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As a greybeard still running Blosxom, I love seeing the resurgence on HN lately around RSS feeds. My setup: 1. https://feedhq.org/ https://feedhq.org/ for syn
by miles 9y ago
As a greybeard still running Blosxom, I love seeing the resurgence on HN lately around RSS feeds.
My setup:
1. https://feedhq.org/ https://feedhq.org/ for syncing between mobile and desktop or reading via web browser. $12/year or grab the source and host it yourself. Easily import/export OPML, so you're in charge of your subscriptions.
2. http://reederapp.com/ http://reederapp.com/ for reading on iOS and macOS
3. Inspired by Slow Feeds (recently renamed as Web Subscriber http://zoziapps.ch/web-subscriber-5-0/ http://zoziapps.ch/web-subscriber-5-0/ ), I added a new "Slow" folder with all of the high-quality, low-frequency feeds. Made my daily reading far more pleasant.
- jasonkostempski 9y agoI love seeing the resurgence too. I wish the HN site would give some more love to their RSS options. /rss is OK but I'd like to see a separate feed for everything in /lists and a feed that will allow me to monitor responses to comments, by user or by specific comment, like what /threads?id= shows, so I don't have to constantly rescan that to see if anyone has replied.
- johnchristopher 9y agoNot RSS but there's an email notification service for HN that is very nice http://hnreplies.com http://hnreplies.com
- jasonkostempski 9y agoSeems nice but, for me, a major benefit of RSS is not having to give out personal information or creating a new account. I've been activley deleting accounts anywhere I find RSS can replace it, like YouTube.
- edavis 9y agoYou might like https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ Feel free to open a Github issue with any feature requests. "RSS feed of replies to a comment" is a particularly good one. I'll definitely look into adding that.
- tpush 9y agoIf you're all in with Apple devices, News Explorer is also really nice. iCloud sync for Mac, iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, even Apple TV I think. Works really well.
- mrkgnao 9y agoErm, the link in 3. leads to http://zoziapps.ch/web-subscriber/ http://zoziapps.ch/web-subscriber/ -- which just seems like a bunch of body text with no links in it.
- 8bitsrule 9y agoI won't even bother subscribing to a podcast without an RSS feed. Although, more often than not, I still have to use a search engine to find that URL.
- talonx 9y ago+1. Sometimes the feed URL is revealed by Page->View Source
- Grumbledour 9y agoI still remember when Firefox had a feed icon displayed besides the URL if a feed was available. I never understood why they removed that feature.
- y_molodtsov 9y agoI guess because the majority of their users don't need and don't understand it.