RSS is undead • Hacker News Board

Re: RSS is undead

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Post by da02 » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 3:43 PM UTC

stryk wrote: post #259

da02 wrote: post #257

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Well congratulations on making it out and getting out of that business. Were you assaulted in prison? Why were you good at drug dealer? (I thought most drug dealers make little income...unless it's wholesaling.)

[I can only speak for what I experienced personally, and what facilities I was in and passed thru along the way. It varies from place-to-place and state-to-state based on many factors] Assaulted no. Did I have to fight? You bet. Inside, if you don't protect yourself and/or stand up for what's rightfully yours then you're not going to have a good time at all. At some point someone who is bigger, stronger, tougher, wha…

Thanks again for answering.

Re: RSS is undead

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Post by gregknicholson » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 6:02 PM UTC

gkya wrote: post #269

gregknicholson wrote: post #267

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No, there's a difference between “economically viable” and “useful”. A labour of love may be very valuable to its author and its audience; it's just not a way to make money.

Certainly. What I meant was the content that was meant to make money but not inherently economically viable, i.e. all that clickbait ad-ridden stuff out there.

Ah, yeah. That is useless, by its own measure. Good riddance.

Re: RSS is undead

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Post by guybedo » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 6:16 PM UTC

If you want to try a new RSS reader / news aggregator, you can check out http://aktu.io

Re: RSS is undead

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Post by sh87 » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 11:01 PM UTC

sametmax wrote: post #264

sh87 wrote: post #256

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Adding an RSS feed is easy. Individual writers and hosts have no good reason for not including them. For groups / publishing houses that are not techinically bent generally use publishing platforms that generally support them. For the minority thats excluded from the above, hey, just a shout out and someone will be ready to help (me included). But thats not the real problem, the lack of ads on rss feeds (which is its…

As the OP, I love RSS. But let's not pretend it's always easy. You gotta take in consideration the filters, the configuration, the cache, if you support rss and atom, the routing, and how you integrate it in your design. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

RSS IS easy. Filtering, caching, routing, fancy features are not. I’m okay with a poor RSS feed over none.

Re: RSS is undead

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Post by PappaPatat » Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 12:05 AM UTC

jbigelow76 wrote: post #210

stryk wrote: post #153

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I see Google Reader mentioned a lot when virtually anything RSS-related comes up. I missed out on the whole RSS craze (prison will do that to you). But I have always wondered -- so many people lament the fact that Google killed it -- why hasn't anyone forked/cloned it's UI and feature-set? You don't want to just straight up copy it and wake the Google lawyers from their nests obviously, but why not make something tha…

why hasn't anyone forked/cloned it's UI and feature-set? Somebody did, The Old Reader (theoldreader.com natch) was setup to be as close to Google Reader as possible. I've been a paying user since it launched shortly after the Google Reader shut down, very happy with the service.

There is noway I could keep up with the number of sources I like to keep up with without RSS. Not providing a useable RSS feed as a site is a dealbreaker for me: I will not come back regularly, if at all.

I've been using the oldreader (what a blessing) since Google Reader died (what a shame).

Love the google auth integration (as soon as I log in to my gmail, all my subscribtions are available, no matter what machine I am on ATM), but I never ever thought about paying for the service since it is more then complete for me as it is.

Maybe I should since I truly appreciate it and have found 0 alternatives over the years (and no, I am not going to roll my own, nor host anything, nor install apps across all my devices).

Re: RSS is undead

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Post by ASalazarMX » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 4:39 PM UTC

chmaynard wrote: post #228

ASalazarMX wrote: post #223

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Seeing how faster it is for me (compared to the web interface) to keep up to date with HackerNews after the weekend, I disagree. RSS is excellent to sift and pick many articles.

RSS feeds for Hacker News? Please elaborate.

This one? https://news.ycombinator.com/rss