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Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader
- atum47 5y agoDo people still uses rss? I'm on my way to put my old blog back on air and I was think about providing a json view, but also a rss one (since the implementation seems very simple). I'm just curious if people still uses it
- 1123581321 5y agoYou’ll get a skewed set of answers here, but definitely. I ask for RSS every time a site is missing it. Email-to-RSS sometimes works as a substitute.
- l0b0 5y agoAbsolutely! I follow some 100+ feeds in Liferea. Basically any site or part of a site which has interesting content with low or intermediate frequency (Hacker News and the like would just flood the "inbox"). It's an excellent way to look through dozens of entries quickly for the good stuff.
- kzrdude 5y agoFor podcasts, yes. Blogs, no. Aggregators like hacker news replaced it for me.
- DoomHotel 5y agoI follow Hacker News using its RSS feed.
- sgtfrankieboy 5y agoI started using it recently. Following a few blogs that interest me using Feedly. Got a browser extension so I know whenever a new article gets posted.
- detaro 5y agoSure. (well, quite often it's actually Atom, since people use "RSS" to mean either)
- mjgs 5y agoYes - I think it tends to be used by people that are into creating online content, it’s the best way to get content delivered to you online. Though there’s Twitter and Newsletters too, which are great, RSS is still hugely useful.
- OJFord 5y agoI'd like to again, but I stopped because I didn't have a good (read: worked in the way I wanted) client, and not everything served it anyway. I paid for Feedbin for quite a while, but it had too many issues/missing features. I replaced it with nothing, unfortunately. (I think at the time it was one of those Sod it, I'll write my own moments, and of course never got around to it.) Admittedly mostly as a result of no longer using it, but currently the only source I read regularly (by email) is Levine's Money Stuff. If I could get his column and some YouTube 'subscriptions' by RSS, I'd be in.
- drdeca 5y agoYoutube channels do have RSS feeds, so if you want, you can subscribe to all the rss feeds for all the channels you follow. I don't think there's an rss feed for "a selection of new things that youtube expects that you would actually watch, from the channels you follow, which youtube would list on the main page or whatever for you", so you can get exactly the same things, but if you just want to subscribe-through-rss to all the channels you subscribe-through-youtube , you can. You can also subscribe to a youtube playlist, if a channel has a playlist you are interested in, but which is only a minority of their videos.
- drdeca 5y agotypo : the "so you can get exactly the same things," should read "so you can't get exactly the same things," (as in, can't get exactly the same (distribution of) things you would if you were to just view the homepage)
- OJFord 5y agoI was aware of that, but I thought it was removed recently-ish (last couple of years)? Will have to check that, that'd be great.
- dlkmp 5y agoStill works perfectly. Even if they'd stop, there are projects like RSS Hub to solve this problem.
- smegger001 5y agoYes, I use it. I don't want to manually check every blog web comic podcast etc i fallow, everyday and see if there was a update. If I tried i would probably end up missing some, so I grab the rss feed and have it delivered to me. And it doesn't clutter my email inbox like a newsletter or email notification will. The only reason rss isn't more widespread is, it is to useful for consumers and hard to monetize for FAANG's
- dmhmr 5y agoI use it to direct certain topics to my Discord server.
- noman-land 5y agoI never stopped! Still going strong. Everything from blogs to news to podcasts and more. All RSS.
- trickstra 5y agoMore and more, now that every news and social media platform is doing some "personalization", which means I won't see all the news on the website. Even youtube rss feeds are better than the subscribe and bell buttons.
- unsignedchar 5y agoDo you have a recommendation for an rss reader that works with youtube?
- dlkmp 5y agoWhat do you mean? RSS is standardized, every RSS reader should be able to handle youtube feeds. Just substitute the channel id and paste it in your reader of choice: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UChqrDOwARrxdJF-ykAptc7w https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UChqrDOw...
- creddit 5y agoTo add to the pile on of support for RSS, I use it daily! I use the Reeder App across my Mac, iPhone and iPad.
- raspyberr 5y agoI love RSS/Atom. Completely stopped using the main social medias. With RSS, you are your own newsfeed algorithm. I've been using Newsblur but I will switch away soon. It's too heavy and I'd prefer to self-host.
- c1c2c3 5y agoCan I recommend you take a look at Miniflux (https://miniflux.app/ https://miniflux.app/)? I'm a customer and really like it - it is possible to self host.
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- dlkmp 5y agoI use Tiny Tiny RSS as a self-hosted solution, very quick to setup and offers lot's of features. The UI is a bit hard to use from a smartphone, though, at least with my font sizes.
