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RSS has been alive this whole time. Blogs usually have it by default, the big news organizations have it. The only thing I'm not satisfied with reading news on

RSS has been alive this whole time. Blogs usually have it by default, the big news organizations have it. The only thing I'm not satisfied with reading news on RSS, is that news organizations push too many articles, to the point that reading the headlines alone takes quite some time. There's nearly 100 articles per day per source sometimes. Unlike a newspaper, which has a natural structure of priority and hierarchy, in an RSS reader, every head line has the same salience, and it's a pain to weed out what's important. I kinda hope news organizations would make a separate "weekly digest feed", 30 or so articles per week.

shepherdjerred 4y ago
I think feedly has features to help filter less popular articles
ecliptik 4y ago
Newsblur has a training feature [1], with a thumbs up/down on article tags, author, and keywords in a title that can bubble up more interesting articles or completely hide them. Unfortunately training is per feed, there's a newer Premium Pro tier with global training coming out with it, but it is much more expensive [2]. 1. https://www.newsblur.com/faq https://www.newsblur.com/faq (under Intelligence section) 2. https://forum.newsblur.com/t/global-keyword-training/5419/6 https://forum.newsblur.com/t/global-keyword-training/5419/6
- mh- 4y ago
  Wow, $299/year. you weren't kidding. I assume this is targeted at professionals that are trying to stay abreast of developments around certain topics/subjects. If you think about it through that lens it's reasonably priced, I suppose.
  - wahnfrieden 4y ago
    lol all these RSS readers really go in on solving problems as broadly as possible - not just ocean boiling, it leaves each user with a subpar experience even if it’s novel (having to laboriously refine results yourself). it would be easy for them to for instance scrape many popular news sources or APIs for ranking/top story info to at least cover these extremely common and extremely noisy feeds
  - uoaei 4y ago
    Yes. Feedly seems to be marketing itself at investors and speculators lately (or trading bots I suppose), because they're using NLP to highlight and categorize articles based on whether they mention acquisitions, mergers, leadership changes, etc.
    - PeterisP 4y ago
      Feedly seems to be marketing itself as whatever interest group they think you are, because they're using NLP to highlight and categorize articles but at least for me not regarding whether they mention acquisitions, mergers, leadership changes, etc (though some of the articles my feed do) but rather whether they mention new security vulnerabilities or attacks - and I'd guess the same for many other specific niche domains.
      - uoaei 4y ago
        I also saw the "new exploit" notifications. It may just be a question of feed curation, too.
- stanislavb 4y ago
  Hey mate, you can give a go to lenns.io (an opinionated RSS reader). You can assign different priorities to both sources and categories to have the important (for you) articles show first.
reaperducer 4y ago
Not a complete solution to your problem, but the New York Times at least offers different RSS feeds for different sections. So you can have a different feed for Science and Technology, and one for Australia, and one for New York. By not using the front page firehose, you can keep the number of inbound articles to a more manageable level.
- remram 4y ago
  The BBC as well: https://www.bbc.com/news/10628494 https://www.bbc.com/news/10628494 ("top stories", "world", "politics", "health", "technology", ...) Though like many sites, I have no idea how you would reach the "feeds" page from the front page (I gave up and searched Google for it)
  - reaperducer 4y ago
    If you have Reeder, you just paste the regular web page URL into it and it tries to figure out the RSS address on its own. It's possible that other RSS readers do the same, since the RSS information is usually in the page's metadata.
    - remram 4y ago
      Yeah there is usually a <link> but none to be found on bbc.co.uk...
jamesq 4y ago
With FlipRSS.com we let subscribers choose only the content they want to receive. Using RSS feeds, matched to interest groups, content creators can keep in regular contact but deliver more personalised subscriber experiences. We love RSS!
asdff 4y ago
newsboat supports regex filters and macros/outside scripts which can be powerful
- Zhyl 4y ago
  Newsboat also has a sqlite backend, so you can use scripts directly on the database which is handy.
acdw 4y ago
I had this problem too, until I installed and configured sfeed[1] on my server --- now it's all on one page, and much less "push-y" :P [1]: https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html (You can see my setup at https://acdw.casa/planet https://acdw.casa/planet)
vorpalhex 4y ago
If you just want highlights, https://brutalist.report https://brutalist.report is my go to
mike-cardwell 4y ago
I added rss filter/grep support to my homebrew rss->email script. So for example, I follow https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss but only for articles with titles matching certain patterns: mike@klaus:~$ rss --list|grep ycomb 155. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss mike@klaus:~$ rss --list-grep 155 74. title = (?i)\b((e-?|web)?mail|hardenize|irc|internet relay chat|grpc|hashicorp|rust|debian|c\+\+|perl|(bit|name)coin|tor|pgp|gpg|gnupg|openpgp|digitalocean|ovh|linode|grepular|email\s*privacy\s*tester|parsemail|ssl|https|backdoor|apache|exim|distribut|peer (to|2) peer|vpn|secur|anonym|webrtc|torrent|webtorrent|nextcloud|owncloud|graphql)(ity|ous|e?s|ing?|ed?)?\b I also randomly hit the front page of course, otherwise I wouldn't have seen this. Maybe I should add "rss" to my regex
stanislavb 4y ago
That's one of the reasons I build lenns.io. An alternative RSS reader. I gives you some additional vectors of control. For example, you can limit the number of items per source to show on your feed, as well as assign priorities to both sources and categories. Combined - it gives you a calm feed following all the sources your are interested in. I'd be more than happy if you give it a go and share how it seems.
bradgessler 4y ago
I ran into the same problem and ended up building https://legiblenews.com/upgrades/the-weekly-edition https://legiblenews.com/upgrades/the-weekly-edition We need to get back to a world where we’d have daily or weekly issues of news that we all read so that we can’t point at the same thing and say, “that’s right” or “that’s wrong”.
krisdigital 4y ago
I had a similar problem and created nooshub.com some years ago, it groups similar articles and uses the group size to detect news trends, but everything can also be configured per feed collection if you prefer chronological feeds. I use this to quickly check what is going on with high rate feeds, for other feeds like podcasts I keep it classic... You can see it in action on some pages that do not require login like https://www.nooshub.com/pages/7-news-international https://www.nooshub.com/pages/7-news-international

