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RSS: there's nothing better

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Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by OJFord »

coldtea wrote: post #66
matchagaucho wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even before it's demise, a lot of content publishers were only publishing headlines and abstracts via RSS, with the intent to drive clicks to hosted articles. The inability to publish ads inline RSS ultimately killed it. If and when the news bundling model re-emerges, something like RSS will gain favor again.

> The inability to publish ads inline RSS ultimately killed it. Huh? There's no such inability.

GP probably meant targeted ads, beyond just 'well if you like this feed,'...

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by robgough »

0x006A wrote: post #4

so whats a good rss reader in 2017?

Feedbin.com has been wonderful for me since the demise of google reader, and frankly it's far better. It's not free, but it's very cheap and as far as I'm concerned that's a feature -- means it's less likely to just disappear or shut down one day, and AFAIK all the source code is open source.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by fredley »

baby wrote: post #25
fredley wrote: post #8

I've been seriously considering trying to consume the web solely by RSS again. All the news sites, the few twitter accounts I actually care about, HN. HN still provides RSS, and there are ways to get it for sites that don't support it, e.g. Twitter. Everything seems to be gearing more towards deliberately occupying as much of my time as possible, algorithmically selecting content that achieves this. I want out of thi…

As an ex RSS addict I'm wondering why you think you can fix things by using RSS feeds. For me it actually takes more of my time.

Only one place to go for things, no 'endless scroll', once stuff is read it's read.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by Entangled »

The problem with RSS is that I don't want to subscribe to blogs that have only one lucky post in a decade, I want a curated list of topics on a daily/weekly fashion and for that newsletters are the best. Unfortunately email is not the best platform for delivering content so I came up with an idea to offer a news reader that consumes newsletters you can subscribe/unsubscribe at any time. It's just like an email client but just for newsletters.

Lo and behold, opened a gmail account specifically for newsletters, subscribed to my swift, kotlin, design, UX and AI newsletters and I'm now using Apple Mail to have the time of my life consuming all the content I need, delivered to my inbox daily, with no spam, no friends, no follow, no ads, no nothing.

Of course there is still the possibility to provide a nice client rich in features for the common user so the idea for a startup is still in the air.

RSS is dead, long live newsletters.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by StavrosK »

AlphaGeekZulu wrote: post #33
0x006A wrote: post #4

so whats a good rss reader in 2017?

"Feedbro" PlugIn in Firefox. For me, the browser is the natural environment for RSS reading. "Sage" did a perfect job for me in the past, but since it is not available for FF 57 yet, I switched to "Feedbro" and never regretted.

Thanks for that, it might just get me back to reading my RSS feed. Using RSSOwl isn't so great if you never open it, so the content just languishes. The browser is pretty much the natural place for RSS readers (thanks, Opera!).

Now if I could only get Feedbro to sync my read items...

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by jakub_g »

fredley wrote: post #8

I've been seriously considering trying to consume the web solely by RSS again. All the news sites, the few twitter accounts I actually care about, HN. HN still provides RSS, and there are ways to get it for sites that don't support it, e.g. Twitter. Everything seems to be gearing more towards deliberately occupying as much of my time as possible, algorithmically selecting content that achieves this. I want out of thi…

I stopped using RSS circa 2010 since RSS produces just too much content (well at least my reader did, as it was not archiving stuff until read, just like an email inbox). I was reading my RSS feeds almost as a full-time job and the unread count was only going up and up :)

TBH, it's a bit like this now for me with HN and Twitter even without RSS. "This looks interesting... (click)(open in new tab)". One week later: 300 tabs open.

Re: RSS: there's nothing better

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Post by b0rsuk »

For the websites that actually provide whole articles via RSS, what's your next step ? How do you keep and organize those articles ?

edit: I mean how users, not article authors, keep and organize full articles.

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