- dsr_ 5y agoThere's at least one Android reader and a mobile-optimized view available: https://github.com/mboinet/ttrss-mobile https://github.com/mboinet/ttrss-mobile
- rakoo 5y agoI used to have a "standard" RSS reader a long time ago but then got swamped in the hundreds of posts I didn't (have time to) read. It was such a big source of FOMO I had to completely stop using it. Now i'm happy using fraidycat (https://fraidyc.at/ https://fraidyc.at/) because it behaves the way I want: a very active source will only overshadow itself. Instead I have a list of all sources and I can have a quick look of the latest article of each source on the same screen. When I feel a source is too noisy it means I'm not interested in every single post, so I push it down to lower levels of importance, who live in a different tab. I know stuff happens there but I'm rarely interested so it's ok if I check only once a week for example.
- itsjloh 5y agoYep! I use Miniflux as my reader, works great. Easiest way to keep track of all the indie blogs out there.
- karlicoss 5y agoI don't understand how else people keep up with the information. Manually rechecking the blogs they like?
- d0mine 5y agoperhaps, people read a link aggregator such HN/reddit.
- AndrewDucker 5y agoBut they don't track the blogs I'm interested in.
- axiolite 5y agoI started using RSS in a big way when I got my first smartphone.* Navigating websites using your thumb is slow and cumbersome. Not to mention just clicking a bunch of bookmarks on your phone takes ages longer than on a desktop. But with RSS, I have an eBook view of what's new on any websites I'm interested in. Nothing else in the way, no navigation bars, no waiting for pages to load, no waiting for a cell signal, etc. Scroll up down through a list of recent updates, click to read, scroll through if interesting, swipe left/right to switch to the next/prior entry, or go back to the index. Done. Reading the day's updates happens in record time. With knock-on benefits that it's easier to follow small sites with infrequent updates... They come to me, I don't have to keep trying to check for updates from them. * I had some nice PDAs back in the day, but WiFi only became a thing right about when PDAs went out of fashion, so I don't know if there were any good RSS readers back then. It wasn't until smartphones that it became a problem I was motivated to solve.
- BossHogg 5y agoI do too. How else to keep up with 655 feeds?
- FalconSensei 5y agoFor following blogs, it's either RSS (I use Feedly) or emails. Emails are less convenient to browse - RSS I can just see the title and description along with the featured image - and many blogs don't offer email subscriptions. So... RSS it is!
- rado 5y agoYes, it’s my main source of news.
- reidrac 5y agoI stopped using RSS partially because the blogs I was reading stopped writing and because HN started filling that gap. I'm only on Twitter (and trying to reduce its use), so I'm trying to go back to RSS, but I'm struggling to find content. I wonder if people here know of any resource to discover blogs. Inoreader suggests some blogs and has search functionality, but I found it a bit lacking on that camp.
- dlkmp 5y agoI've only started using RSS for a couple weeks and have just added blogs organically as I found them mostly from HN and lobste.rs. You don't need a big list of blogs to start with to profit from RSS, just add the HN feed and go from there. And oh, I also migrated my youtube subscriptions to RSS, it's much more convenient imho.
- reidrac 5y agoYep, I started doing that, but I stopped. Generally I find a good number of the blogs hitting HN's frontpage aren't worth following because that post on HN is one off; either because their blog focus on a topic I'm not interested or because the post was "engineered" to get to the front page. What I can't really track with RSS is HN! Too many updates per day :)
- teitoklien 5y agohttps://bilbof.com/blogosphere https://bilbof.com/blogosphere Use this site to find active rss blogs , I got this link from a HN post a few weeks ago , I’ve had quite good luck finding great blogs on topics I liked from this finder .
- antpls 5y agoSo far RSS is unmatched for me. I started with Netvibes when I was a teenager, then I stopped for some years, then I installed Aggregator on Android a to be able to follow RSS feeds again. I'm looking for a smarter RSS reader on Android than the existing ones. Features I'm looking for : - automatic deduplication of items - smart labels powered by ML - My own grouping based custom filters AND smart labels - easy access to discussions that might exist on social website for a given link (twitter, HN, reddit) That might be the usecase that would get me started with Android development, but I have not decided if a webapp would be better. Also every news businesses and news distributors on Earth (including Google) are trying to kill RSS to make more money, I don't see who could stop them.
- 411111111111111 5y ago> That might be the usecase that would get me started with Android development, but I have not decided if a webapp would be better. You might already know this but that's actually a very fluid barrier. If you use the angular cli to start a project you can - with one command (ng add @angular/pwa) make it installable on devices after you've deployed it on an https server.
