mentioned a lot when virtually anything RSS-related comes up. I missed out on the whole RSS craze (prison will do that to you). But I have always wondered -- so many people lament the fact that Google killed it -- why hasn't anyone forked/cloned it's UI and feature-set? You don't want to just straight up copy it and wake the Google lawyers from their nests obviously, but why not make something tha…
When Reader was killed, I switched to Feedly and haven't looked back. It took Reader's feature-set (at least, the features I care about) and has continued to provide a robust application for consuming news. I never used the social bits of Reader, though.