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RSS is built for notification. You can get notifications of new rich-text content, videos, whatever. But notifications when you choose to get them, rather than
by jerf 5y ago
RSS is built for notification. You can get notifications of new rich-text content, videos, whatever. But notifications when you choose to get them, rather than push notifications. (If I got a push notification to my phone for every RSS article I read I'd go nuts.)
- rambambram 5y agoThis is a very important part a lot of people miss, I think.
- Semiapies 5y agoSome people get obsessed with trying to read everything through RSS and never going to a web page. I've never understood that. I find invoking the NYT especially funny because they have MANY RSS feeds, letting you filter by sections.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoThat's because a lot of us like to read offline and via e-ink. It's replaced a newspaper for many folks who want to just relax and somewhat unplug for a bit.
- Semiapies 5y agoYou can get the NYT literally delivered to your door in completely offline form. I used to pick up a copy to read during lunch at work, back before smartphones. The Sunday NYT is a bit of a challenge, mind you.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoThe news I'm interested in doesn't come in a newspaper though. Too niche.
- Semiapies 5y agoI'd point to something like Feedbin's ability to pull remote content from the subscribed site, then. No idea how well it works on something with an e-ink display, though. You might look whether anyone's made a stand-alone RSS client aimed at offline reading that has that ability.