Shouldn't the HN title be the same as the article's title "Why I Still Use RSS"?
I Still Use RSS
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#242Does anybody have a recommendation on a tutorial for implementing RSS from scratch, for a personal website? I've been meaning to on mine but haven't found a good resource
Edit: Found one https://alexanderle.com/create-an-rss-feed-from-scratch
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#243I'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…
> I've never open sourced it though because I guess it's a bit of a grey area
I'm maintaining the TT-RSS plugin feediron https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron that fetches full-text data, so my thinking is this:
At the end of the day if it's a openly available website and you are personally (through your own server) fetching the resources I don't think anyone has a right to complain.
Now if you were offering it as a service it might arguably be a bit more grey, but only if you're ignoring the robots.txt file
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#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve never had as peaceful a work life as back when I used yahoo pipes to organize all the RSS feeds from GitHub and Jira and others into a unified view of what’s happening in all my projects. It broke due to a fluke because a network engineer decided to try to implement a software based firewall that blocked rss files. This was such a weird error but the engineer didn’t know what rss or curl was if that tells you so…
I don't want to spam the project, but since you mention Pipes like that: I tried to bring it back with https://www.pipes.digital/ . Can't do everything the original could and some things it just does differently, but merging RSS feeds and filtering them is exactly the main thing I use it for myself.
Thanks for sharing this, awesome project. The feature set looks pretty comprehensive from the screenshots.
Is there a way to export the created canvas from the editor?
I’m imagining a workflow where people/teams create the RSS processing canvases and then share them using an export.
Also is there a CLI tool?
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#245Off topic maybe, but I was surprised to see that this site's RSS feed actually has CSS for styling! I don't think I've ever seen that before. Pretty sure I've only ever seen "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below."
The RSS feed: https://atthis.link/rss.xml
And the linked CSS: https://atthis.link/rss.css
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#246Podcasts are another element keeping RSS alive. The recent
exponential growth of podcasts should help keep RSS going. Podcasts rely heavily on RSS syndication for distribution. This reminds me of how the internet used to work, hope we get some of that highly distributed non-centralized world back.
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#247I 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…
Damn, as someone who has only ever subscribed to RSS feeds on the odd occasion in the past, your comment here has really shone a light on just how powerful this tool can be.
Thanks for sharing this insight!
Is your daily driver OS also Ubuntu? How do you organise / consume your RSS feed(s)?
Seems like you've really streamlined your setup to the point of it having minimal friction - I'd be keen to try emulate this.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here, RSS is the center of all my internet content consumption. How else could one keep track of things? There isn't any substitute. I get HN via RSS but didn't know about the replies feed, cool! I use rss2email to turn everything into effectively a mailing list, so convenient. Very sad that craigslist broke their RSS feed a few months ago, so I can no longer shop for anything advertised there for sale.
Using rss2email crossed my mind a few times since I already spend most of my day in the terminal anyway, but it always end up being left for tomorrow. I should take a look at it tomorrow.
I run a paid email forwarding service that allows you to redirect mail sent to a burner address to be published as an RSS feed. Link in my bio if you're interested.
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#249I set up my own rss server using Fresh RSS; got it running in a docker environment on my kubernetes cluster (buzzword bingo). I was an avid google reader fan but only came back to RSS when I abandoned Facebook, Reddit and slowly off Twitter. I don't follow feeds that don't give me the full RSS content (quickly unsubscribe). It's really brought back a joy to reading and I avoid doom scrolling; wonderful really. Oh and there's plenty of open source apps that interact with Fresh RSS, really a great tool.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve never had as peaceful a work life as back when I used yahoo pipes to organize all the RSS feeds from GitHub and Jira and others into a unified view of what’s happening in all my projects. It broke due to a fluke because a network engineer decided to try to implement a software based firewall that blocked rss files. This was such a weird error but the engineer didn’t know what rss or curl was if that tells you so…
God, Yahoo Pipes is a blast from the past. Yahoo did so many things that were new and interesting, but never seemed to be able to bring them altogether into a cohesive product.
I remember I discovered a page of just amazing project after amazing they released with most recently abandoned and the rest following shortly thereafter.
I don't think any of it was so groundbreaking it would be useful today but there were a number of wheels that would end up being reinvented between then and now.