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Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

88 points by zabana 7y ago

gurustave 7y ago
Indeed! I use the FeedBro plugin for Firefox, with feeds for my various webcomics, a couple of blogs, a couple of news sites (including HN), a Forum, a couple smaller subreddits, and more recently my favorite YouTubers since Google can't get it together when it comes to notifications of new uploads by creators. I also use it at work to get notifications of when our Jenkins Builds/Jobs fail.
- dodgyb 7y ago
  FeedBro user here too, it also runs well on Chrome. I have nearly 1k subscriptions and the tab consumes less than 2Mb. Highly recommended.
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Mrat 7y ago
Actually, no. But I consider it a useful and unexpensive feature so I'll support it on my blog nevertheless.
- aurora72 7y ago
  Kudos. In 00's there was print version, a very convenient feature. They are actually needed mpre today. Not just for printers of course. For the real content, wo banners, ads and crap :
  - OGWhales 7y ago
    Trying to read some articles, especially without an adblocker, like if I'm on iOS, can be quite annoying. I've found some ways around it, but I use reddit on my phone a lot and anytime I open an article in the app I get frustrated at how horrible the experience is and wonder how many people read articles like that and find it acceptable. I also wonder how the company thinks their website isn't the worst thing to ever exist.
eps 7y ago
Yes. It's still the most convenient way to keep up with news, blogs, product updates, etc. It's also a fantastic way to keep an eye on the competition :)
ericbarnes 7y ago
Yes, reading all my subscriptions through Feedbin is part of my morning routine. So much less stressful than trying to read a social media feed with everyone sharing about whatever outrage of the day is.
karlicoss 7y ago
Yes. I don't understand how else I'm supposed to receive content without constantly rechecking everything and having to remember where I stopped previously. What is more, I've got bunch of scripts that do keyword search for topics that interest me on Reddit/Hackernews/GitHub/pinboard and generate private RSS feeds. That way I can quickly skim through them once in a while and stay up to date without having to do manual searches. P.S. if the website doesn't support RSS, you can still use one of feed generators that basically scrape the website now and then and generate the feed. I've used http://fetchrss.com http://fetchrss.com so far, there are also some open source/selfhosted alternatives like https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
deanebarker 7y ago
Yep. Inoreader. I browse 300-400 items a day through it.
- sys_64738 7y ago
  This is me too!
- cagey 7y ago
  I'm also a Inoreader user. It's one of the few services I pay for (bottom tier). I can't imagine being without an RSS-based content-monitoring/-consumption system.
- brynlewis 7y ago
  Using it right now
mindcrime 7y ago
Yep, all the time.
maxwellito 7y ago
Hell yes! Even for my podcasts. One place for everything, no algorithm to mess it up. I'll cry the day a GAFA will use their power to kill it.
Eric_WVGG 7y ago
Absolutely. Reeder for iPad ftw, and FeedWrangler for syncing (although Reeder might do that now, I haven't bothered to look).
DragonCot 7y ago
In a word, yes. I use QuiteRSS as my reader of choice for news articles. As well as monitoring feeds for some of the websites and servers that I run. The reason I like RSS is because it is focused on exactly the information I need with no distractions. No extra popups, menus, offers to subscribe to mailing lists and most of all, no adverts. All in one place in a common format that is easily parsed.
Fordec 7y ago
More than ever
dilap 7y ago
Tragically, no. After Google killed Reader, I (amazingly) couldn't find another client that didn't have some fatal flaw that didn't make it not worth the bother. I now use the dumb, low-tech solution of having a few folders of bookmarks of sites in various categories, which I'll occasionally check using "Open in Tabs". Lamentable
- aurora72 7y ago
  Who is Google? (if you see what I mean)
- mipmap04 7y ago
  At one point, I was building a service that allowed you to build digests of collections of feeds and presented the articles in a reddit-style view. Additionally, if others had the articles in their digests, it added a comment section. Is this something you would use? I had trouble gaining traction with the service and shuttered it, but I think about starting it again often.
  - dilap 7y ago
    It's an interesting idea, but probably personally I wouldn't use it. Honestly, I think momentum has shifted, mostly to twitter, w/ people either posting content directly there or linking to medium, and occasionally, personal blogs. But Twitter is flawed (if for no other reason, than because they are increasingly exercising editorial control). I look forward to whatever replaces it...
- fxj 7y ago
  I use inoreader.com and don't miss google reader. There is a free version with 150 subscriptions and you can search your feeds. Also there are apps for android and ios.
- ink_13 7y ago
  Try The Old Reader: https://www.theoldreader.com/ https://www.theoldreader.com/ It's 95% of what Google Reader used to be, your missing 5% may vary. (For me, my missing 5% is a decent mobile client, but I miss that a lot less than I expected)
sys_64738 7y ago
I use RSS daily for all things. Those webpages without an RSS feed are ones I never visit as I don't want to change my habit of 15 years.
- JohnFen 7y ago
  > Those webpages without an RSS feed I'm with you there. If I'm only stopping by a website for a one-off thing, I don't care if it has an RSS feed or not. However, sites that don't are sites that I won't be checking in with on the regular.
- hopesthoughts 7y ago
  I just use a service to create one. Also if they don't have RSS they probably have Twitter. I use queryfeed.net to get an RSS feed of their tweets.
TheCraiggers 7y ago
Yuppers.
eirvandelden 7y ago
Yes. Please don’t ever go away (even more )
gerikson 7y ago
Yes, I use Feedly.
StavrosK 7y ago
Yes, every day, for checking various websites. I realize most people prefer Twitter/Instagram for getting their updates, but RSS gives me only the things I asked for, right when there's an update.
sco1 7y ago
Yes, and will continue to use it until support for it dies or someone comes up with a better way to aggregate things I actually care about reading into a simple interface. Hopefully the latter comes first :) I was sad when Google killed Reader, but Inoreader has been a great alternative for my daily use.
donatj 7y ago
I stopped for a while after Google reader died, but a couple years ago I started feeling like I was missing things and happily picked RSS back up.
bhaak 7y ago
Of course. Podcasts are the one "hidden" usage of RSS that many people don't know about. That's actually how it should be. RSS is a "machine talks to another machine" thing. I have an IRC bot that relays RSS feeds into IRC channels: https://github.com/bhaak/cinchfeed2ircbot https://github.com/bhaak/cinchfeed2ircbot I also have a little static pages generator that fetches RSS feeds and turns them into minimalistic web pages to read through on mobile devices. I have to clean that up somewhat for putting on "Show HN" these days.
