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I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon

I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed. While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for that[3], so I know when I get a reply. I also have a separate feed for Ask HN[4] and Show HN[5], so I never miss anything that may interest me, even if other people do not care about it. Heck, I found this post because it showed up on my feed reader! As a system administrator, I can use RSS to keep up to date with security issues in Ubuntu Server[6], WordPress[7], and CVEs in general, but also to follow commits in SourceHut repositories[8] and releases for pieces of software I use daily, but do not have repositories for my Linux distribution. I sure as heck hope it never go away. [1] In the YouTube case, with RSS, mpv, and youtube-dl, I never even have to see their web interface. [2] https://feedbin.com/ https://feedbin.com/ [3] https://hnrss.org/replies?id=${YOURUSERNAME} https://hnrss.org/replies?id=${YOURUSERNAME} [4] https://hnrss.org/ask https://hnrss.org/ask [5] https://hnrss.org/show https://hnrss.org/show [6] https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/rss.xml https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/rss.xml [7] https://www.exploit-db.com/rss.xml https://www.exploit-db.com/rss.xml [8] https://git.sr.ht/~${USERNAME}/${REPO}/log/rss.xml https://git.sr.ht/~${USERNAME}/${REPO}/log/rss.xml

PascalW 6y ago
Thanks I'm an RSS nut too but didn't know about hnrss. Super useful to keep track of replies.
- jamesponddotco 6y ago
  Yeah, I found so many cool projects that did not get any atention on Show HN because of hnrss.org. Definetely a feature Hacker News itself should add — they do have RSS for the front page[1], though, with a volume of about 3460 articles per month. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
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prepend 6y ago
I’ve never had as peaceful a work life as back when I used yahoo pipes to organize all the RSS feeds from GitHub and Jira and others into a unified view of what’s happening in all my projects. It broke due to a fluke because a network engineer decided to try to implement a software based firewall that blocked rss files. This was such a weird error but the engineer didn’t know what rss or curl was if that tells you something. I changed jobs before fixing it and by the time I cared about such things again pipes was gone.
- cecida 6y ago
  God, Yahoo Pipes is a blast from the past. Yahoo did so many things that were new and interesting, but never seemed to be able to bring them altogether into a cohesive product.
  - prepend 6y ago
    Sometimes I think of them as Xerox Parc as they obviously had some smart people sort of tooting around on neat stuff, not worrying about money. They made so much money, until they didn’t. It’s interesting how these large organizations are able to sort of be patrons of certain activities. Other companies may have spent the surplus on hookers and coke, yahoo let engineers build stuff.
  - jrumbut 6y ago
    I remember I discovered a page of just amazing project after amazing they released with most recently abandoned and the rest following shortly thereafter. I don't think any of it was so groundbreaking it would be useful today but there were a number of wheels that would end up being reinvented between then and now.
  - amitport 6y ago
    Some parts of it were due to an Israeli startup they bought, called Dapper. Seems to me like they bought it just to take some patents and kill it. It was interesting, but does it align with Yahoo's interest? Kind of like Google buying of freebase. They made a few interesting projects on top of it and then killed those...
alsetmusic 6y ago
Reeder (Mac, iOS) is one of the first apps I install on any new device where I didn’t migrate everything with Apple’s setup assistant. It’s absolutely crucial to my digital life that I have an RSS client, as it’s the first step in my chain of tools for consuming content. I usually won’t bother bookmarking a site that has periodic updates but no RSS feed as I deem such sites not to be worth the effort.
jjav 6y ago
Same here, RSS is the center of all my internet content consumption. How else could one keep track of things? There isn't any substitute. I get HN via RSS but didn't know about the replies feed, cool! I use rss2email to turn everything into effectively a mailing list, so convenient. Very sad that craigslist broke their RSS feed a few months ago, so I can no longer shop for anything advertised there for sale.
- jamesponddotco 6y ago
  Using rss2email crossed my mind a few times since I already spend most of my day in the terminal anyway, but it always end up being left for tomorrow. I should take a look at it tomorrow.
  - Shorn 6y ago
    I run a paid email forwarding service that allows you to redirect mail sent to a burner address to be published as an RSS feed. Link in my bio if you're interested.
    - jamesponddotco 6y ago
