I never left RSS, it is still better.
It's time to head back to RSS?
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Re: It's time to head back to RSS?
#452This article comes just days after DIGG shut down their RSS reader. Sux, I used it every day. Me and my OPML file are looking for a new home... https://digg.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000678608
I went from digg to feedly. It's almost the same experience.
Per your suggestion I checked out feedly; i like it. Thanks!
Re: It's time to head back to RSS?
#453I would argue that RSS survived because feeds are offered by default on Wordpress blogs, and Wordpress powers a significant part of online publishing. Luckily, Automattic isn’t the kind of company to pull off a Microsoft-style “Embrace, extend, extinguish” [0]
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
Re: It's time to head back to RSS?
#454I completely agree. When did RSS go out of style anyway? The other day I wanted to subscribe to an author's posts on Medium, but I couldn't find a RSS feed anywhere, so I never did. Seems like a loss for the author to me, seeing as gaining influence and credibility is probably the goal of many who write posts. It would also seem as if Medium doesn't want to add RSS as it would take control away in terms of recommendi…
> When did RSS go out of style anyway? It went away when Google killed Reader. Reader had more or less killed off the independent RSS reader market. When it got shuttered, alternatives weren't well developed and people shifted more or less entirely onto Twitter. The Twitter shift had been happening already but the shutdown kind of forced the issue.
Google shutting down Reader 'killed' RSS and made people move to Twitter? You might want to look outside the cage a bit, the world is a lot bigger. Neither Google Reader nor Twitter 'killed' RSS (a syndication protocol, not a hosted service).
I never used Google Reader nor Twitter but RSS has seen plenty of use here, from following commits to projects to simply following news sources. I currently use the News reader [1] for Nextcloud, sometimes in combination with one of the Android apps compatible with the former. Works fine, no Google nor Twitter needed, no spurious censorship, no centralised data mining.
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#455Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think HN might be the only place I read the comments. Missing the hell stew of a comments section is a feature as I see it.
Agreed. I was glad when npr.org removed their Disqus comments sections. Disqus comments on news websites tend to be very nasty and stain websites more often than not IMO. Disqus comments on local news sites are an absolute cesspool.
Funny because there was a time where Disqus comments actually improved the quality of commentary.
Re: It's time to head back to RSS?
#456The key thing to know about RSS is that most of the real news sources, those that have actual reporters who go out and find news, have RSS feeds. Reuters, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the BBC... Here's Reuters Top News.[1] Just the news, no ads, no clickbait. Reuters is useful because their RSS feed contains a readable story summary. Many RSS feeds just have a truncated sentence and a link. Both CNN [2]…
Pretty much everything has RSS feeds. Random blogs, webcomics, even major sites like YouTube. If it puts out content on a regular basis, chances are you can subscribe to it via RSS.
And for the ones that don't, there is third party services that can monitor a site for changes and create a custom RSS feed from that.
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#457Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
I went the same route, but The Old Reader at one day announced shutting down for all users that came after Google Reader's end.
They reverted this a few days later but by then I was on an alternative already (could have been tt-rss then)
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#458I'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.
Newsblur is also YC S12. And it has been worked on ever since with some cool features: you can forward your newsletters to it and turn them into RSS feeds(!) for example.
That's a really awesome feature. Thanks for sharing that.
Re: It's time to head back to RSS?
#459I never stopped using RSS !