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Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by justonepost »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #40
dfee wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My use of RSS has fallen (very recently) so I only consume a few feeds every day. However, I both enjoy and dislike Feedly. Here’s the rundown: Pros) - advanced features like highlighting, team management - pure free offering that just works - integration with pretty much every feed reader app out there Cons: - no ability/willingness to pull full text - iOS app is honestly kind of clunky I emailed them that I’d willi…

Given that one of the blogs I follow charges for access to a full-text RSS feed, my guess is that some sites might be upset with them if they did that.

Or pretty excited depending on how they charge.

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by cbovis »

ravenstine wrote: post #20

Is there anything that can turn your email into a secure personal RSS feed? A feed reader that also includes emails would replace quite a bit of what centralized social media provides.

I recently discovered Feedbin allows you to subscribe to email newsletters, which pretty much keeps you in RSS land for anything news related.

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by LoSboccacc »

douglaswlance wrote: post #21

I'm surprised how often RSS is mentioned on Hackernews, and how infrequently some recommends Feedly. It has wonderful features, like saving articles, collection boards, team features, and popularity-based sorting options. (Full disclosure, I don't work for Feedly nor do I own any of the company. I just like the service!) http://feedly.com

yeah feedly has been my alternative since google reader died. but the issue is that even if some sources still have feeds, many sources strip feed of all the content and only give you a list of titles and links. that quite sad to witness if one lived trough the rss golden age

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by frouge »

How about implementing RSS in the browser? My ideal implementation would be to click on my special RSS bookmark folder and immediatly see how many new items there are for each site of the folder, something like "kottke.org (5)" <- special mention to a lovely blog

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by jobigoud »

ravenstine wrote: post #20

Is there anything that can turn your email into a secure personal RSS feed? A feed reader that also includes emails would replace quite a bit of what centralized social media provides.

This reminds me of the author of SuperMemo[1], which is a software for remembering things using carefully spaced repetition. (Started in 1982 and still maintained).

They pioneered "incremental reading" a technique where an article is split into pieces and ingested by the software and fed back to you in an asynchronous manner at the most appropriate time.

Then the main author apparently started to feed everything, including emails into this system, and so he would consume everything only through this channel. Replying to conversations sometimes month later depending on the algorithm. He describes a bit more the process at the bottom of [2] in the apology paragraph.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/

[2] https://www.supermemo.com/english/company/wozniak.htm

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by dewiz »

LoSboccacc wrote: post #59
originalsimba wrote: post #27

Did anyone else notice how corporations like Twitter and Facebook quietly tried to kill RSS in the past 10 years? RSS is a wonderful technology with embodies the spirit of the Internet. Facebook and Twitter are, by comparison, cancer. I often recommend WordPress to folks as an alternative for blogging, because it is free and has RSS functional out of the box.

RSS has no analytics. that's the big weakness. RSS has been stripped of content even in most other blogs, substituting it for links back to the main sites, which is a workable compromise for webmaster but not one that helps readers. yahoo pipes where a stopgap for a while, until yahoo pulled the plug. I think what's needed is an intrusive format that delivers metrics and tracking. sure it'd be another tool for contro…

Readers don’t need/want analytics though, so this is a friction between content accessibility and businesses tracking usage

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by severine »

unicornporn wrote: post #8

RSS never went away for me. Try FreshRSS[1], it's awesome. It works well on shared hosting and it runs on SQLite. TTRSS only gave me trouble. Threw all kinds of strange errors at unexpected times. I don't know how many times it died on me after an upgrade. I eventually gave up and found FreshRSS. Been running (and updating) it over a year, without a single problem. One of the best things about it is escaping the algo…

You forgot the links, here they are:

- Official website: https://freshrss.org

- Demo: https://demo.freshrss.org/

- Github: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS --

Looks great, thanks!

edit: aaargh, formatting

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by icebraining »

frouge wrote: post #65

How about implementing RSS in the browser? My ideal implementation would be to click on my special RSS bookmark folder and immediatly see how many new items there are for each site of the folder, something like "kottke.org (5)" <- special mention to a lovely blog

Firefox has had that since version 1.0 (2004): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by xd1936 »

frouge wrote: post #65

How about implementing RSS in the browser? My ideal implementation would be to click on my special RSS bookmark folder and immediatly see how many new items there are for each site of the folder, something like "kottke.org (5)" <- special mention to a lovely blog

Firefox does pretty much exactly this. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks
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