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The View from RSS

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Re: The View from RSS

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Here's an example https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-...

It's all about licensing sadly...

It is somehow less funny today but in the 90's we would say "is there something wrong with your hands?"

A truly funny story: I wrote an rss aggregator and one day I discover some feeds had died without me noticing it. I looked at the feed, it was gone, I look at my aggregate and the headlines were all there?!?!

Since I gather a lot of feeds I couldn't help but noticed that a very large amount isn't wellformed. For example, in xml attributes the & (in urls) is suppose to be &, if you do that however many aggregators won't be able to parse it.

Every other month I wrote little bits of code to address the most annoying issues. 1) if I cant find a or etc I eventually just gather 's and take the href. 2) if I really cant find a title for the item I had it fail back on whatever is in the since I was gathering those anyway. 3) if I cant even find an I just look for the things that are suppose to go in the 4) if I cant find a proper time stamp ill try parse one out of the url 5) if the urls are relative path complete them.

What was actually going on: The feed was gone, it redirected to the home page. In an attempt to parse the "xml" it eventually resorted to gathering the url and title from the 's and build valid time stamps from the urls.

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NetNewsWire is SO good - both the macOS and iPhone apps. Real labor of love. We are very lucky to have it.

I agree. I'm just sad that, since I'll personally never upgrade to Liquid (Gl)ass, they stopped updating NetNewsWire for macOS versions before Tahoe.

I believe they just finished or are in beta to release the new version to older OS.

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Been enjoying this RSS UI recently https://newsagent.fyi/ Non-RSS feeds like bluesky as well

I have been using it for a few weeks, was never really into RSS (I quite like to be oriented to the web site I’m reading), but have found newsagent nice to use

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I agree. I'm just sad that, since I'll personally never upgrade to Liquid (Gl)ass, they stopped updating NetNewsWire for macOS versions before Tahoe.

I believe they just finished or are in beta to release the new version to older OS.

Wow, I've checked and that's true. I'm supper happy, didn't expect that. Thanks!

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NetNewsWire is SO good - both the macOS and iPhone apps. Real labor of love. We are very lucky to have it.

I agree. I'm just sad that, since I'll personally never upgrade to Liquid (Gl)ass, they stopped updating NetNewsWire for macOS versions before Tahoe.

There is a new version for Sonoma and Sequoia! I am so happy.

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I’d like to use this space to praise everyone involved in creating and keeping NetNewsWire alive. I (re)discovered RSS a few months ago via NetNewsWire, and it’s so calming and empowering to curate one’s own feed. Rumors of RSS’ death are greatly exaggerated.

RSS’ death is real - 15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare. So if you want to make news feed from news sites, you have to use parsing their html code, and ofc everybody has its own structure. JS powered sites are painful ones.

I don't know, I also only use RSS (with the exception of Reddit I think) so I would not even notice a website that a) provides content I want to get notified about and not actively visit for a reason and b) has no feed.

Re: The View from RSS

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I’d like to use this space to praise everyone involved in creating and keeping NetNewsWire alive. I (re)discovered RSS a few months ago via NetNewsWire, and it’s so calming and empowering to curate one’s own feed. Rumors of RSS’ death are greatly exaggerated.

You jogged my memory and I downloaded it, after a small detour trying to find a version that'll run on my 11YO iMac.

I have a whole collection of feeds alread, which I have no knowledge of at all. Many I've never even heard of. Is this a default thing, or was I accidentally bookmarking RSS feeds or something years ago and never knew?

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I'd like to share a preview of my RSS (&other sources) feed aggregator: https://aggly.com (designed to look better on desktops) It’s still a work in progress, so treat this as an early preview before I submit it to Show HN. Feedback and criticism are welcome.

This is cool. Personally, I'm not a fan of the feed-per-column style as I like to subscribe to personal blogs which post a handful of times per year. Maybe 100 feeds which average 2-5 posts per year. Is there a way to merge columns? But may not be the intended audience. I suggest OPML import to make it easier for people to move subscriptions. Feed discovery tools also like to integrate with feed readers, can you add…

Thanks for the feedback. OPML import is already there. I took your suggestion and currently working on merging columns. Also the api should be available shortly, it's a low hanging fruit!
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