      With very rare exceptions[1], I prefer to self-host everything I use and pay a licence fee instead. If that is an option, let me know. [1] Feedbin being one of them.
  - tentacles 6y ago
    I use https://rssby.email https://rssby.email.
- loughnane 6y ago
  I feel like I’m plugging huginn all over this thread but they have a phantomjs agent that makes it fairly straightforward to scrape a Craigslist search
tn1 6y ago
Aww man, I just wrote my own replies fetcher script in php the other day before I heard about hnrss
- 2112 6y ago
  Care to ( can you ) share what that looks like ?
  - tn1 6y ago
    Certainly. Here's the whole thing: https://pastebin.com/ZZAscpyk https://pastebin.com/ZZAscpyk I host it on a generic cPanel webhost. It's not very robust, there's no error checking, and it only grabs the first page of replies, but it's sufficient to prompt me to look at all the comments if needed. If I ever become a celebrity then I will revisit this script :-D
postit 6y ago
The day I discovered feedbin can follow twitter lists and you can use it to subscribe to mailing lists, it got me in.
2cb 6y ago
I’ve been getting back into RSS feeds so I could follow news sources and blogs of people I know without an algorithm dictating what I see like all the news apps you get these days. You just gave me some real cool resources to add. Thanks! I didn’t appreciate RSS enough back when it was a hot new thing, now in these days of the algorithmic internet it’s a blessing and a relief. I really like Mastodon as a platform for the largely same reason. It’s “neutral” with its chronological feeds and you control what you see, especially if you run an instance. Saw a post recently that sums it up nicely and could equally apply to RSS: “On Mastodon the content is the product and you’re the algorithm.”
2112 6y ago
Woah .. thanks for [3]. Who made this ? Why don't they Show HN ? It has been submitted only 3 times ( including 5 minutes ago by me ) and never had more than 8 points ... this is pretty cool stuff, some fruitful exchanges assuredly go to waste for lack of someone checking their comments from two days ago ...
kemitchell 6y ago
Another very happy Feedbin user here. I've subscribed for several years. I recently moved all my YouTube subscriptions to Feedbin. World of difference. I see what I ask for, and nothing more. Same with Twitter. I quit the platform more than a year ago, but there are just a few accounts that I actually want to keep track of. Feedbin does it seamlessly.
herodoturtle 6y ago
Damn, as someone who has only ever subscribed to RSS feeds on the odd occasion in the past, your comment here has really shone a light on just how powerful this tool can be. Thanks for sharing this insight! Is your daily driver OS also Ubuntu? How do you organise / consume your RSS feed(s)? Seems like you've really streamlined your setup to the point of it having minimal friction - I'd be keen to try emulate this.
- jamesponddotco 6y ago
  I use Ubuntu as my only operating system, yes, on both the desktop and on servers. There really is nothing special about my workflow, though, I just keep Feedbin open in the browser and check it throughout the day, acting when necessary[1]. I am currently subscribed to 182 feeds, so I spend a considerable amount of time reading and acting on what I read. The most "unusual" piece of the workflow is probably YouTube, since I watch without access their website. When a new video is posted, Feedbin notifies me and I copy the URL of the video from inside the application. I then paste that on a terminal to feed mpv or youtube-dl depending on when I want to watch it, and move on. Since I use a tilling window manager and the browser I use for day to day use is on a workspace where an empty terminal window is always open next to it, everything happens faster than it probably reads from my larger than it should description. [1] Acting means either reading an article, notifying customers, or testing and updating servers based on releases and vulnerabilities in this context.
  - herodoturtle 6y ago
    > Since I use a tilling window manager and the browser I use for day to day use is on a workspace where an empty terminal window is always open next to it, everything happens faster than it probably reads from my larger than it should description. This was the key insight I was hoping for - thanks! Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs. That's a game-changer for me. Cheers.
    - jamesponddotco 6y ago
      > This was the key insight I was hoping for - thanks! You are welcome! I separate workspaces by their purposes so to speak, so the one with qutebrowser[1] is divided in four squares, with qutebrowser, aerc[2], profanity[3], and an empty terminal window. When I need to focus on one, I just switch it to full screen with a keyboard shortcut. > Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs. mpv --ontop --no-border --on-all-workspaces --autofit=1280x720 --geometry=98%:98% "${YOUTUBE_URL}" &> /dev/null & Just to complete my previous comment, the command above gives you an YouTube video played by mpv in picture by picture mode, which should always persist on top when switching workspaces in i3wm. [1] The browser I use daily for personal things. Work stays in another browser in another workspace. [2] Command-line email client. [3] Command-line XMPP client.
