It's time to head back to RSS? • Hacker News Board

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by cedricbonhomme » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 11:40 AM UTC

I use my own RSS reader since around 8 years now. It has evolved quite a lot. Before I was using aKregator.

I started with a simple CherryPy project and a SQLite database. It is now using Flask, SQLAlchemy and React: https://www.newspipe.org/

I have something like 200000 articles in the database. And the oldest article is from February 1995!

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by mikulabc » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 11:41 AM UTC

goodnews.click been around a while :)

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by icebraining » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 11:45 AM UTC

keypress wrote: post #174

username223 wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't most blogging platforms have the option to email replies? In any case, I prefer a bit of friction in the comment process, since it discourages people from "shooting off" without thinking.

Usenet with dial-up was good for this. You'd compose your reply, then look it back up, read over, amend, perhaps delete or send later. It made for more considered responses. I've noticed with HN it's very swarm-like and transient these days. Comment following is also difficult without some thread control. At a minimum you need collapsible threads. Too much to read, don't bother, say something that's been said already…

HN has collapsible threads nowadays (it's the [-] symbol on the post header).

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by mike-- » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 11:47 AM UTC

Another one - https://github.com/truerss/truerss

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by icebraining » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 11:48 AM UTC

pacoverdi wrote: post #110

> THE MODERN WEB contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers This is from a page that connects to (excerpt): c.amazon-adsystem.com z-na.amazon-adsystem.com tag.bounceexchange.com graph.facebook.com sb.scorecardresearch.com cdn.mediavoice.com odb.outbrain.com cdn.quantummetric.com native.sharethrough.com s.skimresources.com pixel.tapad.com d.turn.com p.typekit.net use.typekit.net cdn.yldbt.com segment…

Well, you gotta write about what you know! /s

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by Symmetry » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 11:55 AM UTC

noam87 wrote: post #60

I've been a (paying) user of NewsBlur ( https://newsblur.com/ ) since Google Reader shut down and haven't looked back. p.s: In HN spirit, it also happens to be one developer's side-project-turned-profitable-business, and the "social" features a totally non-intrusive, but there if you want to know what people are sharing and commenting on.

After Google Reader went away I was actively looking for a reader where, by giving the creator money, I was ensuring it would stick around. And also where I was the customer rather than the product. There's a free version you can use to try it out but it's limited in the number of feeds. And $24 a year isn't a high price for what I'm getting.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by jasonkostempski » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 11:57 AM UTC

Multiple sources in one place, no new account, no giving away your email, no re-skimming over read/skipped articles (across sorces if your reader is any good), filters for known garbage (domains with pay/sign-up walls, blog spam, etc.).

My frustration with YouTube subscription mechanics is what resparked my interest in RSS years ago, that's when I found out most channels have a hidden RSS feed. Reddit has them, but the way they're delivered makes them difficult/impossible to filter. Most blogs have them, even if they don't display a link.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by Symmetry » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 11:57 AM UTC

twelve40 wrote: post #150

mosselman wrote: post #76

I completely agree. When did RSS go out of style anyway? The other day I wanted to subscribe to an author's posts on Medium, but I couldn't find a RSS feed anywhere, so I never did. Seems like a loss for the author to me, seeing as gaining influence and credibility is probably the goal of many who write posts. It would also seem as if Medium doesn't want to add RSS as it would take control away in terms of recommendi…

It went out of style for the mainstream because they haven't (yet) figured out how to lace it with ads.

Many websites which rely on paid adds put only the title and first paragraph in the RSS feed with a link to the article. But that notification is pretty convenient, so I'm still willing to use those sites' RSS feeds.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by icebraining » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 11:57 AM UTC

knorker wrote: post #146

I don't understand. If RSS went away, how did people read webcomics and stuff like that?

I assume Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, email subscriptions or simply visiting the site regularly.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by captn3m0 » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 12:02 PM UTC

Does anyone know of something that could help maintain OPML files? I would like to keep a long list of categorized RSS feeds in a simple YAML file and generate a OPML feed out of that.