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I haven’t used RSS in a long long while but one problem I had with it was filtering. This was especially true where a site had frequent updates, say a news site

I haven’t used RSS in a long long while but one problem I had with it was filtering. This was especially true where a site had frequent updates, say a news site, but there was no way to filter on the feed by topic unless the site provided custom feeds for each topic/category/tag. Has this gotten better? From skimming around it looks like this still might be a limitation.

sp332 6y ago
NewsBlur has a filtering feature, but I don't see a way to tweak it beyond mashing thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons and hoping it gets the idea. Might be worth a shot, though, it's definitely better than nothing.
- Groxx 6y ago
  If the feed contains tags, you can do this per tag. But sadly there's nothing inferred / you can't do it based on other content. There are definitely some feeds I follow where I'd immediately filter out an author or three, but alas.
  - sp332 6y ago
    The "intelligence trainer" lets you select authors you do or don't want to follow.
    - Groxx 6y ago
      If they are in the metadata. If they aren't, it can only "train" on the feed as a whole.
guybedo 6y ago
https://aktu.io https://aktu.io is a news aggregator / rss reader that does just that. It automatically categorizes your feed items (politics, science, tech, etc...), extract topics and aggregates your feed items to news stories. You can then browse/filter your feeds by categories/topics.
tomjen3 6y ago
That seems like a feature that should be built into RSS readers, not the feeds themselves so that is where I would go looking for it.