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Show HN: OPML list of Hacker News Users Personal Blogs

281 points by outcoldman 3y ago

iddan 3y ago
I think my blog is not in the list even though I submitted it in the thread. https://aniddan.com/blog https://aniddan.com/blog
- wheybags 3y ago
  Same, mine is http://wheybags.com/blog http://wheybags.com/blog
DonHopkins 3y ago
OMFG somebody remembers OPML!
- outcoldman 3y ago
  RSS is the only way to read news :D Reddit, HN - everything goes to my RSS ;)
  - award_ 3y ago
    This is the way. I just swapped as many news, social (reddit/etc) and the like over to newsblur via RSS and I'm VERY happy. This OPML will go a long way to filling out my categories :-) Thanks a bunch for your efforts!
  - themodelplumber 3y ago
    RSS traditionally kinda sucks for discovery purposes though. (Unless you count these HN threads as the discovery part) I do wonder what's a good way of doing discovery in software, FOSS-style. Using open source client side and free APIs if needed.
    - paladum 3y ago
      What about subscribing to OPML files hosted on URLs ? That way one can follow OPML list "hosts" (like the one on OPs repository) and discover new RSS feeds. I'm quite surprised that this feature do not exists in RSS reader I tried.
    - dagurp 3y ago
      Good. I'm tired of apps suggesting stuff to me.
  - DonHopkins 3y ago
    Then why not use RSS, or Atom, or CSV, or HTML, for that matter? That OPML "outline" has no tree structure at all, except for the single top level container item: <outline title="HN Personal Blogs" text="HN Personal Blogs"> What is the point of using OPML for a flat structure? Outlines are all well and fine, but a list of links to blogs is hardly an outline. And isn't JSON the simplest most ubiquitous accessible standard format for outlines and even arrays of links these days, if not just raw-dogging XML? More thoughts and opinions and history of OPML, RSS, Dave Winer, More, Frontier, Manila, Radio UserLand, XML-RPC, SOAP, Xanadu, spreadsheets, CSV, JSON, XML, etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21170434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21170434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16224154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16224154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20780928 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20780928 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35674125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35674125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544675
    - NoboruWataya 3y ago
      I think it's just that OPML has traditionally been used to import/export lists of RSS feeds, and therefore most readers are capable of importing an OPML file whereas other formats would not be as widely supported.
      - DonHopkins 3y ago
        Why do RSS feeds need to be imported/exported as anything other than RSS feeds? According to this thread, four out of five RSS apps on Linux Mint failed to import the OPML file, and the one that did was buggy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627431 Maybe I'm thick, but it bewilders me that someone wouldn't simply use RSS or Atom directly, instead of abusing OPML to mis-represent it (which is itself just as terribly designed as RSS, by the same person, Dave Winer -- don't even get me started). Is this some kind of a masochistic corrupted data ingestion challenge from TikTok that I'm not aware of, akin to eating Tide Pods or washing your clothes in Campbell's Soup? Does anyone even ever use OPML for outlines any more? Or is it like YAML's backflip, where its original name meant "Yet Another Markup Language" until somebody pointed out to their great surprise that it WASN'T actually a markup language, so they retroactively recursively renamed it "YAML Ain't Markup Language" on opposite day? So does OPML no longer stand for "Outline Processor Markup Language" any more, but now stands for something else like "OPML Presents Mere Lists"? What's wrong with exporting and importing RSS as RSS? Has its meaning also changed, flipping places with OPML, so it now means "RSS Serves Structures", so you use RSS for nested trees and OPML for flat lists now? I suppose you could recursively encode outlines as nested RSS feeds inside the text content other RSS feeds as <![CDATA[ at each level, or since those can't be nested, exponentially doubling the number of escaped entities at each level. I Wanna Be <![CDATA[ -- Sung to the tune of “I Wanna Be Sedated”, with apologies to The Ramones: https://donhopkins.medium.com/i-wanna-be-cdata-3406e14d4f21 https://donhopkins.medium.com/i-wanna-be-cdata-3406e14d4f21
revskill 3y ago
How do you update this list on a daily basis ? Github actions is an option.
- outcoldman 3y ago
  I am not sure if users of HN will be updating the original HN discussion in general, but yeah, GitHub actions can be an option for this. For now, I just wanted to add those 600+ blogs to my RSS and filter them out slowly if I need to.
  - revskill 3y ago
    If possible, could you also add to description for anyone wants to add to your list, to go to original thread and submit ? Currently it seems there're many people fetch from original thread, which makes it ne source of truth, less confusing for anyone to submit.
    - outcoldman 3y ago
      Yeah, the best way is to go back to the original post and submit comment there on top level. Make sure HN recognize that as a correct href and your blog has alternative link to rss/atom. And for now only users with 100+ karma are included. I left the console.log there as well to show which blogs aren't recognized. I am also open for PR. It was just a few hours project to get it going, but if people will find it useful, would be nice to get some tags from the blogs, so it would be possible to extract the list only for specific technology/topics.
