My main complaint is that feeds then to just be the first sentence or two. So you still end up opening a browser and getting bombarded with popups and cookie banners and what not. Very tempted to try & combine this with something like FF reader mode and build a scraping & filtering layer inbetween that sends the full text to the reader.
There are RSS readers like Tiny Tiny RSS [1] which are able to do exactly that (in this case using a PHP port of Mozilla's library [2]). Does not work in 100% of cases but is a really useful thing. [1] https://tt-rss.org/ [2] https://github.com/fivefilters/readability.php
Yeah heard about that feature in ttrss. Last I looked into it I gave it a miss based on Reddit having a strong consensus that the dev is ahem unpleasant [0]
Doesn’t make the software bad I guess but I try to avoid drama like that where feasible
If you run your own NextCloud instance I highly recommend the News app as an RSS aggregator and the accompanying mobile app which I use regularly. With regards content I have a few feeds I read everything in, and a lot I just browse through. The read everything list varies but always includes ArsTechnica.
Previously I used Nextcloud News and enjoyed it, but recent versions require 64-bit PHP [1], which I didn’t have on the Raspberry Pi. Never did figure out why this requirement was imposed just for the News app.
I wish more people would just use freshrss. It is dead simple to setup with docker and it can run on the 10.88 a year racknerd blackfriday vps no problem. The pwa is quite decent and the webpage is great. Out your atuff in directories and set reasonable auto delete times so you dont end up with 20k unread items and life is good.
The firehose issue is definitely a problem with RSS, especially if all you've ever experienced is algorithmic social media feeds. It's solveable, but it does require either a very specific approach (I quickly scan my unreads in Feedbin/Reeder, save whatever I want to read in depth, and then browse saved items later), or a reasonably large suite of rules applied to your feed (takes a long time to build, takes even lon…
Isn't that a client issue, not an RSS issue per se ? Accept a lot and have some rules to filter it? That's kinda what I like about RSS...I have the power to decide what ends up in my feeds, not what some algorithm decides I should see.
Not really; definitionally an RSS feed is just a big list of everything a site publishes. Sure, the rules-based approach will work, and I assume anyone who's been using RSS for a while has built up a set of filter rules that amount to a personal algorithm for their feed. But it's a big initial investment in time and effort to set those rules up. If you subscribe to a bunch of personal blogs, you're fine. But if you sign up for, say, the NYT, the WSJ, and Bloomberg (not a crazy list) the day you set up an account on Feedbin, you'll have 200+ items by the end of the first day. Are you 100% sure you already knew every rule you want/need to filter those items? If not, are you a fast enough reader or willing to just mark as read and ignore stuff? I think a lot of people aren't, and social media has accustomed people to not thinking about stuff like this.
As a recent returnee to the world of RSS feeds, I’ve been enjoying the miniflux client [1] self hosted with docker-compose. Fast, cross-platform, not fancy. [1] https://miniflux.app/
I have been using osmo feed [0]. Rather than self hosting, it uses GitHub actions. I have my own usename.github.io/to-read linked to it, to access it from anywhere. So far I have liked this approach.
This article seems to imply that RSS users need to manually locate the RSS feeds. In all the RSS clients I've used, I just add the site by the main URL and it automatically finds the RSS feed if there is one, and this almost always works.
Ditto, that’s what Feedly does as well Additionally, the social features the OP mentions are helpful in determining which RSS feed is the right one since some sites have multiple.
>Funnily enough, the old.reddit.com view does have a to the RSS feed. Maybe that's not a coincidence! Aaron Swartz, one of the co-founders of Reddit, was also one of the developers of RSS. Most people already know his story, but for those who don't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
You can also tack ".json" to the end of most Reddit URLs to get it in JSON format which is much easier to work with when scraping content. It's hardly documented anywhere online as well but interesting that they offer both.
So the author tried RSS for a week and wrote a blog full of complaint. I've been using RSS for several years or over a decade, my first RSS Reader was Thunderbird. I have only very small complains but not backbreaking like the ones experienced by the author.
So the author tried RSS for a week and wrote a blog full of complaint. I've been using RSS for several years or over a decade, my first RSS Reader was Thunderbird. I have only very small complains but not backbreaking like the ones experienced by the author.
Complaints are subjective. I’ve known people live years with their television on the wrong aspect ratio but don’t complain.
One of Firefox's most annoying interface changes,to me at least. I used this thing all the time. Maybe there was more to it (I'm sure I could dig up the Bugzilla) but I used this feature all the time & can't imagine it was a huge maintenance burden.
There was also an option to add an RSS feed as a live-updating bookmarks folder, but clicking on the icon just rendered the XML in a human-readable form, IIRC?
That's the way it worked. It updated when you expanded the folder. We used to include a live bookmark to the PortableApps.com RSS feed in Firefox Portable.