RMPR 6y ago
> While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for that That's awesome, just recently started using RSS seriously (less than 6 months) I'll definitely have a look. Also for replies, I think hnreplies[0] isworth mentioning. Discovered it by interacting with the author here on HN. 0: https://www.hnreplies.com/ https://www.hnreplies.com/
lenormf 6y ago
>As a system administrator, I can use RSS to keep up to date Along the same sentiment, I've taken things further and update my RSS feeds on demand. I use a suite of tools that pull entries[1] using Newsboat[2] and send them over SMTP (with a `sendmail` tool), optionally saving the emails[3] that couldn't be sent to disk. Combined with a local server[4] relying on NewsAPI[5] that can pull news from sites that don't provide with an RSS feed (AP, RT…), it's a great decentralised and modular setup! [1] https://github.com/lenormf/newsboat-sendmail https://github.com/lenormf/newsboat-sendmail [2] https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat [3] https://github.com/lenormf/sendmail-tryqueue https://github.com/lenormf/sendmail-tryqueue [4] https://github.com/lenormf/news2rss https://github.com/lenormf/news2rss [5] https://newsapi.org/ https://newsapi.org/
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stexx 6y ago
Great collection of rss feeds. I build my own rss feed for HN, because i want only see posts which reach >500 Points in a week [1]. So i did for a few other websites: Reddit r/programming (at least 500 points / week)[2] Producthunt (at least 300 / week)[3] What I'm searching, is a rss feed where i get notified when a book author release a new Book. Unfortunately i didn't found one. [1] https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.net/hackerNews_Rss https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.n... [2] https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.net/reddit_Rss https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.n... [3] https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.net/productHunt_Rss https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.n...
- abhibansal530 6y ago
  I am also interested in something similar for other subreddits. Is this open source ?
  - stexx 6y ago
    It is: https://github.com/ste-xx/social_channel_notifier https://github.com/ste-xx/social_channel_notifier But it lacks on documentation.
robdelacruz 6y ago
Big fan of RSS. Feel free to try out my RSS reader tool: http://freerss.robdelacruz.com/ http://freerss.robdelacruz.com/ Drag/drop rearrange rss feeds in an album-like layout. Open source too.
pedro1976 6y ago
For those who require very custom, niche feeds, you might want to try rss-proxy [0] which automatically maps HTML markup to RSS feeds. [0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/ https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/
loup-vaillant 6y ago
> Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you This can't be an oversight, the feature is too obvious, too easy to implement. This has to be a deliberate choice. Does anyone know why HN made this choice?
- thesuitonym 6y ago
  I think the whole commenting system was added as an afterthought. HN is not really a discussion forum, it's a news aggregator where you can discuss posts. I think that makes it a bit more civil.
hombre_fatal 6y ago
> I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Then again, staying on top of everything is overrated. For example, knowing every time someone responded to you on HN is most likely a net negative. They're likely to just be arguing with you. Better to navigate to your comment history on HN when you feel like arguing than getting notified on each reply. This comment is a good example. You were just enjoying your Thursday and I found a bone to pick with your comment. Why would you want this pushed into your life instead of pulled into your life when you're in the mood to deal with it? ;) You of course can open your RSS reader only when you're in the mood for it. But I think there's value in the disorganization of distractions. You forgot to check NYTimes or HN replies or whatever in 2 months? It's not like you missed anything important. I found it nice to just have a list of links in a Notes.app file that I check every once in a while for leisure.
- thw0rted 6y ago
  At the risk of proving your point: why would I bother commenting if I didn't want to have a conversation? I'm either shouting into the void to hear my own figurative voice, or I think other people might actually be interested in what I have to say. I'm really grateful to the GP, because I didn't have a solution for getting notified when I have a reply here, so I mostly wound up missing them.