      - BeetleB 3y ago
        > Make sure HN recognize that as a correct href and your blog has alternative link to rss/atom. Any details on how to do this? My blog (https://blog.nawaz.org/ https://blog.nawaz.org/) has an RSS feed here (https://blog.nawaz.org/feeds/all.atom.xml https://blog.nawaz.org/feeds/all.atom.xml) but I don't know how to set it up the way you'd need it.
zorrolovsky 3y ago
Thanks for the effort, this is a fantastic resource. I installed 5 RSS reader apps in my Linux Mint machine to test the OPML. 4 of them failed to import the file: Thunderbird, Lifera, Quitrss and another one I forgot the name. Gnome RSS did import the file but it became slow and buggy. I think the file is too long for a typical RSS feed app to process it. Also, there might be some formatting issues a couple apps threw a "incorrect format" error (Thunderbird being one of them). Now trying CPod and giving it time... I hope in 20 mins or so it can work with it. I wonder if web-based RSS readers will work better with the file.
- outcoldman 3y ago
  I run freshrss and was able to import it there. Do you get any errors while importing it? I believe also this XML maybe not valid. Will regenerate it a few minutes.
- mrloop 3y ago
  I tried importing at feedbin.com, 524 of 598 imported successfully. The failures being a mixture of not found or connection errors and a couple of invalid URL errors
  - outcoldman 3y ago
    I just resubmitted the list, I believe around 500+ there is an invalid XML tag, which is fixed now. So all of them should be valid now. Forgot to do xml escape for the URLs
- anthk 3y ago
  I had no issues with sfeed, you can get it from https://codemadness.org https://codemadness.org
winrid 3y ago
Oh, did it miss mine because I use rss.xml and not feed.xml? https://blog.winricklabs.com/rss.xml https://blog.winricklabs.com/rss.xml
- tommasoamici 3y ago
  No, it's because you should include this link tag in the <head> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="XXX" href="https://blog.winricklabs.com/rss.xml">
  - winrid 3y ago
    ohmygosh. Thanks, fixed.
  - BigglesB 3y ago
    Ohhhh! Thank you! Looks like I need to do this too for mine! (https://biggles.games https://biggles.games)
    - BigglesB 3y ago
      Ah, no, I had the atom feed set up already, just insufficient karma on HN... Oh well!
      - ivolimmen 3y ago
        I just gave you some.. who knows.
tommasoamici 3y ago
>No feed: https://tommasoamici.com https://tommasoamici.com by tommasoamici ( 216 ) no feed found for https://tommasoamici.com https://tommasoamici.com Uh, this made me realize I forgot to add the RSS feed link to the head tag when I recently migrated my blog to Astro, fixed now!
- J_cst 3y ago
  Hi Tommaso! Your board games collection is quite noticeable!! Bravo!
- pricechild 3y ago
  Same! Must fix...
- victorbjorklund 3y ago
  Same haha. This was great to realize what i missed when rolling my own rss.
- kevincox 3y ago
  For others with similar issues I wrote up some documentation for publishing a feed that can serve as a checklist. https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/ https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/
- tiddles 3y ago
  Me too, added now!
akhayam 3y ago
Can we commit other people's blogs to this? E.g. I am surprised to not see Julie Zhou's blog in this list--which, I believe, is one of the most influential blogs in the tech product space: https://www.juliezhuo.com/ https://www.juliezhuo.com/.
- outcoldman 3y ago
  I just parsed everything that was published to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 so if they have not published their blog there, it is not in the list.
  - akhayam 3y ago
    Let me send a PR to the project with this addition.
freediver 3y ago
Is there an easy way to make a feed of feeds? So one RSS feed for all these?
- KronisLV 3y ago
  Just made something like that, though I had to split the feeds based on year, otherwise they'd get close to 100 MB in size: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643086
- outcoldman 3y ago
  That is good idea as well! That would require me to actually run the server (or github actions) to refresh the RSS feed, maybe something I would do later on.
  - freediver 3y ago
    Can you please ping me once this is up? We'd love to expose this feed in search results inside Kagi.
  - alanpearce 3y ago
    There are quite common and they're usually called planet <topic>, which might help to find useful resources or software
  - quickthrower2 3y ago
    A github action updating a static file is, well, webscale. And cheap/free to host.
the_common_man 3y ago
What's the difference between rss and opml? Just different standards?
- outcoldman 3y ago
  OPML allows your to export/import the list of RSS/Atom feeds from your RSS reader. So this is a list of 500-600 blogs that people submitted at that HN discussion, that you can import in your RSS reader.
- DonHopkins 3y ago
  Apparently now RSS stands for "RSS Serves Structures" and OPML stands for "OPML Presents Mere Lists".