modernerd 7y ago
Yes, I consume: 1. Twitter via Twitter lists using Feedbin: https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-to-read-twitter/ https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-... 2. Email newsletters via RSS (also thanks to Feedbin): https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsletters-in-feedbin/ https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl... 3. HN via hnrss.org[†] 4. Reddit via subreddit RSS. (Just add .rss after the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang.rss https://www.reddit.com/r/golang.rss ) 5. A small selection of hand-curated blogs and friends' sites. If the firehose ever seems too overwhelming (>200 new items), I generally just skim the titles for stand-out items and then mark all as read guilt-free. [†] For example: - hnrss.org/newest?points=50 - hnrss.org/whoishiring/jobs/?q=React - hnrss.org/replies/?id=youruserid
- skinnyasianboi 7y ago
  Thanks for the hnrss.org examples!
- autogenerated 7y ago
  re: subscribing to the HN firehose on Feedbin. Has anyone else noticed that Feedbin does not seem to handle that well? Right now it says 526 unread items, whereas it in fact should rather be a few thousand items. Is there some lossy aspect to subscriptions on Feedbin, like upper limit of number of items?
  - hopesthoughts 7y ago
    I've just started using Feedbin about a month ago, and although my HN firehose feed is at like 1100 something, it definitely limits the rest of the HN feeds. The show and ask feeds are both stuck around 400 something.
- troydavis 7y ago
  I do the same thing. I subscribed to one private Twitter list in Feedbin and add/remove the relatively few people I want to read reliably.
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nakadaole 7y ago
Yes,actually RSS becomes more powerful today
alkonaut 7y ago
No.
stanski 7y ago
Just going to plug Tiny Tiny RSS here since no one else has mentioned it: https://tt-rss.org/ https://tt-rss.org/ It's a PHP-based server-side reader with lots of customizations and great Android support.
- djsumdog 7y ago
  Yep, I love TinyRSS. I use it for webcomics, blogs, even YouTube so I don't have to use their shitty web interface. Here are some dockerfiles I made: https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/TTRSS https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/TTRSS https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/TTRSSUpdater https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/TTRSS...
  - bluegreyred 7y ago
    Have you found a way to subscribe to youtube channels and view the video embedded insite ttrss? The official youtube feeds appear to be empty or just contain a URL to the video.
    - djsumdog 7y ago
      No, I just click on them or run them in mpv. I've thought about writing a plugin for TTRss where you can give it a channel name and it will add the RSS feed, plus store the channel's icon instead of the YouTube icon, but I haven't gotten around to looking at that (or seeing if there's a plugin that already does some or all of that).
    - 69er 7y ago
      Subcribe to: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=USERNAME https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=USERNAME or https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNELID https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNELI... and enable plugin af_youtube_embed
      - bluegreyred 7y ago
Fnoord 7y ago
I use self-hosted Feedbin. This ensures the profiling is not done by the third party which hosts the state of sync as a service, and it barely uses resources anyway.
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ikejix 7y ago
Yes, I use feedly for many blogs. I also have many scripts that scrape web page and generate RSS.
joemaller1 7y ago
No and I miss it. But I don’t see it as a technology issue anymore. The rise of video and podcasts have greatly reduced the signal to noise ratio. Even if we were to assume the conversations are as interesting and relevant, that content is slower to consume by orders of magnitude.
curiousfab 7y ago
Yes, using rss2email for about 100 items a day, mostly blogs and forum posts. They end up in a RSS folder and are quickly processed with your favourite MUA (mutt in my case). I make sure that any new sites I build offer RSS and / or Atom feeds.
celsoazevedo 7y ago
Yes. Moved to feedly when google reader was closed. It's useful to follow news, blogs, etc. The idea of using social media to replace RSS never worked for me, specially after platforms like Facebook started hiding content from our timelines, so I never stopped using RSS. I also listen to podcasts and that's all powered by RSS feeds.
skinnyasianboi 7y ago
Absolute. I'm using the Nextcloud News plugin which works great and keeps in sync between my devices. Actually I even wrote my own Android client. Because I couldn't find the perfect reader app for me.
bluegreyred 7y ago
Yes, I consider it my main source of internet news. Selfhosted, no additional ads except for those on the sites, no algorithm trying to keep me "in" with noisy influencer clickbait. I rarely add sites but I'm quick to remove them if they become too sensationalist/inaccurate.
Fileformat 7y ago
Yes. I use Newsblur (commercial website/app)
hpaavola 7y ago
Yes. I use feed2imap to follow rarely updated blogs.
saturn_vk 7y ago
Yes. Also, I wrote https://github.com/urandom/readeef https://github.com/urandom/readeef after google shut down reader.
irongeek 7y ago
Absolutely, saw this post via Hacker News feed. I consume Reuters and BBC news for general news and follow other blogs via feeds. Feeds are still the best and fastest way to easily stay informed. For the general news I peruse the headlines and read the things that interest me. I have had a TinyTinyRSS installation running since 2012, before that I used GoogleReader and I think it was called Bloglines.
iuguy 7y ago
Yes. I use RSS-Bridge and Huginn to automate the mixing of RSS feeds into deduplicated feeds, then put that into wallabag which regenerates an RSS feed with excerpts. It sounds a bit bass ackward, but: 1. Huginn sends me and my partner an email every day about new properties in areas we would like to live so we can better understand the market. 2. Huginn also feeds my social media posting schedule by pulling out content from Reddit and some other places, filtering and deduping. The next step is to add scoring thresholds based on votes at source. 3. I use an RSS notifier to pick up Regulatory News Service (RNS) posts from any stocks I follow. 4. I generate periodic subject-specific summaries of news using Huginn for topics from Infosec to commoddities markets and sports. Once I have the scoring system set up for the social media feed I'm going to look at integrating threat intel data into the same model using scoring to provide thresholds for digest vs immediate notification.
butz 7y ago
Yes, it is the best format to aggregate news to single reader. I use self hosted FreshRSS for that.
severine 7y ago
Yes, I still use the Firefox dynamic bookmarks with the help of an extension that reproduces the classic Firefox behavior. Livemarks: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/ https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/
derefr 7y ago
