Ask HN: How do you RSS?

#1

Post by Grae » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 6:13 PM UTC

There is building momentum around a return to blogging and RSS. Perhaps we're near a tipping point.

To give another push: How do _you_ RSS? What are your preferred tools? What are the highlights of your feed these days and why? What practices and workflows bring you value? What considerations should consumers and producers of RSS content be aware of?

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

#2

Post by Grae » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 6:38 PM UTC

Personal pain point: Math seems to be a growing topic on the web and tools like MathJax are a popular tool for talking about Math. But (most? all?) RSS readers won't render MathJax. Does anyone have a simple and effective way to handle display issues like that?

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

#3

Post by gpanders » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 6:48 PM UTC

I self host Miniflux [1] and am really happy with it, although recently I have moved toward using Fraidycat [2]. I really like the way that Fraidycat groups things by author, whereas traditional RSS readers just give you a feed. This enables me to follow high-volume publishers (such as Marginal Revolution) without the anxiety of seeing the Unread count in my reader creep ever higher.

The only downside of Fraidycat for now is that you can only use it as a browser extension, so it doesn't work on mobile.

[1]: https://miniflux.app/ [2]: https://fraidyc.at/

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

#4

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 6:50 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

#5

Post by rbinv » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 6:51 PM UTC

Grae wrote: post #2

Personal pain point: Math seems to be a growing topic on the web and tools like MathJax are a popular tool for talking about Math. But (most? all?) RSS readers won't render MathJax. Does anyone have a simple and effective way to handle display issues like that?

That won't work unless you embed scripts into the RSS and run those (which kind of defeats the point of "really simple syndication" and would lead to JS-heavy monstrosities).

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

#6

Post by hprotagonist » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 6:51 PM UTC

i switched to feedly when google reader died, and carried on as normal.

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

#7

Post by mantas » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 6:52 PM UTC

Vienna RSS client for Mac does all what I need. Feeds with simple organising. Flagging interesting articles. Good enough search.

As for producers - depending how noisy your feed is, please keep it long enough to fetch several days' content. It sucks if I don't open up the client and something goes missing pushed out by newer content.

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

#8

Post by postit » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 6:53 PM UTC

Grae wrote: post #2

Personal pain point: Math seems to be a growing topic on the web and tools like MathJax are a popular tool for talking about Math. But (most? all?) RSS readers won't render MathJax. Does anyone have a simple and effective way to handle display issues like that?

There's a bookmarklet that renders Tex/LaTeX, MathML and AsciiMathML notation on pages dynamically using the MathJax.

I use it mainly with feedbin. It works most of the time

https://www.checkmyworking.com/misc/mathjax-bookmarklet/

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

#9

Post by chuckgreenman » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 6:53 PM UTC

Grae wrote: post #2

Personal pain point: Math seems to be a growing topic on the web and tools like MathJax are a popular tool for talking about Math. But (most? all?) RSS readers won't render MathJax. Does anyone have a simple and effective way to handle display issues like that?

Isn't there a way to default back to a rendered image if MathJax isn't supported?

Re: Ask HN: How do you RSS?

#10

Post by vehemenz » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 6:56 PM UTC

Grae wrote: post #2

Personal pain point: Math seems to be a growing topic on the web and tools like MathJax are a popular tool for talking about Math. But (most? all?) RSS readers won't render MathJax. Does anyone have a simple and effective way to handle display issues like that?

You could CDATA a MathJax-produced SVG, but I don't know how well that would be supported in RSS readers. I doubt accessibility extensions would work correctly either.