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Oh, I finally understand it! It is just an RSS (but with JSON instead of XML)!

Aaronn 7y ago
I guess but that already exists https://jsonfeed.org/version/1 https://jsonfeed.org/version/1
Semiapies 7y ago
As far as I can tell, that's it. It's a reinvention of RSS without any notable advantages and no compatibility with existing systems. So, a reinvented wheel that doesn't work on roads.
- semiotagonal 7y ago
  It's like re-inventing the wheel after everyone stopped using the wheel. It might meet with some success. To people who don't know about RSS, it's a new thing.
  - CharlesW 7y ago
    > It's like re-inventing the wheel after everyone stopped using the wheel. 32% of Americans use RSS every month just for podcasts alone.
    - core-questions 7y ago
      We can all thank Adam Curry for that!
  - Semiapies 7y ago
    I think everybody using Feedbin, Feedly, Newsblur, The Old Reader, Inoreader, etc. would wonder who your "everybody" really is.
    - semiotagonal 7y ago
      Everybody would wonder who they are as well. :)
mc3 7y ago
I think this is more focused than RSS. Doing the same with an RSS reader would be fiddly and sort of out of it's use case. If you want regular polling (every 15s say) maybe your RSS reader can do that but it isn't natural. There is something to be said for things being similar but not the same. This app can grow features in the direction of alerting, whereas an RSS reader wouldn't be growing in that direction without becoming bloatware because it's main job is to catch you up on reading material. I can see myself using it, and it has been something I have consider building myself - although I had a different angle - an API for a person so you can send me a message (if I trust you... maybe I give each friend a different token!) and we can avoid using email or a proprietary chat alltogether. Such a service could work in tandem with this app. Based on that you could make a distributed "facebook" of sorts. Once the iPhone app of this come out I can see myself setting up a little nodejs server and aggregating some stuff to send down. Weather, email, SMS, maybe some favourite google searches (when they change) or hn.algolia.com searches.
- Andrew_nenakhov 7y ago
  Thing is, you don't want regular polling every 15s! It's 5760 requests per day! For EVERY SOURCE! Trust me, your device battery won't like it. Won't like it at all. > although I had a different angle - an API for a person so you can send me a message ... and we can avoid using email or a proprietary chat alltogether If you want to exchange messages avoiding email or proprietary chats, you have a wide variety of open chat protocols and free and open source chat applications to choose from. XMPP, Matrix, IRC, mastodon, rocketchat, mattermost, ... dozens of them!
nilsandrey 7y ago
That can be a point of view but remember RSS is a fixed format and JSON not.
- shantly 7y ago
  > RSS is a fixed format and JSON not JSON isn't, but REFL.ME+JSON appears to be.

I guess but that already exists https://jsonfeed.org/version/1 https://jsonfeed.org/version/1

As far as I can tell, that's it. It's a reinvention of RSS without any notable advantages and no compatibility with existing systems. So, a reinvented wheel that doesn't work on roads.

semiotagonal 7y ago
It's like re-inventing the wheel after everyone stopped using the wheel. It might meet with some success. To people who don't know about RSS, it's a new thing.
- CharlesW 7y ago
  > It's like re-inventing the wheel after everyone stopped using the wheel. 32% of Americans use RSS every month just for podcasts alone.
  - core-questions 7y ago
    We can all thank Adam Curry for that!
- Semiapies 7y ago
  I think everybody using Feedbin, Feedly, Newsblur, The Old Reader, Inoreader, etc. would wonder who your "everybody" really is.
  - semiotagonal 7y ago
    Everybody would wonder who they are as well. :)

mc3 7y ago

I think this is more focused than RSS. Doing the same with an RSS reader would be fiddly and sort of out of it's use case. If you want regular polling (every 15s say) maybe your RSS reader can do that but it isn't natural. There is something to be said for things being similar but not the same. This app can grow features in the direction of alerting, whereas an RSS reader wouldn't be growing in that direction without becoming bloatware because it's main job is to catch you up on reading material. I can see myself using it, and it has been something I have consider building myself - although I had a different angle - an API for a person so you can send me a message (if I trust you... maybe I give each friend a different token!) and we can avoid using email or a proprietary chat alltogether. Such a service could work in tandem with this app. Based on that you could make a distributed "facebook" of sorts. Once the iPhone app of this come out I can see myself setting up a little nodejs server and aggregating some stuff to send down. Weather, email, SMS, maybe some favourite google searches (when they change) or hn.algolia.com searches.

Andrew_nenakhov 7y ago
Thing is, you don't want regular polling every 15s! It's 5760 requests per day! For EVERY SOURCE! Trust me, your device battery won't like it. Won't like it at all. > although I had a different angle - an API for a person so you can send me a message ... and we can avoid using email or a proprietary chat alltogether If you want to exchange messages avoiding email or proprietary chats, you have a wide variety of open chat protocols and free and open source chat applications to choose from. XMPP, Matrix, IRC, mastodon, rocketchat, mattermost, ... dozens of them!

nilsandrey 7y ago

That can be a point of view but remember RSS is a fixed format and JSON not.

shantly 7y ago
> RSS is a fixed format and JSON not JSON isn't, but REFL.ME+JSON appears to be.