Yep, every day. I do notice that it’s getting worse, though. Many websites’ feeds are just broken these days. They’ll randomly refresh after months of inactivity with dozens of new articles from the intervening period; or they’ll re-list a slew of previously listed entries; or it’ll be entirely random whether a new entry shows up when a new item is posted on the website, such that I can only take an entry as a sort of “unread badge reminder” for the website rather than taking each RSS entry in my reader as an individual article I should read. I think some of this is the fault of bad RSS feeds being generated by bad CMS software that never gets its RSS path tested; but other parts of this are the fault of the RSS feed getting fronted by a CDN like Cloudflare, or the URL pulling the feed in through some sort of PuSH hub with non-compliant retrieval semantics, or etc. It’s gotten me to feeling that I should be writing software to synthesize my own RSS feeds from these websites using scraping, with the RSS feed itself just being an edge-triggered “no longer fresh” trigger to get the site put back into the scrape queue. Most of the sites I subscribe to have very simple linear indices available somewhere anyway, so scraping that into a feed really shouldn’t be that hard. (I remember when Dapper was trying to do this, but Dapper was trying to solve the problem in full generality for even cases where the site generates “changes” without creating new permalinked entry URLs, which is hardly ever a problem any more.)
kgwxd 7y ago
Yes. I can't even imagine using the hundreds of different ways of "subscribing" to things every site feels the need to reinvent for itself. YouTube is a perfect example, using their subscribe method when will you actually know when a subscribed channel posts a new video? Same day? Week later? When it hits a certain view count? That's not up to the user.
jamesponddotco 7y ago
Yep. I use my Feedbin[1] account to follow YouTube channels — I use Invidious's[2] RSS feature for that —, interesting Twitter users, Reddit, Hacker News and a bunch of blogs and websites. Been thinking about moving from Feedbin to a self-hosted and slightly modified version of Miniflux, though. Mostly because I got a cool domain that I want to use and like self-hosting everything. According to screen time on iOS, reading stuff from my feed is where I spend most of my time after work. [1] https://feedbin.com https://feedbin.com [2] https://www.invidio.us https://www.invidio.us
onnnon 7y ago
Yes, that's how I got here.
pomnia 7y ago
Yes. My only web interface to the www. I successfully blocked everything and everyone. VPN, filtering DNS, blacklist - you name it I have it. I live in a text world for a decade and I love it. RSS is how I got this.
FabianBeiner 7y ago
Yes. I've read about this thread in selfoss (https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss), "a multipurpose RSS reader and feed aggregation web application."
underyx 7y ago
Just configured a new RSS setup for myself! I deployed[0] Miniflux[1], and then I: - Added a couple blogs, of course - Added a bunch of GitHub releases feeds[2] - Unsubscribed from all email newsletters and added them via an email-to-RSS conversion service[3] - Subscribed to high voted HN posts via a custom made RSS feed for those[4] - Disabled all YouTube notifications to subscribe to channels or playlists via their RSS feeds[5] instead. [0]: See Kubernetes manifests at https://gitlab.com/underyx/ops/commit/fcc6b3f0bdd3cb393bc0bd56b5ce1bf20eb30d50 https://gitlab.com/underyx/ops/commit/fcc6b3f0bdd3cb393bc0bd... [1]: https://miniflux.app/ https://miniflux.app/ [2]: e.g. https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux/releases.atom https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux/releases.atom [3]: https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/ https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/ [4]: https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ [5]: using https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=foo https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=foo and https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=bar https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=bar
JohnFen 7y ago
I use RSS heavily, on a daily basis. Primarily, I use it to read the day's news from various sources. I also use it to follow podcasts.
alefteris 7y ago
Yes. I'm subscribed to 170 feeds using the Newsblur app. I started using feeds with Google Reader. When it was shutdown, I self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS for a while, hosted using a cloud provider's free plan. After some time and a server out of disk space disaster, I didn't want to bother with hosting it myself anymore. So I tried other services like Digg Reader, The Old Reader and Feedly. I finally settled on using Newsblur and I have been a subscriber for many years now. The primary reason for selecting Newsblur is the excellent offline support in the Android app. When commuting to work with metro, cellular reception is spotty. So before I go in the train, I refresh my feeds in the app, then I turn off the WIFI and read the content offline. When I get off the metro, I re-enable the WiFi for the read status to sync up. Anyone reading, please, please provide a feed for your blog, newsletter, etc. for us to follow your content. And no, posting updates to Twitter is not an alternative. I wish web browsers had better support for feeds to make them more convenient for everyone to use. Instead they seem to have given up on RSS and removed any support or made it optional through difficult to find and setup add-ons :(
- hopesthoughts 7y ago
  Well, that's what services like Query Feed are for, or any service that converts Twitter to RSS.
lokedhs 7y ago
I saw this very post from theoldreader, reading the official RSS feed from ycombinator: news.ycombinator.com/rss
simonsarris 7y ago
I don't. For me the death of RSS was a gift in disguise. I think it encouraged me to spend too much time obliging myself to read articles and keep up with sources, too much time trying to "curate" my media sources, and so on. I'm very sour on that way of using time now. Instead I use Twitter, I don't use lists or curate, and I try to liberally follow enough people so that I always see some people that are way outside my bubble, people with very different views from my own. I learn from them, interact with them, try to sympathize with them and get a feel for them. I make friends this way, too. I never made friends reading "the news" however you define it. I definitely don't want to go back to a "media diet" of stuff that I don't (or can't) interact with. I think this is a poor way of being. We lived in dialogue for thousands of years, all information we got was two-way communication, and then between the printing press and radio we switched to one-way communication, and I'm really happy that Twitter allows us to, at least a little bit, bring back the old way. Use it!
hopesthoughts 7y ago
Yep, and I probably always will, as long as it continues to exist.
xvilo 7y ago
Yes
Uninen 7y ago
