Most of the information I consume is through RSS. I use Feedly for that.
It's time to head back to RSS?
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#223I'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.
Newsblur is also YC S12. And it has been worked on ever since with some cool features: you can forward your newsletters to it and turn them into RSS feeds(!) for example.
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#224I'm using a self-hosted instance of CommaFeed and it's awesome. Simple, no distractions, fast and reliable.
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#225RSS never went away. Podcasting has made careers (e.g. deboarah francis-white, roman mars, andy & helen zaltzman, ollie mann and many others). The technological underpinning of podcasting is entirely RSS. And it ain't going away, or getting embraced and extended any time soon.
Podcasting feels like an alternate reality where none of the massive players took over and everything stayed federated.
Yep. It's perplexing that a YouTube for podcasts (with centralized ad serving and similar profit sharing) hasn't emerged. The space is endearing - maybe that's why it is so vibrant?
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#226RSS is awesome. Bring on its resurgence. But. It is fundamentally not fit as a Facebook or social media replacement because of it's lack of simple commenting support. It suits some curmudgeonly old farts like me, perhaps. But even I want to feedback sometimes or join in the discussion (hence this comment). Are there solutions that a content creator can provide, via RSS, without requiring its readers to install partic…
I think HN might be the only place I read the comments. Missing the hell stew of a comments section is a feature as I see it.
50% of the time I read the comments before/instead the link !!!
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#227https://miniflux.net - simple and self-hosted
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Feedly is fantastic. Coupled with Reeder on iOS it more than replaces.
I'm curious about your comment. Why don't you use Feedly by itself? Why/how do you combine Feedly with Reeder?
Reeder works with multiple backend providers, Feedly being one of them. I do the same, have had a great experience.
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#229Funny, I've set up a RSS reader again just this week. Prior to that, my main source of information was google feed (when you sweep right on android main screen - for those who don't know it, it's a feed of news curated by google supposed to match our interests). I totally loved it, as it properly detected my interests and shown articles about them even from websites I don't know about. But lately, I saw more and more…
A lot of people don't seem to be aware of it, but you can "tune" Google News by adding or deleting sources. I've tweaked mine quite a bit and it works well as a lazy news source. It's not as finely granulated as my RSS consumption, and it won't replace my RSS reader, but it's better than I at first thought it would be after adjusting the defaults.
I've given up on that but haven't sought alternatives. I'm not sure what began influencing my feed, but even after removing sources, choosing what was useful and what I wasn't interested in, it still mainly gives me popular and political news, which were never set in my interests.
Other than that, it gives me information that's a day late, which makes things like one-day sales notifications for not useful.
I've largely switched to podcasts to make up for the content gap but would be interested in a aggregator that didn't try so hard to be smart.
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#230I used RSS while Google reader existed, and I stopped using it for a few years after it disappeared. Now, I'm using a service that sends some RSS feed to my email so so can read them directly from there. I think it's amazing as it has all the features I need (tagging, mark read / unread) and I don't need to open another website / application to read my news.
Have you got a link?
I also use https://blogtrottr.com/ like another mentions. There are some ads, but they don't appear in the email if you have an adblocker. I'm think about paying the service, which I find very nice !