PascalW 6y ago

Thanks I'm an RSS nut too but didn't know about hnrss. Super useful to keep track of replies.

jamesponddotco 6y ago
Yeah, I found so many cool projects that did not get any atention on Show HN because of hnrss.org. Definetely a feature Hacker News itself should add — they do have RSS for the front page[1], though, with a volume of about 3460 articles per month. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
- deleted 6y ago
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prepend 6y ago

I’ve never had as peaceful a work life as back when I used yahoo pipes to organize all the RSS feeds from GitHub and Jira and others into a unified view of what’s happening in all my projects. It broke due to a fluke because a network engineer decided to try to implement a software based firewall that blocked rss files. This was such a weird error but the engineer didn’t know what rss or curl was if that tells you something. I changed jobs before fixing it and by the time I cared about such things again pipes was gone.

cecida 6y ago
God, Yahoo Pipes is a blast from the past. Yahoo did so many things that were new and interesting, but never seemed to be able to bring them altogether into a cohesive product.
- prepend 6y ago
  Sometimes I think of them as Xerox Parc as they obviously had some smart people sort of tooting around on neat stuff, not worrying about money. They made so much money, until they didn’t. It’s interesting how these large organizations are able to sort of be patrons of certain activities. Other companies may have spent the surplus on hookers and coke, yahoo let engineers build stuff.
- jrumbut 6y ago
  I remember I discovered a page of just amazing project after amazing they released with most recently abandoned and the rest following shortly thereafter. I don't think any of it was so groundbreaking it would be useful today but there were a number of wheels that would end up being reinvented between then and now.
- amitport 6y ago
  Some parts of it were due to an Israeli startup they bought, called Dapper. Seems to me like they bought it just to take some patents and kill it. It was interesting, but does it align with Yahoo's interest? Kind of like Google buying of freebase. They made a few interesting projects on top of it and then killed those...

alsetmusic 6y ago

Reeder (Mac, iOS) is one of the first apps I install on any new device where I didn’t migrate everything with Apple’s setup assistant. It’s absolutely crucial to my digital life that I have an RSS client, as it’s the first step in my chain of tools for consuming content. I usually won’t bother bookmarking a site that has periodic updates but no RSS feed as I deem such sites not to be worth the effort.

jjav 6y ago

Same here, RSS is the center of all my internet content consumption. How else could one keep track of things? There isn't any substitute. I get HN via RSS but didn't know about the replies feed, cool! I use rss2email to turn everything into effectively a mailing list, so convenient. Very sad that craigslist broke their RSS feed a few months ago, so I can no longer shop for anything advertised there for sale.

jamesponddotco 6y ago
Using rss2email crossed my mind a few times since I already spend most of my day in the terminal anyway, but it always end up being left for tomorrow. I should take a look at it tomorrow.
- Shorn 6y ago
  I run a paid email forwarding service that allows you to redirect mail sent to a burner address to be published as an RSS feed. Link in my bio if you're interested.
  - jamesponddotco 6y ago
    With very rare exceptions[1], I prefer to self-host everything I use and pay a licence fee instead. If that is an option, let me know. [1] Feedbin being one of them.
- tentacles 6y ago
  I use https://rssby.email https://rssby.email.
loughnane 6y ago
I feel like I’m plugging huginn all over this thread but they have a phantomjs agent that makes it fairly straightforward to scrape a Craigslist search

tn1 6y ago

Aww man, I just wrote my own replies fetcher script in php the other day before I heard about hnrss

