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There was a time when www was just a part of the Internet and we had www search and ftp search engines. The one I used to use was called "ftpsearch" and the onl
by weinzierl 7y ago
There was a time when www was just a part of the Internet and we had www search and ftp search engines. The one I used to use was called "ftpsearch" and the only thing (besides the name) I remember is that it used to say "This server is located in Trondheim" on the front page. A quick web search turns out that it still seems to exist in some form [1]. Unfortunately it apparently doesn't really work anymore.
Maybe it's time to bring ftp search engines back.
[1] http://www.mi.uni-koeln.de/~jbe/ref/ftpsearch/ http://www.mi.uni-koeln.de/~jbe/ref/ftpsearch/
- OrgNet 7y agoFtpsearch.ntnu.no was the one I used to use
- t34543 7y agoI adored this service. I used it many, many times.
- webreac 7y agoXarchie for me
- dmix 7y agoI just hope this isn't like how Google basically killed off RSS when they killed off the best client that everyone was using (which I've still never heard a good reason why) which I believe played a role in the decline of everyone having a blog. And yes I know there's some niche support still, just as FTP will live on.
- jotm 7y agoIncredible how that happened. I used Google Reader a lot, adding any interesting blogs I would find. Now I can't find any of them again :/ I think I've got a list saved somewhere, but it was just so easy to go through Reader.
- scrollaway 7y agoI recommend https://bazqux.com/ https://bazqux.com/ -- The death of Reader sprung the life of many pre-existing RSS reader replacements.
- mhb 7y agoLooks good, but having to sign in with a third party - yuk.
- dmix 7y agoWhere was this when Reader died! Looks great. The big problem at the time was there was no good options, even a year or so after and I gave up trying. Everything was 90% of the way or too fancy for such a simple service.
- scrollaway 7y agoI found it in one of the many HN threads where alternatives were being advertised left and right just as Reader's death was being announced ;) theoldreader is another one I remember from back then.
- dmix 7y agoAh, apparently I didn't try hard enough then.
- ksec 7y ago>I believe played a role in the decline of everyone having a blog. Is that really the case though? Wordpress ( Love it or Hate it ), both .com and self hosted is still thriving. And if people are writing less blog, I think it has more to do with Social Media ( Facebook ) than RSS or Google Search / Reader.
- Kye 7y agoRSS is still alive and well. Podcasting depends on it.
- cameronbrown 7y agoDon't jinx it! Luminary and Apple Podcasts are trying to add exclusive content now.
- JoshMnem 7y agoPodcasts that only work if you buy Apple's hardware? That sounds terrible.
- JoshMnem 7y agoRSS/Atom is alive but not well. It needs more support.
- dmix 7y agoFunny, I use RSS constantly for podcasts and I never made that connection. Good call.
- syshum 7y agoI use RSS every day, I have 3 stops when I want to check on current events, my RSS Feeds, Reddit, and here...
- elliotec 7y agoPlease share your favorite RSS client
- syshum 7y agoRight now I am mainly using Feedly. However I have been wanting to selfhost more so evaluating moving to either FreshRSS or TinyRSS,
- amaccuish 7y agoWeirdly after switching between many self hosted options, including Nextcloud News which lasted the longest, I ended up putting rss2email [0] in docker and configured it to SMTP (it can also deposit them onto an IMAP server directly) articles to my address. I then have an inbox rule that puts it all into a folder and another that deletes items after 7 days. If I want to save an article, I just move it into my "Archive" folder. Why using email? I switch between phones, OSs etc and it was a bitch to find decent clients for the self hosted options on each OS. I can generally get my email everywhere, via ActiveSync on my phone, WebUI, thunderbird etc. And since I host my mail, the data never leaves my network :) It works really well, though I do sometimes feel like RMS having web pages emailed to me lol [0] https://github.com/wking/rss2email https://github.com/wking/rss2email
- s3bast0m 7y agoBazqux, basically a GoogleReader clone if Google would still develop it. Works really well on mobile as PWA. Not free, but worth 20-30$ sub a year. Not affiliated, but a happy subscriber for 5-6 years. Everybody who still misses GoogleReader should try it. https://github.com/bazqux/ https://github.com/bazqux/ https://bazqux.com/ https://bazqux.com/
- JetSpiegel 7y ago
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoRSS is not a feed to distribute content (podcasts excepted of course!), it is another way to pull you into the same ad infested ecosystem that still thrives today. Google is indeed killing reading but google reader is such an odd product to place blame on.