I love RSS, I used to have an OPML file of hundreds of feeds (mainly blogs/ppl I follow but also various company news feeds and other news content). Don’t know when it happened but for a few years I didn’t have a RSS reader because the sw just got too unmaintained and bad (on macOS / iOS). But a few months back I finally took the time and set up a reader. Now I again get annoyed by sites that don’t offer feeds of their content. But RSS is still hands down the best eay to be notified and on top of vast amount of new content of various sites all over the Web.
eska 7y ago
Yes. Watching 20 news/tech/community sites plus torrent announcements for automated download.
knackundback 7y ago
Yeah, using NetNewsWire. The original author bought it back somewhat recently and afaik it's a complete rewrite now and open source, go ahead and check it out https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
l-o_o-l 7y ago
Yes, how else am I supposed to keep track of 100 sites?
MattPalmer1086 7y ago
Yes, daily. Reading this via Feedly.
robotron 7y ago
Yes
Meivi2 7y ago
Hell yes I try to put everything in my RSS reader. Currently I subscribed to 7110 feeds. (YouTube, SoundCloud, Twitter, Instagram, BiliBili, pixiv.net, Facebook, DevianArt, GitHub, News sites, Reddit, ... - there are no limits :D) Reader of choice: * https://www.inoreader.com https://www.inoreader.com because they support filtering of feeds (even RegEx) Unfortunately not every site offers native RSS support, that's why I use some tools to generate RSS feeds from these sites. For example: * https://docs.rsshub.app/en/ https://docs.rsshub.app/en/ (as Docker container) * http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/ http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/ (self-hosted version) * https://visualping.io/ https://visualping.io/ As soon as I have some time, I will try to convert email archives and discord channels to RSS feeds, too - saw some python projects about this :p
umyemri 7y ago
All the time. I use Feeder from the F-Droid repo on my phone. Just a few tech blogs, slashdot, hn. I've been thinking about branching out to other sources lately, interesting that this question got asked.
obarthelemy 7y ago
Yes. that's how I follow all the websites I find interesting. I haven't seen the homepage of some of those in years. Added benefit, on Android my reader simplifies the formatting and puts everything in Noght Mode.
smitty1e 7y ago
It is my hope, as an RSS junky (Feedly.com) that this post doesn't doom the protocol the way being caught enjoying features seems to lead to their demise so often these days.
jandeboevrie 7y ago
Heavily. Preferably text only, full text. I've just written about it: https://raymii.org/s/articles/Tiny-Tiny-RSS-Readability-plaintext.html https://raymii.org/s/articles/Tiny-Tiny-RSS-Readability-plai... I've got almost a thousand feeds I'm following actively.
thraxil 7y ago
Yep. I have my own web-based feed reader that I wrote when they shut down Google Reader and have used daily ever since.
webwanderings 7y ago
Yes. https://feedreader.com/online https://feedreader.com/online
peter-m80 7y ago
yes
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symgryph 7y ago
yes
jeena 7y ago
Yes, to read blogs.
bestouff 7y ago
I have several RSS feeds aggregated via my Nextcloud home instance. Works perfectly. Don't want to loose it.
edgarvaldes 7y ago
Yes, I use it for podcast all the time.
vermooten 7y ago
Yes I do, and I'm still annoyed about Google Reader.
jlelse 7y ago
Of course I still use RSS. RSS offers me the possibility to consume news in the way I want. No algorithms that think they have to decide for me what interests me and what not. No algorithms that withhold news from me. Only the feeds I have subscribed to, all news from these feeds and no advertising between the news. I'm done when I'm done and don't have to look at any more suggested articles. And I have the possibility to save articles for later reading. Miniflux is my favorite RSS reader. And I use the word RSS representatively for RSS, Atom and JSON Feed. ( Posted on https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2019/12/do-you-still-use-rss/ https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2019/12/do-you-still-use-rss/ )
brnt 7y ago
I load up a bunch of selected feeds with a embarassingly simple php script that then shows me the headlines. Easy to visit on any device. koppen.ga for anyone interested.
mike-cardwell 7y ago
Yeah. I currently gate 155 RSS feeds to email using a custom built Perl script. A sieve filter directs them to a "News" folder, which I consume using my phone and laptops IMAP clients. Some of those feeds are very busy, e.g https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss so I updated my script to allow me to assign regexes to particular feeds so I only get articles of interest. Well, they're not really all RSS. 27 of those RSS feeds are actually Twitter streams that I gated to RSS first using this application which I wrote: https://gitlab.com/mikecardwell/functwitter https://gitlab.com/mikecardwell/functwitter Oh, and 7 of them are actually just normal web pages which I converted to RSS feeds using https://fetchrss.com/ https://fetchrss.com/
officiallywise 7y ago
Yes. Feedly as my Google Reader replacement and my desktop consumption. Then Reeder on the iPad.
JeanMarcS 7y ago
Yes, with Feedly. I wished all my favorite bands had a RSS feed so I could finally ditch FB
narven 7y ago
yes
coldbootgeek 7y ago
Yes, using Feedly for many years now.
asdz 7y ago
Yes, it's free from all the funny ads even though I know I'm being tracked still.
rasz 7y ago
I switched to http://www.ighome.com http://www.ighome.com after Google shut down Homepage Feed Reader
rcarmo 7y ago
Yes, of course. Over 200 handpicked feeds, plus a few automatically generated ones. It’s sill my primary news intake.
tomjen3 7y ago
Yes. To me that questions is like asking if i still use shoes, you can theoretically survive modern life without them, but why would you?
luord 7y ago
Yes. In fact, I check hn through hnrss. I filter for posts with more than 75 points.
sonicrocketman 7y ago
I use RSS for Twitter, YouTube, Blogs, News, HN, and Reddit. It’s my main way of keeping up with goings on these days. As a plug: I run Pine.blog. A feed reader and blogging app. It’s basically a Social Network built on RSS and Blogging. If anyone is interested, I’d love feedback on it. It hasn’t gotten much HN attention in the past. https://pine.blog https://pine.blog
jadell 7y ago
Yes, as much as I can. And I click through articles to reward sites that provide one. If a site doesn't provide one, I may hit an article or two, but I'm much more likely to just get a summary from social media.
yesenadam 7y ago
Only started using it last year! (although programming since the 80s) Using RSSOwl, works well. It's been useful for blogs and youtube channels.
rexf 7y ago
Yes, I came across this while browsing theoldreader.com/ I have way too many feeds that I don't really read, but I subscribe to.
gmoore 7y ago
yes- daily - my preferred method of getting info
j0k3r 7y ago
Of course yes. Feedly to the rescue after Google Reader shut down. I even build apps to read more: - https://f43.me https://f43.me to have full content in RSS feeds - https://bandito.re https://bandito.re to have GitHub star repo’s release as feed
hummerbliss 7y ago
Yes, thats the primary way I consume web (including HN). If a website doesn't have an RSS feed (or feedly doesn't have it) then I don't care about that site.