2112 6y ago
Care to ( can you ) share what that looks like ?
- tn1 6y ago
  Certainly. Here's the whole thing: https://pastebin.com/ZZAscpyk https://pastebin.com/ZZAscpyk I host it on a generic cPanel webhost. It's not very robust, there's no error checking, and it only grabs the first page of replies, but it's sufficient to prompt me to look at all the comments if needed. If I ever become a celebrity then I will revisit this script :-D

postit 6y ago

The day I discovered feedbin can follow twitter lists and you can use it to subscribe to mailing lists, it got me in.

2cb 6y ago

I’ve been getting back into RSS feeds so I could follow news sources and blogs of people I know without an algorithm dictating what I see like all the news apps you get these days. You just gave me some real cool resources to add. Thanks! I didn’t appreciate RSS enough back when it was a hot new thing, now in these days of the algorithmic internet it’s a blessing and a relief. I really like Mastodon as a platform for the largely same reason. It’s “neutral” with its chronological feeds and you control what you see, especially if you run an instance. Saw a post recently that sums it up nicely and could equally apply to RSS: “On Mastodon the content is the product and you’re the algorithm.”

2112 6y ago

Woah .. thanks for [3]. Who made this ? Why don't they Show HN ? It has been submitted only 3 times ( including 5 minutes ago by me ) and never had more than 8 points ... this is pretty cool stuff, some fruitful exchanges assuredly go to waste for lack of someone checking their comments from two days ago ...

kemitchell 6y ago

Another very happy Feedbin user here. I've subscribed for several years. I recently moved all my YouTube subscriptions to Feedbin. World of difference. I see what I ask for, and nothing more. Same with Twitter. I quit the platform more than a year ago, but there are just a few accounts that I actually want to keep track of. Feedbin does it seamlessly.

herodoturtle 6y ago

Damn, as someone who has only ever subscribed to RSS feeds on the odd occasion in the past, your comment here has really shone a light on just how powerful this tool can be. Thanks for sharing this insight! Is your daily driver OS also Ubuntu? How do you organise / consume your RSS feed(s)? Seems like you've really streamlined your setup to the point of it having minimal friction - I'd be keen to try emulate this.

jamesponddotco 6y ago
I use Ubuntu as my only operating system, yes, on both the desktop and on servers. There really is nothing special about my workflow, though, I just keep Feedbin open in the browser and check it throughout the day, acting when necessary[1]. I am currently subscribed to 182 feeds, so I spend a considerable amount of time reading and acting on what I read. The most "unusual" piece of the workflow is probably YouTube, since I watch without access their website. When a new video is posted, Feedbin notifies me and I copy the URL of the video from inside the application. I then paste that on a terminal to feed mpv or youtube-dl depending on when I want to watch it, and move on. Since I use a tilling window manager and the browser I use for day to day use is on a workspace where an empty terminal window is always open next to it, everything happens faster than it probably reads from my larger than it should description. [1] Acting means either reading an article, notifying customers, or testing and updating servers based on releases and vulnerabilities in this context.
- herodoturtle 6y ago
  > Since I use a tilling window manager and the browser I use for day to day use is on a workspace where an empty terminal window is always open next to it, everything happens faster than it probably reads from my larger than it should description. This was the key insight I was hoping for - thanks! Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs. That's a game-changer for me. Cheers.
  - jamesponddotco 6y ago
    > This was the key insight I was hoping for - thanks! You are welcome! I separate workspaces by their purposes so to speak, so the one with qutebrowser[1] is divided in four squares, with qutebrowser, aerc[2], profanity[3], and an empty terminal window. When I need to focus on one, I just switch it to full screen with a keyboard shortcut. > Also, TIL that I can watch YT with MPV and terminal-fed URLs. mpv --ontop --no-border --on-all-workspaces --autofit=1280x720 --geometry=98%:98% "${YOUTUBE_URL}" &> /dev/null & Just to complete my previous comment, the command above gives you an YouTube video played by mpv in picture by picture mode, which should always persist on top when switching workspaces in i3wm. [1] The browser I use daily for personal things. Work stays in another browser in another workspace. [2] Command-line email client. [3] Command-line XMPP client.

