I've created Tip Of The Day [1], an open-source website that provides daily tips from several categories. RSS is the recommended way to consume the content, but people can also use the web version or JSON.
Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
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Re: Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
#22Been using and paying for newsblur for some years now. Absolutely love it
Anything particular about it that you like. What makes it worth paying for? Just curious.
Another NewsBlur user and fan here. Here are only a few of the reasons I like it:
1. Extracts full text of RSS articles.
2. Is also a Twitter client
3. Ability to read email newsletters
4. Open source and works well with other services
5. Sophisticated iOS app (believes there’s something for android too)
6. Comment on and share articles through its (quasi)network of BlurBlogs. See for example its founder’s blog: https://samuel.newsblur.com/
7. Easily import, export, add RSS/Atom feeds, jsonfeed and OPML.
8. A helpful community: https://forum.newsblur.com/
And many more:
Re: Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
#23Been using and paying for newsblur for some years now. Absolutely love it
Anything particular about it that you like. What makes it worth paying for? Just curious.
@benrapscallion has pretty much mentioned everything. It works and has been working fine for the past 7 years that I have been using it. You can self host but I felt $24 per year for something I use daily is worth it.
Its cross platform and has an excellent Android app that I use. Has some nifty AI. text filtering capabilities that help to sort articles. It does both river of news and email inbox style rss display. Fast support as well and fairly active development that you can track on their repo
After Google Reader shut down I tried a lot of different services and Newsblur felt to me the most closest and natural successor. Its interface is simple and has been largely unchanged, so helps with muscle memory.
Re: Why and how to use RSS for consuming knowledge
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
But RSS is everywhere. I use it for so many blogs and sites, as do many others. And for sites that don't have RSS there are services to turn them into RSS feeds. You can turn newsletters into RSS feeds. You can have RSS in your email client. RSS is thriving.
Is there a reliable way to create RSS feeds for sites that don't have them? That would be really great...
Try web feeds?
E.g. https://www.inoreader.com/blog/2020/04/convert-almost-any-we...