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Re: Blog Feeds

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Post by nicbou »

silcoon wrote: post #20

I thought about a similar problems because I always find really interesting blogs (mostly on HN) but I don't have a real place to store them, so they get lost when I close the tab. I can save them in the favorites but I'm not used to check favorites regularly. Feeds are a tangent solution because they give you only the new stuff. Feeds transform blogs into social media platforms where what matter is the new fresh con…

Instapaper and Feedly work for me. Instapaper is the main thing and Feedly a thing I check occasionally for the blogs I love.

Re: Blog Feeds

#32

Post by carlosjobim »

silcoon wrote: post #20

I thought about a similar problems because I always find really interesting blogs (mostly on HN) but I don't have a real place to store them, so they get lost when I close the tab. I can save them in the favorites but I'm not used to check favorites regularly. Feeds are a tangent solution because they give you only the new stuff. Feeds transform blogs into social media platforms where what matter is the new fresh con…

> If I add the blog to my RSS reader I would only read future content.

Why? All the old articles are there as well.

Re: Blog Feeds

#33

Post by 8organicbits »

pedalpete wrote: post #14

The problem with blog feeds is the action required by the user to decide what blogs to follow, and then the desire to go to a different app to read them. But this strikes me as a problem that can be solved, and potentially already has been. If I go to a newsreeder the first time, it's empty. I have to decide what to follow. If you can get me to add a few blogs of interest, you start understanding what I want to read.…

https://feedland.com/?username=robalexdev is the closest variant I know. You can see who else subscribes to feeds that you follow, and see what other feeds they like. The current version doesn't have a recommendation engine, but you could easily build your own.

> so I'm never showing up without something new.

I like a feed I can fully consume and then move on, filling it with endless content would make it less valuable to me.

Re: Blog Feeds

#34

Post by ghilston »

silcoon wrote: post #20

I thought about a similar problems because I always find really interesting blogs (mostly on HN) but I don't have a real place to store them, so they get lost when I close the tab. I can save them in the favorites but I'm not used to check favorites regularly. Feeds are a tangent solution because they give you only the new stuff. Feeds transform blogs into social media platforms where what matter is the new fresh con…

I've tried a few solutions and have landed on just storing them in an unordered list in a markdown file

Re: Blog Feeds

#35

Post by pedalpete »

esseph wrote: post #22
pedalpete wrote: post #14

The problem with blog feeds is the action required by the user to decide what blogs to follow, and then the desire to go to a different app to read them. But this strikes me as a problem that can be solved, and potentially already has been. If I go to a newsreeder the first time, it's empty. I have to decide what to follow. If you can get me to add a few blogs of interest, you start understanding what I want to read.…

I'm just speaking for myself here... The last thing I want is another service with an algorithm. RSS by itself is devoid of that, which is an appealing feature. Does everything have to be a fucking product?????

Nobody is telling you that you have to use it.

How do you overcome the discoverability problem with RSS.

It isn't a "product", it's a solution to a problem.

Re: Blog Feeds

#36

Post by re »

> The idea is to create another page on your blog that has all the RSS feeds you're subscribed to. By keeping this public and always up to date, someone can visit your page, find someone new and follow them. Perhaps that person also has a feeds page, and the cycle continues until there is a natural and organic network of people all sharing with each other. So if you have a blog, consider making a feeds page and sharing it! If your RSS reader supports OPML file exports and imports, perhaps you can share that file as well to make it easier to share your feeds.

This is usually called a "blogroll", which has the advantage of being much less ambiguous/overloaded than "feeds".

Re: Blog Feeds

#37

Post by pedalpete »

8organicbits wrote: post #33
pedalpete wrote: post #14

The problem with blog feeds is the action required by the user to decide what blogs to follow, and then the desire to go to a different app to read them. But this strikes me as a problem that can be solved, and potentially already has been. If I go to a newsreeder the first time, it's empty. I have to decide what to follow. If you can get me to add a few blogs of interest, you start understanding what I want to read.…

https://feedland.com/?username=robalexdev is the closest variant I know. You can see who else subscribes to feeds that you follow, and see what other feeds they like. The current version doesn't have a recommendation engine, but you could easily build your own. > so I'm never showing up without something new. I like a feed I can fully consume and then move on, filling it with endless content would make it less valuab…

Yeah, there is a delicate balance between endless content and "hey, this is probably valuable to you".

Maybe you could even set "I only want to see a maximum of 5 new posts a day" or something like that.

I wonder with the right incentives if this could be run as a distributed open-source service.

Re: Blog Feeds

#38

Post by samesense »

re wrote: post #36

> The idea is to create another page on your blog that has all the RSS feeds you're subscribed to. By keeping this public and always up to date, someone can visit your page, find someone new and follow them. Perhaps that person also has a feeds page, and the cycle continues until there is a natural and organic network of people all sharing with each other. So if you have a blog, consider making a feeds page and shari…

I had a very similar idea. I’m glad someone implemented it.

Re: Blog Feeds

#39

Post by azinman2 »

silcoon wrote: post #20

I thought about a similar problems because I always find really interesting blogs (mostly on HN) but I don't have a real place to store them, so they get lost when I close the tab. I can save them in the favorites but I'm not used to check favorites regularly. Feeds are a tangent solution because they give you only the new stuff. Feeds transform blogs into social media platforms where what matter is the new fresh con…

I sometimes use reeder but its UI isn’t quite right for me. But there’a a fair amount of options out there.
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