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- gbrown 5y agoIf Google reader had never existed, I feel like RSS could have become the foundation of the modern web.
- urda 5y agoIt honestly amazing we had e-mail before the messes of today. Otherwise we'd be stuck with a dozen different "mail" apps.
- toper-centage 5y agoAnd all those apps want to become E-Mail.
- knorker 5y agoThe 90s had competition here. There was MSN, FirstClass, Internet, Compuserve, AOL. The Internet won, but no it's not as simple as "we already had email". It didn't start out unified. I'm talking about for the consumer. Sure, the Internet sure had a leg up on winning, in retrospect, because it was open and built by schools too. But imagine if Microsoft had successfully pushed MSN as "the" network for high schools? These competitors were point-and-click easy for nontechies long before the Internet was.
- ronenlh 5y agoNot familiar with google reader and its impact on rss. Could you explain? Thanks I tried many times to use rss but found the ecosystem to be terrible.
- totetsu 5y agoTook over the ecosystem the stopped its service.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoGoogle reader leveraged Googles search index to allow users to easily find RSS feeds on any topic, and build a personal feed of all the articles from their chosen topics. Think a Gmail type interface, but for RRS with a built in RSS search. Then one day, Google just killed it, and over night millions of RSS feeds cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
- aequitas 5y agoGoogle Reader disappearing certainly had an impact, but I think there is another factor that contributed to companies abandoning RSS: user tracking & advertising. For example: our country's version of eBay used to have a great RSS service where you could set up a feed for search queries on their site. I would skim through all the feeds once a day to see if there where any deals I liked. But now they have replaced it with an email service, which requires me to visit their website to see the results of the queries (every query also has it's own notification email). Which means they get data on the things I am potentially buying and how engaged I'm with them (since the email is coupled to my account, the RSS was not). It would also give them an opportunity to present some ads, because I have to visit their site every time I want to see if there are any interesting results.
- dilippkumar 5y ago> I tried many times to use rss but found the ecosystem to be terrible. If you are in the apple ecosystem, I would recommend giving it a try with NetNewsWire + A feedbin subscription. NetNewsWire has an iOS and a macOS client and has a clean UI. FeedBin's killer feature is that they provide an email address that you can use to subscribe to newsletters - being able to read these along with other blog updates is a game changer. I have found that the best content is from people who write their own newsletters or blog on their own platform. After experiencing the internet liberated from all pop ups, pay walls, advertisements, GDPR harassment and google AMP, I don't think I can ever go back.
- mkotowski 5y agoCare to elaborate? Why an existence of a popular RSS reader has to do with preventing a protocol it is using from being more recognized?
- moritonal 5y agoNot op, but my guess is that by creating a centralised service which abstracted RSS away, it meant that when Google killed the reader it damaged the ecosystem as a whole, including the underlying protocol.
- gbrown 5y agoExactly
- grozzle 5y agoGoogle making Reader very good, and it becoming the most popular method of using RSS (for reading articles, at least - not for podcasts), and then suddenly killing it, can be seen as pretty much an "embrace, extend, extinguish" move.
- acidburnNSA 5y agoFunny to read this from my RSS reader. Happy to see RSS catching back on! See also: the builtin HN RSS feed at https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss And also the RSSHub capabilities here: https://docs.rsshub.app/en/programming.html#hacker-news https://docs.rsshub.app/en/programming.html#hacker-news
- anonymousiam 5y agoI've been subscribed to news.ycombinator.com/rss for a few years, but (more often lately) I have noticed that it does not update frequently, and many stories that have appeared on the desktop site (not "new", but on the front page) do not appear in the feed. I will give https://hnrss.org/frontpage https://hnrss.org/frontpage a try.
- mdp2021 5y ago> it does not update frequently How often do you retrieve? I find it to be one of the most active
- boardwaalk 5y agoI think the HN RSS feed reorders entries which confuses some RSS readers.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoI have also been using 'news.ycombinator.com/rss' for years, I have no problem with it, but then I only fetch and view the actual content of the xml in real time, and don't have a reader storing and sorting the entries. What I can say is, the /rss feed always 100% matches the frontpage at the time of it's fetch. EDIT: looking at the /rss feed, it's missing a <guid> tag for articles, which maybe confusing some readers that rely on that tag for article uniqueness.
- spiffytech 5y agoI saw that too. I used to run my own HN RSS feed that was just a pass-thru to HN's RSS feed, but with the comments as the primary link. No matter how often my feed reader fetched, I routinely saw links show up on HN Daily or HN Blogs that my pass-thru feed hadn't captured. Eventually I learned that hnrss has a flag to make the comments the primary link. I switched to that, and no more problem.
- senectus1 5y agooh man. my RSS feed is already crowded... what are you doing to me?! ;-) this looks great!
- kleer001 5y agoOh goodness, haven't added a new feed to my reader in ages. Much obliged!
- edavis 5y agoHey everybody, hnrss maintainer here. Just FYI, I’ve recently added a (what else?) RSS feed for hnrss if you want to stay updated: https://hnrss.github.io/updates.xml https://hnrss.github.io/updates.xml If you're using hnrss in interesting ways I'd love to hear about it! Reply below.
- tofukid 5y agoThanks so much for this. It’s how I read HN :)
- andrewinardeer 5y agoI have GitHub Student Pack and Mailgun gives a generous free tier. I've plugged RSS2EMAIL into Mailgun via a script on my server that emails me stories that match my criteria. I have also written a script that pushes a custom notification to my phone on other criteria.
- cetra3 5y agoWhat RSS Readers is everyone using? I have used tiny tiny rss before, but was wondering if there was another alternative
- asdff 5y agonewsboat
- schredder 5y agoReeder on iOS
- rabboRubble 5y agoInfoReader
- tofukid 5y agoI use (and made) https://sumi.news https://sumi.news - RSS, newsletter, and Twitter support. No subscription. Clean chronological feed, and a per-feed recent entry view.
- dntbrsnbl 5y agoI made https://readr.nz/ https://readr.nz/ which works pretty well for me. Source code is here https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/progrssive https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/progrssive
- aceki 5y agoNot exactly a reader, but I use rss2email[0]. It’s pretty easy to setup, has optional HTML/CSS support, and I run a cron job to pull feeds daily. I like being able to browse through articles wherever I can get email without having to rely on a separate, proprietary service or self-hosting. [0] https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email
- chayleaf 5y agoI use Maubot with an RSS plugin to send new feed entries to Matrix
- rvdca 5y ago