RMPR 6y ago

> While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for that That's awesome, just recently started using RSS seriously (less than 6 months) I'll definitely have a look. Also for replies, I think hnreplies[0] isworth mentioning. Discovered it by interacting with the author here on HN. 0: https://www.hnreplies.com/ https://www.hnreplies.com/

lenormf 6y ago

>As a system administrator, I can use RSS to keep up to date Along the same sentiment, I've taken things further and update my RSS feeds on demand. I use a suite of tools that pull entries[1] using Newsboat[2] and send them over SMTP (with a `sendmail` tool), optionally saving the emails[3] that couldn't be sent to disk. Combined with a local server[4] relying on NewsAPI[5] that can pull news from sites that don't provide with an RSS feed (AP, RT…), it's a great decentralised and modular setup! [1] https://github.com/lenormf/newsboat-sendmail https://github.com/lenormf/newsboat-sendmail [2] https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat [3] https://github.com/lenormf/sendmail-tryqueue https://github.com/lenormf/sendmail-tryqueue [4] https://github.com/lenormf/news2rss https://github.com/lenormf/news2rss [5] https://newsapi.org/ https://newsapi.org/

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stexx 6y ago

Great collection of rss feeds. I build my own rss feed for HN, because i want only see posts which reach >500 Points in a week [1]. So i did for a few other websites: Reddit r/programming (at least 500 points / week)[2] Producthunt (at least 300 / week)[3] What I'm searching, is a rss feed where i get notified when a book author release a new Book. Unfortunately i didn't found one. [1] https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.net/hackerNews_Rss https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.n... [2] https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.net/reddit_Rss https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.n... [3] https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.net/productHunt_Rss https://us-central1-social-channel-notifier.cloudfunctions.n...

abhibansal530 6y ago
I am also interested in something similar for other subreddits. Is this open source ?
- stexx 6y ago
  It is: https://github.com/ste-xx/social_channel_notifier https://github.com/ste-xx/social_channel_notifier But it lacks on documentation.

robdelacruz 6y ago

Big fan of RSS. Feel free to try out my RSS reader tool: http://freerss.robdelacruz.com/ http://freerss.robdelacruz.com/ Drag/drop rearrange rss feeds in an album-like layout. Open source too.

pedro1976 6y ago

For those who require very custom, niche feeds, you might want to try rss-proxy [0] which automatically maps HTML markup to RSS feeds. [0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/ https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/

loup-vaillant 6y ago

> Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you This can't be an oversight, the feature is too obvious, too easy to implement. This has to be a deliberate choice. Does anyone know why HN made this choice?

thesuitonym 6y ago
I think the whole commenting system was added as an afterthought. HN is not really a discussion forum, it's a news aggregator where you can discuss posts. I think that makes it a bit more civil.

hombre_fatal 6y ago

> I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Then again, staying on top of everything is overrated. For example, knowing every time someone responded to you on HN is most likely a net negative. They're likely to just be arguing with you. Better to navigate to your comment history on HN when you feel like arguing than getting notified on each reply. This comment is a good example. You were just enjoying your Thursday and I found a bone to pick with your comment. Why would you want this pushed into your life instead of pulled into your life when you're in the mood to deal with it? ;) You of course can open your RSS reader only when you're in the mood for it. But I think there's value in the disorganization of distractions. You forgot to check NYTimes or HN replies or whatever in 2 months? It's not like you missed anything important. I found it nice to just have a list of links in a Notes.app file that I check every once in a while for leisure.

thw0rted 6y ago
At the risk of proving your point: why would I bother commenting if I didn't want to have a conversation? I'm either shouting into the void to hear my own figurative voice, or I think other people might actually be interested in what I have to say. I'm really grateful to the GP, because I didn't have a solution for getting notified when I have a reply here, so I mostly wound up missing them.