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I love RSS, hope it makes a resurgence. But I don't think the only reason for the death of RSS was the discontinuation of Google Reader. RSS can become very me
by Yaina 5y ago
I love RSS, hope it makes a resurgence. But I don't think the only reason for the death of RSS was the discontinuation of Google Reader.
RSS can become very messy super quickly, and I think we need clients that don't look like the ones we know from 15 years ago, but ones that help users to keep their subscriptions neat and clean.
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- robobro 5y agoAtom > RSS
- laurent92 5y agoApple Podcasts is an example of client which doesn’t look like a tool from 15 years ago. This is quite what RSS needs: Killer usecases for the Z generation. And podcasts are only halfway fashionable. Instagram, OnlyFans… it seems RSS needs a payment model to be fashionable ;)
- smolyeet 5y agoI know this is subjective, but it's so hard to find a good rss reader with a modern UI and isn't inexpensive/free
- menotyou 5y agoI use http://www.netvibes.com http://www.netvibes.com
- dntbrsnbl 5y agoI wrote https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/progrssive https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/progrssive for this reason(and for offline support). It's free, and should be trivial to selfhost (there's also a live version at https://readr.nz https://readr.nz)
- mulderc 5y agoReeder and net news wire are both pretty good imho
- jjav 5y ago> I know this is subjective, but it's so hard to find a good rss reader with a modern UI and isn't inexpensive/free To me RSS and the reader are and should be separate. RSS is the protocol to query and retrieve updated articles. The reader can be anything you like. Personally I use rss2email for retrieval and my UI is my email app.
- baal80spam 5y agoNot sure if web reader is OK for you but I've been using FREE tier of Inoreader for over 10 years now. I love it, it does its job and that's what counts.
- hopesthoughts 5y agoMiniflux does it for me. Although you do have to have a place to install it. I mean, it needs a server. Whether that's a home server that you have, or a VPS, it doesn't matter.
- jdeibele 5y agoI use Feedly on the backend, Reeder 3 on my Mac and NetNewsWire on my iPad. I did pay for Reeder years ago and I use it on my Mac because it has good keystroke support (j for next article, etc.) whereas NNW does not. There's a Reeder 5 and the two improvements (for me) that it has over 3 is that Twitter probably won't say "outdated browser" and refuse to show tweets and support for adding newsfeeds directly. I think MacOS added support for this after Reeder 3 was released. Mixing the two readers is fine because Feedly is keeping track for them. If Feedly were to start charging, I'd probably start using NNW exclusively since they provide the option of using iCloud to sync.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoI remember when Google Reader shutdown and I was outraged. Found RSSOwl and migrated all subscriptions tediously. Then YouTube shut down its RSS feeds and all I had left was basically slightly smarter bookmarks to a scattering of blogs. Then Firefox removed RSS. At that point, why bother trying anymore? Entirely replaced by link-voting sites now, like HN.
- Jorengarenar 5y ago>YouTube shut down its RSS feeds They had some other RSS feeds than for channels and playlists?
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoNot that I know of or recall.
- Jorengarenar 5y agoThen those still work
- maturz 5y agohttps://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard