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HN is a great place to gather RSS feeds. Any time there's an interesting site I always look for them. These days I usually see articles that appear on the HN fr

HN is a great place to gather RSS feeds. Any time there's an interesting site I always look for them. These days I usually see articles that appear on the HN front page a day or so before they hit HN. But HN isn't the only place I practice this. Back in the 2010s it was obvious reddit was going under so I did the same there till 2015. I have 1000+ RSS feeds now and very little need for news aggregators on the day to day (except finding new feeds). QuiteRSS is an excellent native reader that handles my thousands of feeds well. It is so multi-platform it even has an OS/2 version. https://quiterss.org/ https://quiterss.org/

RadiozRadioz 4y ago
I do this too, but only started a few days ago. That's a lot of feeds you've collected, would you be open to sharing a list of them?
- vanilla_nut 4y ago
  I post my list of subscriptions to my blog in OPML format: https://github.com/nathan-contino/nathan-contino.github.io/blob/master/_resources/nates-subscriptions.opml https://github.com/nathan-contino/nathan-contino.github.io/b... (github link, so you can preview it). If you like bicycles and simple tech stuff, you might enjoy.
- superkuh 4y ago
  Sure. Here is the opml file and an HTML listing of the feed URLs and their website URL/name organized by categories: http://a.superkuh.com/feeds9.html http://a.superkuh.com/feeds9.html and http://a.superkuh.com/2022-11-04-feedlist.opml http://a.superkuh.com/2022-11-04-feedlist.opml This is my script to convert .opml to html unordered list, http://superkuh.com/regexopmltohtml.pl.txt http://superkuh.com/regexopmltohtml.pl.txt Most HN sourced feeds are in the "Computing but not spammy" category. The first load of the big opml into QuiteRSS (if you try it) might take a while. After that it will be faster. I suggest enabling the "load database to ram" option in QuiteRSS configuration.
noveltyaccount 4y ago
Good grief I struggle to keep up with eight feeds in my RSS reader!
- moehm 4y ago
  I see two use cases of an RSS reader. You can use them as a stream of news and just dive in when you want, or trying to read every article. I personally do a bit of both, mixing feeds, but with good tagging and filtering.
  - jerlam 4y ago
    I do the same - I separate "firehose" feeds that have dozens or more updates a day, from feeds that may update once a month. The latter is likely more important and cannot be lost in the noise of the former. It is a very small microcosm of how we say we want social media feeds to work (chronological) but why algorithms are everywhere.
- kevincox 4y ago
  I think it depends on the type of feeds you subscribe to. Some big news sites have multiple posts an hour whereas many personal blogs don't post in the average month. Personally I do more of the latter and probably get less than 10 new items a day (and 3 of those tend to be comics which are quick to read over breakfast). Often the higher-volume feeds that I subscribe to are filtered by author or category to focus on what I am really interested in.

RadiozRadioz 4y ago

I do this too, but only started a few days ago. That's a lot of feeds you've collected, would you be open to sharing a list of them?

vanilla_nut 4y ago
I post my list of subscriptions to my blog in OPML format: https://github.com/nathan-contino/nathan-contino.github.io/blob/master/_resources/nates-subscriptions.opml https://github.com/nathan-contino/nathan-contino.github.io/b... (github link, so you can preview it). If you like bicycles and simple tech stuff, you might enjoy.
superkuh 4y ago
Sure. Here is the opml file and an HTML listing of the feed URLs and their website URL/name organized by categories: http://a.superkuh.com/feeds9.html http://a.superkuh.com/feeds9.html and http://a.superkuh.com/2022-11-04-feedlist.opml http://a.superkuh.com/2022-11-04-feedlist.opml This is my script to convert .opml to html unordered list, http://superkuh.com/regexopmltohtml.pl.txt http://superkuh.com/regexopmltohtml.pl.txt Most HN sourced feeds are in the "Computing but not spammy" category. The first load of the big opml into QuiteRSS (if you try it) might take a while. After that it will be faster. I suggest enabling the "load database to ram" option in QuiteRSS configuration.

noveltyaccount 4y ago

Good grief I struggle to keep up with eight feeds in my RSS reader!

moehm 4y ago
I see two use cases of an RSS reader. You can use them as a stream of news and just dive in when you want, or trying to read every article. I personally do a bit of both, mixing feeds, but with good tagging and filtering.
- jerlam 4y ago
  I do the same - I separate "firehose" feeds that have dozens or more updates a day, from feeds that may update once a month. The latter is likely more important and cannot be lost in the noise of the former. It is a very small microcosm of how we say we want social media feeds to work (chronological) but why algorithms are everywhere.
kevincox 4y ago
I think it depends on the type of feeds you subscribe to. Some big news sites have multiple posts an hour whereas many personal blogs don't post in the average month. Personally I do more of the latter and probably get less than 10 new items a day (and 3 of those tend to be comics which are quick to read over breakfast). Often the higher-volume feeds that I subscribe to are filtered by author or category to focus on what I am really interested in.