88 points by zabana 7y ago

Indeed! I use the FeedBro plugin for Firefox, with feeds for my various webcomics, a couple of blogs, a couple of news sites (including HN), a Forum, a couple smaller subreddits, and more recently my favorite YouTubers since Google can't get it together when it comes to notifications of new uploads by creators. I also use it at work to get notifications of when our Jenkins Builds/Jobs fail.

dodgyb 7y ago
FeedBro user here too, it also runs well on Chrome. I have nearly 1k subscriptions and the tab consumes less than 2Mb. Highly recommended.

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Mrat 7y ago

Actually, no. But I consider it a useful and unexpensive feature so I'll support it on my blog nevertheless.

aurora72 7y ago
Kudos. In 00's there was print version, a very convenient feature. They are actually needed mpre today. Not just for printers of course. For the real content, wo banners, ads and crap :
- OGWhales 7y ago
  Trying to read some articles, especially without an adblocker, like if I'm on iOS, can be quite annoying. I've found some ways around it, but I use reddit on my phone a lot and anytime I open an article in the app I get frustrated at how horrible the experience is and wonder how many people read articles like that and find it acceptable. I also wonder how the company thinks their website isn't the worst thing to ever exist.

eps 7y ago

Yes. It's still the most convenient way to keep up with news, blogs, product updates, etc. It's also a fantastic way to keep an eye on the competition :)

ericbarnes 7y ago

Yes, reading all my subscriptions through Feedbin is part of my morning routine. So much less stressful than trying to read a social media feed with everyone sharing about whatever outrage of the day is.

karlicoss 7y ago

Yes. I don't understand how else I'm supposed to receive content without constantly rechecking everything and having to remember where I stopped previously. What is more, I've got bunch of scripts that do keyword search for topics that interest me on Reddit/Hackernews/GitHub/pinboard and generate private RSS feeds. That way I can quickly skim through them once in a while and stay up to date without having to do manual searches. P.S. if the website doesn't support RSS, you can still use one of feed generators that basically scrape the website now and then and generate the feed. I've used http://fetchrss.com http://fetchrss.com so far, there are also some open source/selfhosted alternatives like https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

deanebarker 7y ago

Yep. Inoreader. I browse 300-400 items a day through it.

sys_64738 7y ago
This is me too!
cagey 7y ago
I'm also a Inoreader user. It's one of the few services I pay for (bottom tier). I can't imagine being without an RSS-based content-monitoring/-consumption system.
brynlewis 7y ago
Using it right now

mindcrime 7y ago

Yep, all the time.

maxwellito 7y ago

Hell yes! Even for my podcasts. One place for everything, no algorithm to mess it up. I'll cry the day a GAFA will use their power to kill it.

Eric_WVGG 7y ago

Absolutely. Reeder for iPad ftw, and FeedWrangler for syncing (although Reeder might do that now, I haven't bothered to look).

DragonCot 7y ago

In a word, yes. I use QuiteRSS as my reader of choice for news articles. As well as monitoring feeds for some of the websites and servers that I run. The reason I like RSS is because it is focused on exactly the information I need with no distractions. No extra popups, menus, offers to subscribe to mailing lists and most of all, no adverts. All in one place in a common format that is easily parsed.

Fordec 7y ago

More than ever

dilap 7y ago

Tragically, no. After Google killed Reader, I (amazingly) couldn't find another client that didn't have some fatal flaw that didn't make it not worth the bother. I now use the dumb, low-tech solution of having a few folders of bookmarks of sites in various categories, which I'll occasionally check using "Open in Tabs". Lamentable

aurora72 7y ago
Who is Google? (if you see what I mean)
mipmap04 7y ago
At one point, I was building a service that allowed you to build digests of collections of feeds and presented the articles in a reddit-style view. Additionally, if others had the articles in their digests, it added a comment section. Is this something you would use? I had trouble gaining traction with the service and shuttered it, but I think about starting it again often.
- dilap 7y ago
  It's an interesting idea, but probably personally I wouldn't use it. Honestly, I think momentum has shifted, mostly to twitter, w/ people either posting content directly there or linking to medium, and occasionally, personal blogs. But Twitter is flawed (if for no other reason, than because they are increasingly exercising editorial control). I look forward to whatever replaces it...
fxj 7y ago
I use inoreader.com and don't miss google reader. There is a free version with 150 subscriptions and you can search your feeds. Also there are apps for android and ios.
ink_13 7y ago
Try The Old Reader: https://www.theoldreader.com/ https://www.theoldreader.com/ It's 95% of what Google Reader used to be, your missing 5% may vary. (For me, my missing 5% is a decent mobile client, but I miss that a lot less than I expected)

sys_64738 7y ago

I use RSS daily for all things. Those webpages without an RSS feed are ones I never visit as I don't want to change my habit of 15 years.

JohnFen 7y ago
> Those webpages without an RSS feed I'm with you there. If I'm only stopping by a website for a one-off thing, I don't care if it has an RSS feed or not. However, sites that don't are sites that I won't be checking in with on the regular.
hopesthoughts 7y ago
I just use a service to create one. Also if they don't have RSS they probably have Twitter. I use queryfeed.net to get an RSS feed of their tweets.

TheCraiggers 7y ago

Yuppers.

eirvandelden 7y ago

Yes. Please don’t ever go away (even more )

gerikson 7y ago

Yes, I use Feedly.

