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Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by nwellinghoff »

freetonik wrote: post #10

Apologies for promoting my project again (did this in at least 2 other threads related to RSS), but I'm weirdly proud of it: I'm curating a list of human-written blogs on my blog reader/discovery/search engine called Minifeed: https://minifeed.net/blogs/ There's an OPML export available as well: https://minifeed.net/blogs/opml.xml

When you “open original to view full content” and then use browser back to get to your page, the back history is removed and you can’t click back again to get to your main page. Makes it hard to navigate. Love the site.

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by worble »

therealfiona wrote: post #22

I've been meaning to get back on the RSS wagon. I ran TT-RSS some years ago and it fell apart at one time due to my lack of time to maintain it. Is TT-RSS still the go-to, or is there something else I should take a look at?

I'm a big fan of miniflux, although I'm still looking for a mobile client that ticks all my boxes

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by freetonik »

bsnnkv wrote: post #25
freetonik wrote: post #10

Apologies for promoting my project again (did this in at least 2 other threads related to RSS), but I'm weirdly proud of it: I'm curating a list of human-written blogs on my blog reader/discovery/search engine called Minifeed: https://minifeed.net/blogs/ There's an OPML export available as well: https://minifeed.net/blogs/opml.xml

I really like this project, such a beautiful design carefully executed on!

Thank you! I went through multiple iterations of designing the visuals, wanted to keep it very clean and "texty", but not overly brutalist at the same time.

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by freetonik »

nwellinghoff wrote: post #31
freetonik wrote: post #10

Apologies for promoting my project again (did this in at least 2 other threads related to RSS), but I'm weirdly proud of it: I'm curating a list of human-written blogs on my blog reader/discovery/search engine called Minifeed: https://minifeed.net/blogs/ There's an OPML export available as well: https://minifeed.net/blogs/opml.xml

When you “open original to view full content” and then use browser back to get to your page, the back history is removed and you can’t click back again to get to your main page. Makes it hard to navigate. Love the site.

Not sure I understand. The "open original.." is a plain link with target="_blank", and Minifeed is a pure classic HTML web app with zero JS shenanigans. There is nothing which can manipulate the history.

Since the link opens in a new tab by default (because of target="_blank"), that new tab naturally does not have a "back" history. Is this what you mean?

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by SeanKilleen »

In case it's helpful / relevant for folks, wanted to share a few things I do:

* OPML is a format that bundles feeds together to share with others.

* I publish an automated list of the feeds I'm subscribed to on my blog. [1]

* I pay for Feedly ($50/year and I don't regret it) which has API access, and I use an Azure function to produce it. I have a blog post if you're interested in setting something like that up for yourself. [2]

[1]: https://seankilleen.com/reading-list/

[2]: https://seankilleen.com/2019/01/tutorial-reading-list-feedly...

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by reyqn »

worble wrote: post #32
therealfiona wrote: post #22

I've been meaning to get back on the RSS wagon. I ran TT-RSS some years ago and it fell apart at one time due to my lack of time to maintain it. Is TT-RSS still the go-to, or is there something else I should take a look at?

I'm a big fan of miniflux, although I'm still looking for a mobile client that ticks all my boxes

I just use the pwa, it works quite well.

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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Post by arjie »

I'm a fan of RSS too. Some people I know use substack to write. I would ideally like to use kill-the-newsletter for that but I had trouble with delivery with substack. Fortunately, these days LLMs are quite quick so I was able to whip up a little tool that does this for myself: https://github.com/roshan/superheap

It's incomplete but sufficient. LLMs drop the cost of software to near zero. I barely had to learn anything.

Re: I ditched the algorithm for RSS

#38

Post by arjie »

freetonik wrote: post #10

Apologies for promoting my project again (did this in at least 2 other threads related to RSS), but I'm weirdly proud of it: I'm curating a list of human-written blogs on my blog reader/discovery/search engine called Minifeed: https://minifeed.net/blogs/ There's an OPML export available as well: https://minifeed.net/blogs/opml.xml

Another good repo is Kagi's small web repository of Github feeds https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb
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