- hiyer 5y agoYou can try feedly[0] as it has at least some of the above — smart labels, custom grouping and easy access to discussions (on hn at least - I don't use the others). There's also a premium version which may support some of the other features you've mentioned. 0. https://feedly.com/ https://feedly.com/
- antpls 5y agoI tried few years ago, and it didn't fit my needs. Just tried again : - must sign up to use the application - impossible to select several items to mark them as read/unread (possible in Aggregator, and I can't live without it) - the grouping is based on the feeds (same as Aggregator), but I'm looking for label grouping ala Gmail - must pay for the search/label feature - in text only mode, the items are hard to read. I like Aggregator's way of seeing the source's favicon next to the items - ads RSS is free open standard, it's not supposed to change and does not require maintenance. Aggregator's last update was almost 3 years ago and the app still fully works as intended today. I'm not looking for an app that is updated every week for new features. I tried all the free Android RSS readers under the sun, and none has the perfect combo of features I would like.
- thefranke 5y agoNot just that, there is an awesome project to scrape webpages that do not feature RSS: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge You can replace most of your social media feeds. I'm compiling a list of URLs you can use to replace existing services with RSS: https://gist.github.com/thefranke/63853a6f8c499dc97bc17838f6cedcc2 https://gist.github.com/thefranke/63853a6f8c499dc97bc17838f6...
- stunt 5y agoMy main source including for the HN.
- dsr_ 5y agoThe more technical your audience, the more likely they are to prefer atom or rss.
- slightwinder 5y agoYes, people still use it, but it's dying and culture is stagnating. There is no movement forward, no adapting of new features. Only the commercial Feedreaders have a little bit of improvment, but kinda hard to justify the prices when you only use it for private purpose. It's kinda strange how the great cultures of technology always stagnate at some point and start dying, while the swallow cultures live on and just change names and faces.
- linasj 5y agoYes, I do :)
- mjgs 5y agoAwesome project!
- encryptluks2 5y agoKinda cool, but I'd much prefer to utilize RSS locally and if you want a web interface Miniflux looks pretty nice and easy.
- mhitza 5y agoIt's cool, I have a similar private repo setup which I was intending to open up publicly tomorrow :))
- cheeaun 5y agoVery similar project, also available as a GitHub Action: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/feedsfetcher https://github.com/marketplace/actions/feedsfetcher
- osmoscraft 5y agoDeveloper here. I super appreciate the support. Some context: - I'm a big fan of RSS and there is a thriving community behind. Just check out this list: https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS - I'm also a firm believer of web as a platform, a distributed document database, and an open library of knowledge, as opposed to a "compile target" for cryptic JavaScript apps that take control and freedom away from users. Jim Nielsen has a timely critique: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/web-languages-as-compile-targets/ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/web-languages-as-compile-t... - The bigger picture behind the osmos project is to create an IDE for personal knowledge management. On the surface: 1. I read my rss with osmos::feed. 2. I capture reference links from the feed with osmos::memo. 3. I digest the knowledge and connect them into notes with osmos::note. - All of them are done with plaintext (some sprinkle of markdown), remote hosted on GitHub, so they are easy to run NLP and ML against. Potentially with GitHub actions, or locally with some bot, with a cloned repo. - In the long term, I was hoping to create a "positive feedback loop". Use ML to extract patterns from my notes, make connections for me, and recommend interesting reading in the osmos::feed. On the other end, osmos::feed can use NLP to detect how each article in the feed might connect to ideas from osmos::note and make note-taking even easier. - The parent project (https://osmoscraft.org https://osmoscraft.org) is still in super early stage. Would love to let the community give it a spin while I keep iterating. - Thanks again for the ♥
- low_tech_punk 5y agoReminds me of https://zettelkasten.de/ https://zettelkasten.de/ except they focus on note-taking while you have some emphasis on reading as well.
- baruchel 5y agoHi, it is a very nice project. I like it! You could probably also quickly add a manifest for turning your current HTML template into a web app (benefits are that when adding a shortcut on the Home screen of some mobile device, the website will open in a dedicated window (rather than in a tab of the browser) with a dedicated title in the list of running application (rather than the name of the browser), a dedicated icon on the launch screen, etc.). See https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/Manifest https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/Manifest
- stunt 5y agoDoes Github allow you to use Action for this type of thing?
- tacone 5y agoThank you for this. I'm missing a good RSS service so much and was about to implement something like this myself. Well done!