StavrosK 7y ago

Yes, every day, for checking various websites. I realize most people prefer Twitter/Instagram for getting their updates, but RSS gives me only the things I asked for, right when there's an update.

sco1 7y ago

Yes, and will continue to use it until support for it dies or someone comes up with a better way to aggregate things I actually care about reading into a simple interface. Hopefully the latter comes first :) I was sad when Google killed Reader, but Inoreader has been a great alternative for my daily use.

donatj 7y ago

I stopped for a while after Google reader died, but a couple years ago I started feeling like I was missing things and happily picked RSS back up.

bhaak 7y ago

Of course. Podcasts are the one "hidden" usage of RSS that many people don't know about. That's actually how it should be. RSS is a "machine talks to another machine" thing. I have an IRC bot that relays RSS feeds into IRC channels: https://github.com/bhaak/cinchfeed2ircbot https://github.com/bhaak/cinchfeed2ircbot I also have a little static pages generator that fetches RSS feeds and turns them into minimalistic web pages to read through on mobile devices. I have to clean that up somewhat for putting on "Show HN" these days.

modernerd 7y ago

Yes, I consume: 1. Twitter via Twitter lists using Feedbin: https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-to-read-twitter/ https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-... 2. Email newsletters via RSS (also thanks to Feedbin): https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsletters-in-feedbin/ https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl... 3. HN via hnrss.org[†] 4. Reddit via subreddit RSS. (Just add .rss after the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang.rss https://www.reddit.com/r/golang.rss ) 5. A small selection of hand-curated blogs and friends' sites. If the firehose ever seems too overwhelming (>200 new items), I generally just skim the titles for stand-out items and then mark all as read guilt-free. [†] For example: - hnrss.org/newest?points=50 - hnrss.org/whoishiring/jobs/?q=React - hnrss.org/replies/?id=youruserid

skinnyasianboi 7y ago
Thanks for the hnrss.org examples!
autogenerated 7y ago
re: subscribing to the HN firehose on Feedbin. Has anyone else noticed that Feedbin does not seem to handle that well? Right now it says 526 unread items, whereas it in fact should rather be a few thousand items. Is there some lossy aspect to subscriptions on Feedbin, like upper limit of number of items?
- hopesthoughts 7y ago
  I've just started using Feedbin about a month ago, and although my HN firehose feed is at like 1100 something, it definitely limits the rest of the HN feeds. The show and ask feeds are both stuck around 400 something.
troydavis 7y ago
I do the same thing. I subscribed to one private Twitter list in Feedbin and add/remove the relatively few people I want to read reliably.
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nakadaole 7y ago

Yes,actually RSS becomes more powerful today

alkonaut 7y ago

No.

stanski 7y ago

Just going to plug Tiny Tiny RSS here since no one else has mentioned it: https://tt-rss.org/ https://tt-rss.org/ It's a PHP-based server-side reader with lots of customizations and great Android support.

djsumdog 7y ago
Yep, I love TinyRSS. I use it for webcomics, blogs, even YouTube so I don't have to use their shitty web interface. Here are some dockerfiles I made: https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/TTRSS https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/TTRSS https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/TTRSSUpdater https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/TTRSS...
- bluegreyred 7y ago
  Have you found a way to subscribe to youtube channels and view the video embedded insite ttrss? The official youtube feeds appear to be empty or just contain a URL to the video.
  - djsumdog 7y ago
    No, I just click on them or run them in mpv. I've thought about writing a plugin for TTRss where you can give it a channel name and it will add the RSS feed, plus store the channel's icon instead of the YouTube icon, but I haven't gotten around to looking at that (or seeing if there's a plugin that already does some or all of that).
  - 69er 7y ago
    Subcribe to: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=USERNAME https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=USERNAME or https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNELID https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNELI... and enable plugin af_youtube_embed
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Fnoord 7y ago

I use self-hosted Feedbin. This ensures the profiling is not done by the third party which hosts the state of sync as a service, and it barely uses resources anyway.

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ikejix 7y ago

Yes, I use feedly for many blogs. I also have many scripts that scrape web page and generate RSS.

joemaller1 7y ago

No and I miss it. But I don’t see it as a technology issue anymore. The rise of video and podcasts have greatly reduced the signal to noise ratio. Even if we were to assume the conversations are as interesting and relevant, that content is slower to consume by orders of magnitude.

curiousfab 7y ago

Yes, using rss2email for about 100 items a day, mostly blogs and forum posts. They end up in a RSS folder and are quickly processed with your favourite MUA (mutt in my case). I make sure that any new sites I build offer RSS and / or Atom feeds.

celsoazevedo 7y ago

Yes. Moved to feedly when google reader was closed. It's useful to follow news, blogs, etc. The idea of using social media to replace RSS never worked for me, specially after platforms like Facebook started hiding content from our timelines, so I never stopped using RSS. I also listen to podcasts and that's all powered by RSS feeds.

skinnyasianboi 7y ago

Absolute. I'm using the Nextcloud News plugin which works great and keeps in sync between my devices. Actually I even wrote my own Android client. Because I couldn't find the perfect reader app for me.

bluegreyred 7y ago

Yes, I consider it my main source of internet news. Selfhosted, no additional ads except for those on the sites, no algorithm trying to keep me "in" with noisy influencer clickbait. I rarely add sites but I'm quick to remove them if they become too sensationalist/inaccurate.

Fileformat 7y ago

Yes. I use Newsblur (commercial website/app)

hpaavola 7y ago

Yes. I use feed2imap to follow rarely updated blogs.

saturn_vk 7y ago

Yes. Also, I wrote https://github.com/urandom/readeef https://github.com/urandom/readeef after google shut down reader.

irongeek 7y ago

Absolutely, saw this post via Hacker News feed. I consume Reuters and BBC news for general news and follow other blogs via feeds. Feeds are still the best and fastest way to easily stay informed. For the general news I peruse the headlines and read the things that interest me. I have had a TinyTinyRSS installation running since 2012, before that I used GoogleReader and I think it was called Bloglines.

iuguy 7y ago

Yes. I use RSS-Bridge and Huginn to automate the mixing of RSS feeds into deduplicated feeds, then put that into wallabag which regenerates an RSS feed with excerpts. It sounds a bit bass ackward, but: 1. Huginn sends me and my partner an email every day about new properties in areas we would like to live so we can better understand the market. 2. Huginn also feeds my social media posting schedule by pulling out content from Reddit and some other places, filtering and deduping. The next step is to add scoring thresholds based on votes at source. 3. I use an RSS notifier to pick up Regulatory News Service (RNS) posts from any stocks I follow. 4. I generate periodic subject-specific summaries of news using Huginn for topics from Infosec to commoddities markets and sports. Once I have the scoring system set up for the social media feed I'm going to look at integrating threat intel data into the same model using scoring to provide thresholds for digest vs immediate notification.

butz 7y ago

Yes, it is the best format to aggregate news to single reader. I use self hosted FreshRSS for that.