shepherdjerred 4y ago

I think feedly has features to help filter less popular articles

ecliptik 4y ago

Newsblur has a training feature [1], with a thumbs up/down on article tags, author, and keywords in a title that can bubble up more interesting articles or completely hide them. Unfortunately training is per feed, there's a newer Premium Pro tier with global training coming out with it, but it is much more expensive [2]. 1. https://www.newsblur.com/faq https://www.newsblur.com/faq (under Intelligence section) 2. https://forum.newsblur.com/t/global-keyword-training/5419/6 https://forum.newsblur.com/t/global-keyword-training/5419/6

mh- 4y ago
Wow, $299/year. you weren't kidding. I assume this is targeted at professionals that are trying to stay abreast of developments around certain topics/subjects. If you think about it through that lens it's reasonably priced, I suppose.
- wahnfrieden 4y ago
  lol all these RSS readers really go in on solving problems as broadly as possible - not just ocean boiling, it leaves each user with a subpar experience even if it’s novel (having to laboriously refine results yourself). it would be easy for them to for instance scrape many popular news sources or APIs for ranking/top story info to at least cover these extremely common and extremely noisy feeds
- uoaei 4y ago
  Yes. Feedly seems to be marketing itself at investors and speculators lately (or trading bots I suppose), because they're using NLP to highlight and categorize articles based on whether they mention acquisitions, mergers, leadership changes, etc.
  - PeterisP 4y ago
    Feedly seems to be marketing itself as whatever interest group they think you are, because they're using NLP to highlight and categorize articles but at least for me not regarding whether they mention acquisitions, mergers, leadership changes, etc (though some of the articles my feed do) but rather whether they mention new security vulnerabilities or attacks - and I'd guess the same for many other specific niche domains.
    - uoaei 4y ago
      I also saw the "new exploit" notifications. It may just be a question of feed curation, too.
stanislavb 4y ago
Hey mate, you can give a go to lenns.io (an opinionated RSS reader). You can assign different priorities to both sources and categories to have the important (for you) articles show first.

reaperducer 4y ago

Not a complete solution to your problem, but the New York Times at least offers different RSS feeds for different sections. So you can have a different feed for Science and Technology, and one for Australia, and one for New York. By not using the front page firehose, you can keep the number of inbound articles to a more manageable level.

remram 4y ago
The BBC as well: https://www.bbc.com/news/10628494 https://www.bbc.com/news/10628494 ("top stories", "world", "politics", "health", "technology", ...) Though like many sites, I have no idea how you would reach the "feeds" page from the front page (I gave up and searched Google for it)
- reaperducer 4y ago
  If you have Reeder, you just paste the regular web page URL into it and it tries to figure out the RSS address on its own. It's possible that other RSS readers do the same, since the RSS information is usually in the page's metadata.
  - remram 4y ago
    Yeah there is usually a <link> but none to be found on bbc.co.uk...

jamesq 4y ago

With FlipRSS.com we let subscribers choose only the content they want to receive. Using RSS feeds, matched to interest groups, content creators can keep in regular contact but deliver more personalised subscriber experiences. We love RSS!

asdff 4y ago

newsboat supports regex filters and macros/outside scripts which can be powerful

Zhyl 4y ago
Newsboat also has a sqlite backend, so you can use scripts directly on the database which is handy.

acdw 4y ago

I had this problem too, until I installed and configured sfeed[1] on my server --- now it's all on one page, and much less "push-y" :P [1]: https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html (You can see my setup at https://acdw.casa/planet https://acdw.casa/planet)

vorpalhex 4y ago

If you just want highlights, https://brutalist.report https://brutalist.report is my go to

mike-cardwell 4y ago

stanislavb 4y ago

That's one of the reasons I build lenns.io. An alternative RSS reader. I gives you some additional vectors of control. For example, you can limit the number of items per source to show on your feed, as well as assign priorities to both sources and categories. Combined - it gives you a calm feed following all the sources your are interested in. I'd be more than happy if you give it a go and share how it seems.

bradgessler 4y ago

I ran into the same problem and ended up building https://legiblenews.com/upgrades/the-weekly-edition https://legiblenews.com/upgrades/the-weekly-edition We need to get back to a world where we’d have daily or weekly issues of news that we all read so that we can’t point at the same thing and say, “that’s right” or “that’s wrong”.

krisdigital 4y ago

I had a similar problem and created nooshub.com some years ago, it groups similar articles and uses the group size to detect news trends, but everything can also be configured per feed collection if you prefer chronological feeds. I use this to quickly check what is going on with high rate feeds, for other feeds like podcasts I keep it classic... You can see it in action on some pages that do not require login like https://www.nooshub.com/pages/7-news-international https://www.nooshub.com/pages/7-news-international