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“We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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Post by sumthinprofound »

afrazkhan wrote: post #15
eloeffler wrote: post #11

Is there a current and well functioning tool that pulls full articles from the links inside most RSS feeds that only publish teasers? When I first discovered RSS for me, I wanted news to read on the road. It was before Smartphones became ubiquitous. Unfortunately most news sites only published a few lines of text per article. Now, I would like to do the same when there is no network coverage. But I still don't know a…

Yup, Inoreader.

Inoreader (paid pro version) will also allow you to create feeds for sites that do not publish via rss.

Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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Post by kelseyfrog »

mdp2021 wrote: post #9

Obsolete?! Replaced by what?!?!?!? I think obsolescence implies replacement!

I'm not so sure. Take vhs rewinders for example. VHS cassettes and players were obsoleted by DVDs and DVD players respectively but there is no analogous new tech to the rewinder. It was a dead end. Maybe I'm splitting hairs.

Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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Post by shadowgovt »

rendall wrote: post #13
shadowgovt wrote: post #6

As much as I pine for the days when RSS was ubiquitous, I trust them to have the access logs to conclude that nobody is using their RSS feed.

You would trust the web developer of this unnamed NGO you heard about 3rd or 4th hand to do what now?

I extend to them the same default I extend to every random site maintainer on the internet: an assumption of basic competence until shown evidence to the contrary.

It is, perhaps, giving too much credit. Perhaps the average is lower than I think it is. But if it is, we would arrive at the same situation, because a developer that struggles below the average will struggle to maintain an RSS feed. We could anticipate them cutting whatever corners they can justify cutting to decrease their workload.

Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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Post by belorn »

mdp2021 wrote: post #9

Obsolete?! Replaced by what?!?!?!? I think obsolescence implies replacement!

RSS is replaced by personalized feeds that people see by logging into specific platforms and participate through the intended user engagement. That is how those companies earn money.

Re: “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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Post by arvigeus »

eloeffler wrote: post #11

Is there a current and well functioning tool that pulls full articles from the links inside most RSS feeds that only publish teasers? When I first discovered RSS for me, I wanted news to read on the road. It was before Smartphones became ubiquitous. Unfortunately most news sites only published a few lines of text per article. Now, I would like to do the same when there is no network coverage. But I still don't know a…

Some self hosted RSS readers do that. I use Miniflux and you can set css selectors to fetch original content. It does not work when the article is a link to something (like this thread on HN)
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