severine 7y ago

Yes, I still use the Firefox dynamic bookmarks with the help of an extension that reproduces the classic Firefox behavior. Livemarks: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/ https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/

derefr 7y ago

Yep, every day. I do notice that it’s getting worse, though. Many websites’ feeds are just broken these days. They’ll randomly refresh after months of inactivity with dozens of new articles from the intervening period; or they’ll re-list a slew of previously listed entries; or it’ll be entirely random whether a new entry shows up when a new item is posted on the website, such that I can only take an entry as a sort of “unread badge reminder” for the website rather than taking each RSS entry in my reader as an individual article I should read. I think some of this is the fault of bad RSS feeds being generated by bad CMS software that never gets its RSS path tested; but other parts of this are the fault of the RSS feed getting fronted by a CDN like Cloudflare, or the URL pulling the feed in through some sort of PuSH hub with non-compliant retrieval semantics, or etc. It’s gotten me to feeling that I should be writing software to synthesize my own RSS feeds from these websites using scraping, with the RSS feed itself just being an edge-triggered “no longer fresh” trigger to get the site put back into the scrape queue. Most of the sites I subscribe to have very simple linear indices available somewhere anyway, so scraping that into a feed really shouldn’t be that hard. (I remember when Dapper was trying to do this, but Dapper was trying to solve the problem in full generality for even cases where the site generates “changes” without creating new permalinked entry URLs, which is hardly ever a problem any more.)

kgwxd 7y ago

Yes. I can't even imagine using the hundreds of different ways of "subscribing" to things every site feels the need to reinvent for itself. YouTube is a perfect example, using their subscribe method when will you actually know when a subscribed channel posts a new video? Same day? Week later? When it hits a certain view count? That's not up to the user.

jamesponddotco 7y ago

Yep. I use my Feedbin[1] account to follow YouTube channels — I use Invidious's[2] RSS feature for that —, interesting Twitter users, Reddit, Hacker News and a bunch of blogs and websites. Been thinking about moving from Feedbin to a self-hosted and slightly modified version of Miniflux, though. Mostly because I got a cool domain that I want to use and like self-hosting everything. According to screen time on iOS, reading stuff from my feed is where I spend most of my time after work. [1] https://feedbin.com https://feedbin.com [2] https://www.invidio.us https://www.invidio.us

onnnon 7y ago

Yes, that's how I got here.

pomnia 7y ago

Yes. My only web interface to the www. I successfully blocked everything and everyone. VPN, filtering DNS, blacklist - you name it I have it. I live in a text world for a decade and I love it. RSS is how I got this.

FabianBeiner 7y ago

Yes. I've read about this thread in selfoss (https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss), "a multipurpose RSS reader and feed aggregation web application."

underyx 7y ago

Just configured a new RSS setup for myself! I deployed[0] Miniflux[1], and then I: - Added a couple blogs, of course - Added a bunch of GitHub releases feeds[2] - Unsubscribed from all email newsletters and added them via an email-to-RSS conversion service[3] - Subscribed to high voted HN posts via a custom made RSS feed for those[4] - Disabled all YouTube notifications to subscribe to channels or playlists via their RSS feeds[5] instead. [0]: See Kubernetes manifests at https://gitlab.com/underyx/ops/commit/fcc6b3f0bdd3cb393bc0bd56b5ce1bf20eb30d50 https://gitlab.com/underyx/ops/commit/fcc6b3f0bdd3cb393bc0bd... [1]: https://miniflux.app/ https://miniflux.app/ [2]: e.g. https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux/releases.atom https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux/releases.atom [3]: https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/ https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/ [4]: https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ [5]: using https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=foo https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=foo and https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=bar https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=bar

JohnFen 7y ago

I use RSS heavily, on a daily basis. Primarily, I use it to read the day's news from various sources. I also use it to follow podcasts.

alefteris 7y ago

Yes. I'm subscribed to 170 feeds using the Newsblur app. I started using feeds with Google Reader. When it was shutdown, I self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS for a while, hosted using a cloud provider's free plan. After some time and a server out of disk space disaster, I didn't want to bother with hosting it myself anymore. So I tried other services like Digg Reader, The Old Reader and Feedly. I finally settled on using Newsblur and I have been a subscriber for many years now. The primary reason for selecting Newsblur is the excellent offline support in the Android app. When commuting to work with metro, cellular reception is spotty. So before I go in the train, I refresh my feeds in the app, then I turn off the WIFI and read the content offline. When I get off the metro, I re-enable the WiFi for the read status to sync up. Anyone reading, please, please provide a feed for your blog, newsletter, etc. for us to follow your content. And no, posting updates to Twitter is not an alternative. I wish web browsers had better support for feeds to make them more convenient for everyone to use. Instead they seem to have given up on RSS and removed any support or made it optional through difficult to find and setup add-ons :(

hopesthoughts 7y ago
Well, that's what services like Query Feed are for, or any service that converts Twitter to RSS.

lokedhs 7y ago

I saw this very post from theoldreader, reading the official RSS feed from ycombinator: news.ycombinator.com/rss

simonsarris 7y ago

I don't. For me the death of RSS was a gift in disguise. I think it encouraged me to spend too much time obliging myself to read articles and keep up with sources, too much time trying to "curate" my media sources, and so on. I'm very sour on that way of using time now. Instead I use Twitter, I don't use lists or curate, and I try to liberally follow enough people so that I always see some people that are way outside my bubble, people with very different views from my own. I learn from them, interact with them, try to sympathize with them and get a feel for them. I make friends this way, too. I never made friends reading "the news" however you define it. I definitely don't want to go back to a "media diet" of stuff that I don't (or can't) interact with. I think this is a poor way of being. We lived in dialogue for thousands of years, all information we got was two-way communication, and then between the printing press and radio we switched to one-way communication, and I'm really happy that Twitter allows us to, at least a little bit, bring back the old way. Use it!

hopesthoughts 7y ago

Yep, and I probably always will, as long as it continues to exist.

xvilo 7y ago

Yes

Uninen 7y ago

I love RSS, I used to have an OPML file of hundreds of feeds (mainly blogs/ppl I follow but also various company news feeds and other news content). Don’t know when it happened but for a few years I didn’t have a RSS reader because the sw just got too unmaintained and bad (on macOS / iOS). But a few months back I finally took the time and set up a reader. Now I again get annoyed by sites that don’t offer feeds of their content. But RSS is still hands down the best eay to be notified and on top of vast amount of new content of various sites all over the Web.

eska 7y ago

Yes. Watching 20 news/tech/community sites plus torrent announcements for automated download.

knackundback 7y ago

Yeah, using NetNewsWire. The original author bought it back somewhat recently and afaik it's a complete rewrite now and open source, go ahead and check it out https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

l-o_o-l 7y ago

Yes, how else am I supposed to keep track of 100 sites?

