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I just logged into my Feedly for the first time in a couple years (maybe longer). I had moved all my RSS from Google Reader to Feedly back when all that went do

by taude 5y ago

I just logged into my Feedly for the first time in a couple years (maybe longer). I had moved all my RSS from Google Reader to Feedly back when all that went down. Turns out, most of the blogs I subscribed to back in the day are now defunct or not updated much. I think that's why I eventually stopped going to my Feedly for RSS aggreggation, and instead for the few moments a day I want to read news/waste time, I just go directly to The Verge, Hacker News, and/or Reddit. Funny aside, though. My product at work still has a RSS plugin for importing content, and I have it pointed at Reddit RSS feeds for sub-reddits, and it's still working....

taude 5y ago
BTW, I just also realized, that I get a lot of my articles/news from my Google News widget on my Android phone (and in the Google News app on my iPad), and the AI on that has curated a pretty decent list of topics that I like to follow.
- taude 5y ago
  Final, final realization/thoughts. It's pretty obvious I let the curation of my Feedly go stale and that I should clean out the old cruft, and give it a try again. I forgot about the nice keyboard short-cuts for navigating article titles. And it's also nice way to view heavy news sources, like The Verge. However, as a user I'd need to decide: do I want to open the funnel of content like this where I feel obligated to read all the stuff in my feed? I kind of feel like I don't need to be so diligent with these things. And if that's the case, my use case looks more and more like only using RSS for super specific, niche websites that I don't want to remember to visit on a regular basis. Which could be OK, but then I have to remember to visit my RSS reader.
- cout 5y ago
  How do news apps get their content when it is aggregated from multiple sites? (I've never used google news but the ios news app shows content from multiple popular sites). Is it rss, atom, or something completely different?
  - taude 5y ago
    Looks like Google has a product called Google News SEO, a way for websites to optimize their SEO so that Google's "news" crawlers can grab the content [1] [2] "Using the Publisher Center tool, you can share your content with Google News by listing RSS feeds, website URLs, or videos." [1] https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9607025?hl=en https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9607... [2] My original link to how it works: https://ppcexpo.com/blog/how-does-google-news-work https://ppcexpo.com/blog/how-does-google-news-work EDIT: found the original Google docs instead
behnamoh 5y ago
Here's HN's RSS: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss Let's hope it will not go defunct anytime soon.
- Masema 5y ago
  There are also custom feeds with more features available from https://hnrss.github.io/ https://hnrss.github.io/ One of those feeds is how I came across this post.

by taude 5y ago

taude 5y ago

BTW, I just also realized, that I get a lot of my articles/news from my Google News widget on my Android phone (and in the Google News app on my iPad), and the AI on that has curated a pretty decent list of topics that I like to follow.

taude 5y ago
Final, final realization/thoughts. It's pretty obvious I let the curation of my Feedly go stale and that I should clean out the old cruft, and give it a try again. I forgot about the nice keyboard short-cuts for navigating article titles. And it's also nice way to view heavy news sources, like The Verge. However, as a user I'd need to decide: do I want to open the funnel of content like this where I feel obligated to read all the stuff in my feed? I kind of feel like I don't need to be so diligent with these things. And if that's the case, my use case looks more and more like only using RSS for super specific, niche websites that I don't want to remember to visit on a regular basis. Which could be OK, but then I have to remember to visit my RSS reader.
cout 5y ago
How do news apps get their content when it is aggregated from multiple sites? (I've never used google news but the ios news app shows content from multiple popular sites). Is it rss, atom, or something completely different?
- taude 5y ago
  Looks like Google has a product called Google News SEO, a way for websites to optimize their SEO so that Google's "news" crawlers can grab the content [1] [2] "Using the Publisher Center tool, you can share your content with Google News by listing RSS feeds, website URLs, or videos." [1] https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9607025?hl=en https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9607... [2] My original link to how it works: https://ppcexpo.com/blog/how-does-google-news-work https://ppcexpo.com/blog/how-does-google-news-work EDIT: found the original Google docs instead

behnamoh 5y ago

Here's HN's RSS: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss Let's hope it will not go defunct anytime soon.

Masema 5y ago
There are also custom feeds with more features available from https://hnrss.github.io/ https://hnrss.github.io/ One of those feeds is how I came across this post.