I use RSS in a way that doesn't incite me to read everything... there is no unread status on any of the feed elements.
I Still Use RSS
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Re: I Still Use RSS
#232I recently got back into RSS. I am running https://miniflux.app/ on one of my boxes and its been great. Typically, most days I keep on top of my news/interest in close to real time but there are days where this doesnt happy, just too busy. So I jump into miniflux which is pulling in news and I can quickly in a few minutes scroll and get a good feel for what's going on, what I have missed and explore further anything…
I’m using miniflux too, deploy with Docker take a few minutes and it just works.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
As far as I can tell, because RSS requires the cooperation of actors who have no incentive to cooperate. If I use an RSS reader to support content, then it is under my control when I read it, if I read it, and what format to read it under. I can view the content however I'd like, and no tracking is there. All of these are unambiguously good things for me, and are anathema for the advertising industry. I cannot use RS…
> As far as I can tell, because RSS requires the cooperation of actors who have no incentive to cooperate. Do you mean in the sense that content providers want to dictate more than just information delivery to consumers, or something else?
Yup, that is exactly the sense that I mean. Ad-supported web sites have an incentive to have information viewable only when viewed alongside advertisements.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#234Is RSS really so obscure as the site suggests? Every website I am interested in updates from provides a feed. Apparently YouTube content creators receive more money if they have more subscribers, but I don't subscribe and simply use the RSS feed; it's easier. Perhaps YouTube also factors in the number of RSS requæsts they receive.
This may say more about paid conversions than anything else, but Ars Technica's main feed, with truncated article previews, currently has 470k subscribers on Feedly. Their full-article feeds, available as part of their paid subscription, were estimated at only a few hundred users, when they briefly broke a few years back. https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1371767
I pay Ars firstly for the full article RSS feed and second help support them.
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#235I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed. While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for…
Woah .. thanks for [3]. Who made this ? Why don't they Show HN ? It has been submitted only 3 times ( including 5 minutes ago by me ) and never had more than 8 points ... this is pretty cool stuff, some fruitful exchanges assuredly go to waste for lack of someone checking their comments from two days ago ...
Re: I Still Use RSS
#236I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed. While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for…
Aww man, I just wrote my own replies fetcher script in php the other day before I heard about hnrss
Care to ( can you ) share what that looks like ?
Re: I Still Use RSS
#237I've mentioned this on HN before, one pattern I've noticed is a lot of sites tend to truncate their RSS feed so you have to click through to see the full article etc. This is mostly OK but kinda frustrating, as in the before-covid times I used to ride the London Underground a lot where no celluar signal is available in the tunnels - so my offline RSS reader would be useless. So I wrote a little web service accepts an…
This would largely have saved RSS for me. I'd argue there was a glorious era in late 2000s where you could almost replace your browser with a good feed reader and get vast majority of news/info this way. It was just so nice to have a single UI surface for all news stories rather than poking through many different websites. I understand my using the sites that way contributes nothing really to their bottom line, I nev…
I still find feeds from truncated useful as I can scan through the headlines quickly; I rarely want to read everything a publisher puts out there. When something catches my eye my RSS viewer, Feedbin, can attempt to fetch the entire one for me and if that fails visiting the site directly is tolerable.
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#238Reading this via Feeder from my phone.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#239I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed. While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for…
Another very happy Feedbin user here. I've subscribed for several years.
I recently moved all my YouTube subscriptions to Feedbin. World of difference. I see what I ask for, and nothing more.
Same with Twitter. I quit the platform more than a year ago, but there are just a few accounts that I actually want to keep track of. Feedbin does it seamlessly.
Re: I Still Use RSS
#240Is RSS really so obscure as the site suggests? Every website I am interested in updates from provides a feed. Apparently YouTube content creators receive more money if they have more subscribers, but I don't subscribe and simply use the RSS feed; it's easier. Perhaps YouTube also factors in the number of RSS requæsts they receive.
This may say more about paid conversions than anything else, but Ars Technica's main feed, with truncated article previews, currently has 470k subscribers on Feedly. Their full-article feeds, available as part of their paid subscription, were estimated at only a few hundred users, when they briefly broke a few years back. https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1371767
> Ars Technica's main feed, with truncated article previews, currently has 470k subscribers on Feedly
But how many of them are actually using their feed? You reminded me that I signed up for a Feedly account years ago right after Google shut down their RSS product. I just checked and indeed I am subscribed to Ars, among a dozen other feeds.