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I’m curious if no one is interested in reading less of RSS feeds, effectively curating them and only reading them once a day. A few years ago I had over 300 fe

I’m curious if no one is interested in reading less of RSS feeds, effectively curating them and only reading them once a day. A few years ago I had over 300 feeds in Google Reader, and even migrated them to Feedly and Reeder, but eventually I ditched them to my most important 10 and built something to get any new things only once a day (won’t link here so people don’t think I’m spamming).

ScottFree 7y ago
I'm interested in something similar. I currently tame various firehoses by using regex filters in QuiteRSS. That makes switching to NNW a non-starter right now. But, both of these readers still make the assumption that I want to keep a feed reader open all day every day to check feeds and interrupt me when new ones come in. I'd like something that runs on a server and emails me a link to an rss "digest" once a week. I currently imagine that digest being a "newspaper" stream where the full content of every feed item is listed in chronological order. You can skip ahead to the next item with 'n' if you don't want to finish the item you're on. I'm sure I'll get around to building it one day.
- BrunoBernardino 7y ago
  That’s basically what I built, and I very much prefer to read that way. It’s a lot calmer. You can find the link in my website, if you’re curious. Edit: major difference there: I don’t download the content, just link to it.
  - ScottFree 7y ago
    Cool! I found it. The site's down. :(
    - BrunoBernardino 7y ago
      Hmm, which one? https://focusd.co https://focusd.co should be working
      - ScottFree 7y ago
        That's the one. "This site can’t be reached. focusd.co unexpectedly closed the connection." in chrome. It works in firefox and safari.
        BrunoBernardino 7y ago
        Oh wow, thanks for that. I’ll check it out.
        BrunoBernardino 7y ago
        So I've been debugging this and I'm not really sure what's up with that. I can reach it via Chrome, and analyzing via multiple tools, all report things are fine, except for downfor.io ( https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/focusd.co https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/focusd.co ): - https://www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime https://www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime - http://currentlydown.com/focusd.co http://currentlydown.com/focusd.co - http://downforme.org/is-focusd.co-down-today-for-everyone http://downforme.org/is-focusd.co-down-today-for-everyone - https://tools.pingdom.com/#5b3bb6faf9400000 https://tools.pingdom.com/#5b3bb6faf9400000 - https://www.ionos.com/website-checker-result https://www.ionos.com/website-checker-result - https://www.site24x7.com/check-website-availability.html https://www.site24x7.com/check-website-availability.html :/
        BrunoBernardino 7y ago
        So I got in touch with the owner of https://downfor.io https://downfor.io and he was super helpful in order to get me to discover an issue with my SSL setup in Chrome < 71 (I'm currently on 77). I got it working now, hopefully for everyone! @ScottFree please reach out to me, I'd love to pay you back somehow for making me discover this problem!
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vzaliva 7y ago
Many feeds I am subscribed are low-volume and having lots of them does not overwhelm me with information. This is the beauty of RSS.
- BrunoBernardino 7y ago
  Thanks for the clarification there, I guess that makes sense as another form of curation.

ScottFree 7y ago

I'm interested in something similar. I currently tame various firehoses by using regex filters in QuiteRSS. That makes switching to NNW a non-starter right now. But, both of these readers still make the assumption that I want to keep a feed reader open all day every day to check feeds and interrupt me when new ones come in. I'd like something that runs on a server and emails me a link to an rss "digest" once a week. I currently imagine that digest being a "newspaper" stream where the full content of every feed item is listed in chronological order. You can skip ahead to the next item with 'n' if you don't want to finish the item you're on. I'm sure I'll get around to building it one day.

BrunoBernardino 7y ago
That’s basically what I built, and I very much prefer to read that way. It’s a lot calmer. You can find the link in my website, if you’re curious. Edit: major difference there: I don’t download the content, just link to it.
- ScottFree 7y ago
  Cool! I found it. The site's down. :(
  - BrunoBernardino 7y ago
    Hmm, which one? https://focusd.co https://focusd.co should be working
    - ScottFree 7y ago
      That's the one. "This site can’t be reached. focusd.co unexpectedly closed the connection." in chrome. It works in firefox and safari.
      - BrunoBernardino 7y ago
        Oh wow, thanks for that. I’ll check it out.
      - BrunoBernardino 7y ago
        So I've been debugging this and I'm not really sure what's up with that. I can reach it via Chrome, and analyzing via multiple tools, all report things are fine, except for downfor.io ( https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/focusd.co https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/focusd.co ): - https://www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime https://www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime - http://currentlydown.com/focusd.co http://currentlydown.com/focusd.co - http://downforme.org/is-focusd.co-down-today-for-everyone http://downforme.org/is-focusd.co-down-today-for-everyone - https://tools.pingdom.com/#5b3bb6faf9400000 https://tools.pingdom.com/#5b3bb6faf9400000 - https://www.ionos.com/website-checker-result https://www.ionos.com/website-checker-result - https://www.site24x7.com/check-website-availability.html https://www.site24x7.com/check-website-availability.html :/
        BrunoBernardino 7y ago
        So I got in touch with the owner of https://downfor.io https://downfor.io and he was super helpful in order to get me to discover an issue with my SSL setup in Chrome < 71 (I'm currently on 77). I got it working now, hopefully for everyone! @ScottFree please reach out to me, I'd love to pay you back somehow for making me discover this problem!

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vzaliva 7y ago

Many feeds I am subscribed are low-volume and having lots of them does not overwhelm me with information. This is the beauty of RSS.

BrunoBernardino 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification there, I guess that makes sense as another form of curation.