MattPalmer1086 7y ago

Yes, daily. Reading this via Feedly.

robotron 7y ago

Yes

Meivi2 7y ago

Hell yes I try to put everything in my RSS reader. Currently I subscribed to 7110 feeds. (YouTube, SoundCloud, Twitter, Instagram, BiliBili, pixiv.net, Facebook, DevianArt, GitHub, News sites, Reddit, ... - there are no limits :D) Reader of choice: * https://www.inoreader.com https://www.inoreader.com because they support filtering of feeds (even RegEx) Unfortunately not every site offers native RSS support, that's why I use some tools to generate RSS feeds from these sites. For example: * https://docs.rsshub.app/en/ https://docs.rsshub.app/en/ (as Docker container) * http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/ http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/ (self-hosted version) * https://visualping.io/ https://visualping.io/ As soon as I have some time, I will try to convert email archives and discord channels to RSS feeds, too - saw some python projects about this :p

umyemri 7y ago

All the time. I use Feeder from the F-Droid repo on my phone. Just a few tech blogs, slashdot, hn. I've been thinking about branching out to other sources lately, interesting that this question got asked.

obarthelemy 7y ago

Yes. that's how I follow all the websites I find interesting. I haven't seen the homepage of some of those in years. Added benefit, on Android my reader simplifies the formatting and puts everything in Noght Mode.

smitty1e 7y ago

It is my hope, as an RSS junky (Feedly.com) that this post doesn't doom the protocol the way being caught enjoying features seems to lead to their demise so often these days.

jandeboevrie 7y ago

Heavily. Preferably text only, full text. I've just written about it: https://raymii.org/s/articles/Tiny-Tiny-RSS-Readability-plaintext.html https://raymii.org/s/articles/Tiny-Tiny-RSS-Readability-plai... I've got almost a thousand feeds I'm following actively.

thraxil 7y ago

Yep. I have my own web-based feed reader that I wrote when they shut down Google Reader and have used daily ever since.

webwanderings 7y ago

Yes. https://feedreader.com/online https://feedreader.com/online

peter-m80 7y ago

yes

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symgryph 7y ago

yes

jeena 7y ago

Yes, to read blogs.

bestouff 7y ago

I have several RSS feeds aggregated via my Nextcloud home instance. Works perfectly. Don't want to loose it.

edgarvaldes 7y ago

Yes, I use it for podcast all the time.

vermooten 7y ago

Yes I do, and I'm still annoyed about Google Reader.

jlelse 7y ago

Of course I still use RSS. RSS offers me the possibility to consume news in the way I want. No algorithms that think they have to decide for me what interests me and what not. No algorithms that withhold news from me. Only the feeds I have subscribed to, all news from these feeds and no advertising between the news. I'm done when I'm done and don't have to look at any more suggested articles. And I have the possibility to save articles for later reading. Miniflux is my favorite RSS reader. And I use the word RSS representatively for RSS, Atom and JSON Feed. ( Posted on https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2019/12/do-you-still-use-rss/ https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2019/12/do-you-still-use-rss/ )

brnt 7y ago

I load up a bunch of selected feeds with a embarassingly simple php script that then shows me the headlines. Easy to visit on any device. koppen.ga for anyone interested.

mike-cardwell 7y ago

Yeah. I currently gate 155 RSS feeds to email using a custom built Perl script. A sieve filter directs them to a "News" folder, which I consume using my phone and laptops IMAP clients. Some of those feeds are very busy, e.g https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss so I updated my script to allow me to assign regexes to particular feeds so I only get articles of interest. Well, they're not really all RSS. 27 of those RSS feeds are actually Twitter streams that I gated to RSS first using this application which I wrote: https://gitlab.com/mikecardwell/functwitter https://gitlab.com/mikecardwell/functwitter Oh, and 7 of them are actually just normal web pages which I converted to RSS feeds using https://fetchrss.com/ https://fetchrss.com/

officiallywise 7y ago

Yes. Feedly as my Google Reader replacement and my desktop consumption. Then Reeder on the iPad.

JeanMarcS 7y ago

Yes, with Feedly. I wished all my favorite bands had a RSS feed so I could finally ditch FB

narven 7y ago

yes

coldbootgeek 7y ago

Yes, using Feedly for many years now.

asdz 7y ago

Yes, it's free from all the funny ads even though I know I'm being tracked still.

rasz 7y ago

I switched to http://www.ighome.com http://www.ighome.com after Google shut down Homepage Feed Reader

rcarmo 7y ago

Yes, of course. Over 200 handpicked feeds, plus a few automatically generated ones. It’s sill my primary news intake.

tomjen3 7y ago

Yes. To me that questions is like asking if i still use shoes, you can theoretically survive modern life without them, but why would you?

luord 7y ago

Yes. In fact, I check hn through hnrss. I filter for posts with more than 75 points.

sonicrocketman 7y ago

I use RSS for Twitter, YouTube, Blogs, News, HN, and Reddit. It’s my main way of keeping up with goings on these days. As a plug: I run Pine.blog. A feed reader and blogging app. It’s basically a Social Network built on RSS and Blogging. If anyone is interested, I’d love feedback on it. It hasn’t gotten much HN attention in the past. https://pine.blog https://pine.blog

jadell 7y ago

Yes, as much as I can. And I click through articles to reward sites that provide one. If a site doesn't provide one, I may hit an article or two, but I'm much more likely to just get a summary from social media.

yesenadam 7y ago

Only started using it last year! (although programming since the 80s) Using RSSOwl, works well. It's been useful for blogs and youtube channels.

rexf 7y ago

Yes, I came across this while browsing theoldreader.com/ I have way too many feeds that I don't really read, but I subscribe to.

gmoore 7y ago

yes- daily - my preferred method of getting info

j0k3r 7y ago

Of course yes. Feedly to the rescue after Google Reader shut down. I even build apps to read more: - https://f43.me https://f43.me to have full content in RSS feeds - https://bandito.re https://bandito.re to have GitHub star repo’s release as feed

hummerbliss 7y ago

Yes, thats the primary way I consume web (including HN). If a website doesn't have an RSS feed (or feedly doesn't have it) then I don't care about that site.