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I just remember the overwhelm: opening up Google Reader and forgetting what I went there to do because there were so many unread things. I don’t think this is e
by andkon 9y ago
I just remember the overwhelm: opening up Google Reader and forgetting what I went there to do because there were so many unread things. I don’t think this is endemic to a protocol, but the social filter on top of content is how I find most of the things that I find useful and interesting today.
- fimdomeio 9y agoYes. This might be a problem with software implementations but it's the reason why I don't use rss anymore. The anxiety caused by "There's 500000 unread items in your feeds"
- icebraining 9y agoI always found RSS/Atom most useful for following sources (usually personal blogs and podcasts) that post infrequently, but where every post is worth reading. Like Oona Räisänen's blog: http://www.windytan.com/ http://www.windytan.com/ For sources that post a lot, it's less useful, since I can just visit every couple of days and have stuff to read. And this means one can easily keep up with the feeds.
- randomsearch 9y agoHow do you identify such sites?
- icebraining 9y agoWhat do you mean by identify? Find them? Well, every way people find sites, from websearches that hit on a good post, links from other such sites, link aggregators, etc. I believe I got that one from Hackaday.
- gunnihinn 9y agoI dislike most RSS/Atom readers for the same reason. I made my own minimal reader for my personal use [1] that only groups entries together by date and displays a feed/title URL I can click on. My browser can remember which links I've read and which I haven't. I find it works really well, it does exactly what I want. [1] http://magnusson.io/evil-feed-reader/ http://magnusson.io/evil-feed-reader/ - in case anyone is interested in what it looks like
- andkon 9y agoWhoa I really like this! It's almost like Hacker Newsletter in brevity. Is it open source?