It's time to head back to RSS? • Hacker News Board

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by mxuribe » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:45 PM UTC

dannysu wrote: post #27

robobro wrote: post #4

Hot take: we should revive ATOM instead. RSS and ATOM are both nearly always machine generated and machine read so this may seem trivial to argue, but for those who are interesting in seeing the difference, this is a good article http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared -------- When I wrote a forum software a while back, it was trivial to not only add a feed for new threads but also for new commen…

I wrote tweets2rss[1] and use it to turn my private lists into RSS feeds. For example, I have a feed in my RSS reader for interesting people (Bill Gates, Elon Musk, etc) and a list for interesting companies. [1]: https://github.com/dannysu/tweets2rss

Hey, this seems neat; I think I'll check it out. Thanks for contributing this!

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by jpkeisala » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:47 PM UTC

splitbrain wrote: post #319

theclaw wrote: post #278

I've tried Feedly but my goodness, the corporate language is such a turn off. I just want a feed reader, I don't want to "Fuel your team's success," "Enrich articles with unique insights," "Automate your content workflows," "Reinforce your digital brand". These features may be cool and useful, but the way they're sold makes me gag. I used my ad blocker to remove the "Well done!" that appears when everything is marked…

To me inoreader.com is the perfect Google reader like feed reader. I don't get all the fuzz about feedly, there are better alternatives. just my $0.02

I switched from Feedly for inoreader. They have good iOS app as well.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by modernerd » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:51 PM UTC

ttepasse wrote: post #320

modernerd wrote: post #87

Yes. But please not RSS. At least newer initiatives like JSON Feed have maintainers who respond to requests for improvements. RSS feels like an abandoned standard. I tried to submit an improvement to the author directly to explicitly allow HTTPS URLs in light of upcoming iTunes changes to enforce HTTPS; they said by email that of course HTTPS resources are valid in their view, but they weren't prepared to actively up…

> At least newer initiatives like JSON Feed have maintainers who respond to requests for improvements. Uhm. To my knowledge none of the issues in the JSONFeed Github repository ever caused a change in the JSONFeed spec. It's like talking into a black hole. A nice and friendly black hole, granted, but still a black hole. (Completely agree on the HTTPS issue.)

They have closed issues that resulted in small changes to the spec:

https://github.com/brentsimmons/JSONFeed/issues/11

I take your point that they're not addressed at the rate that issues come in, though.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by jtanza » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:56 PM UTC

I decided to build my own RSS reader a few months back after getting into the habit of consuming news via RSS, and not really being thrilled with any of the readers out there. The source is open and can be pulled/built locally from GitHub[0] or accessed at the public instance for free[1]. It also made it to the front page of HN through a Shown HN post a while back, so at least a few people here enjoyed it (:

[0] https://github.com/jtanza/rufus

[1] http://rufus.news

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by tgraham » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:57 PM UTC

geerlingguy wrote: post #228

wyclif wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious about your comment. Why don't you use Feedly by itself? Why/how do you combine Feedly with Reeder?

Reeder works with multiple backend providers, Feedly being one of them. I do the same, have had a great experience.

Reeder's app feels less heavy than the feedly equivalent. That said, it's what you feel familiar with! I can parse 200-300 posts in a 20-30 min commute and i think the ux helps focus my attention.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by krn1p4n1c » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:58 PM UTC

seba_dos1 wrote: post #224

I'm using a self-hosted instance of CommaFeed and it's awesome. Simple, no distractions, fast and reliable.

This. Best reader I've found.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by trm42 » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

splitbrain wrote: post #319

theclaw wrote: post #278

I've tried Feedly but my goodness, the corporate language is such a turn off. I just want a feed reader, I don't want to "Fuel your team's success," "Enrich articles with unique insights," "Automate your content workflows," "Reinforce your digital brand". These features may be cool and useful, but the way they're sold makes me gag. I used my ad blocker to remove the "Well done!" that appears when everything is marked…

To me inoreader.com is the perfect Google reader like feed reader. I don't get all the fuzz about feedly, there are better alternatives. just my $0.02

Tried first The Old Reader but at some point of time switched to Inoreader for a reason I can't remember anymore but Inoreader has been really awesome all the way <3

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by tgraham » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

theclaw wrote: post #278

I've tried Feedly but my goodness, the corporate language is such a turn off. I just want a feed reader, I don't want to "Fuel your team's success," "Enrich articles with unique insights," "Automate your content workflows," "Reinforce your digital brand". These features may be cool and useful, but the way they're sold makes me gag. I used my ad blocker to remove the "Well done!" that appears when everything is marked…

Agree but use feedly as a backend and reeder as the front.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by DanHulton » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 5:07 PM UTC

noam87 wrote: post #60

I've been a (paying) user of NewsBlur ( https://newsblur.com/ ) since Google Reader shut down and haven't looked back. p.s: In HN spirit, it also happens to be one developer's side-project-turned-profitable-business, and the "social" features a totally non-intrusive, but there if you want to know what people are sharing and commenting on.

I was wondering where this would be mentioned - Newsblur is absolutely where I went as well, and I'm a happy paying customer.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by timdeneau » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 5:07 PM UTC

I want to use RSS to increment unread content badges on my bookmark icons, to show me so-and-so’s website added a new blog post since the last time I visited. Implemented into the standard bookmark browser, no reader necessary.

Is this already a thing anywhere?