  - rambambram 3y ago
    Or 'Really Social Sites' and 'Other People's Meaningful Lists'. ;)
- kevincox 3y ago
  OPML (when used in this context) is basically a list of URLs with a touch of metadata. It is the most common format for importing and exporting lists of feeds to move between feed readers. So you generally don't subscribe to an OPML file, it just provides a list of feeds to subscribe to.
PlumpyGER 3y ago
This is amazing! Thanks for the effort! I missed the original thread, but would be happy when you include my blog as well :) RSS Feed (en): https://backendhance.com/en/blog/index.xml https://backendhance.com/en/blog/index.xml RSS Feed (de): https://backendhance.com/blog/index.xml https://backendhance.com/blog/index.xml
- outcoldman 3y ago
  Best way to add it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627385
yard2010 3y ago
HN is such a utopic place. I wonder when the inevitable enshitification will happen, and how?
- hnzix 3y ago
  Fear not, dang is Hodor.
- creamyhorror 3y ago
  [flagged]
- bennysaurus 3y ago
  It has its quirks on occasion and has changed a bit but has been around since 2007 and still going great.
BiggerBio2 3y ago
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Hamuko 3y ago
Looking at how many "https://url.com//feed.xml https://url.com//feed.xml" there are in the list, I have a feeling that the scraping logic needs some work. Is it just concatenating "https://url.com/ https://url.com/" and "/feed.xml"?
- RamblingCTO 3y ago
  It's also not a good idea. On https://andinfinity.eu/ https://andinfinity.eu/ I have a header for that and it clearly indicates that the rss feed lives at index.html. Standard hugo thing I guess.
- outcoldman 3y ago
  I was extracting URL from the alternate link in the HEAD of the blog website. The issue is that some people will do "//example.com/feed.rss", some "feed.rss" or "/feed.rss". So I built pretty stupid URL resolving logic, when I just should have used ResolveReference from go runtime. So the last list will fix that.
fomine3 3y ago
This is the first time to see useful OPML lists except export/import usage
hsnice16 3y ago
https://hsnice16.medium.com/ https://hsnice16.medium.com/
altilunium 3y ago
Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16907298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16907298) I hope this list is constantly maintained and updated. Additionally, do you have any recommendations for a good RSS reader that can properly handle this OPML file? I tried using Omea Reader, but it fails to fetch many of the feeds.
- saeedesmaili 3y ago
  I was able to easily import the list into Inoreader.
  - altilunium 3y ago
    > File exceeds maximum allowed number of subscriptions! Your file contains 659 out of 150 maximum allowed subscriptions for your plan. Alright.. I'm gonna build my own RSS reader then. Edit : A kind of "decentralized" social media platform where we post on our respective personal blogs, and we may follow each other by using RSS subscriptions. If HN is one such platform, here's the chronological timeline : :https://gist.github.com/altilunium/c2fcbe1e23aeb1cb9564f2593ea2e936 https://gist.github.com/altilunium/c2fcbe1e23aeb1cb9564f2593... While generating this list, I found at least 80 sites with inaccessible RSS link : https://gist.github.com/altilunium/8319dae345f701a2a1efd015223c2bab https://gist.github.com/altilunium/8319dae345f701a2a1efd0152...
    - lukesingham 3y ago
      Recommend checking out https://github.com/miniflux/v2 https://github.com/miniflux/v2 n.b. I haven't tested importing 600+ feeds!
    - skydhash 3y ago
      freshrss is nice
    - saeedesmaili 3y ago
      Ah, I'm subscribed to their Pro plan, didn't know there is a limitation on this on free plan.
alanpearce 3y ago
Seems like my blog was not even included in the console output, but it has been part of the thread for a while. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596022 I know I don’t have enough karma, but it seems like the log output should have logged something for that. I also wonder if you’d consider account age as an alternative to karma for anti-spam, as I’m a bit of a hardcore lurker here and I highly doubt that I’m the only one.
- xoranth 3y ago
  (Sorry, I was wrong. See here for the author's reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627385 )
- alemanek 3y ago
  You are definitely not the only one.
- splitbrain 3y ago
  Everyone who missed the thread, please consider adding your blog here: https://indieblog.page/suggest https://indieblog.page/suggest
NoboruWataya 3y ago
There seem to be some malformed URLs here? > <outline type="rss" title="ntietz" text="ntietz" xmlUrl="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ntietz.com&#x2F;atom.xml" htmlUrl="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ntietz.com&#x2F;atom.xml"/>
- outcoldman 3y ago
  Unfortunately that is on u/ntietz, if you look at the https://ntietz.com https://ntietz.com, for some reason they encoded the href ``` <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="https://ntietz.com/atom.xml"> ```
  - kevincox 3y ago
    Is that wrong or just unusual? IIRC entity escapes are allowed in attributes.
    - outcoldman 3y ago
      Hard to tell, web is weird :D I contacted the author and they have fixed it!
fluxinflex 3y ago
I've been playing around with Node-RED[1] for a while and thought I would recreate this using Node-RED (also being a big fan of Node-RED). The flow[2], i.e. code, is online to have a look at (editable but not deployable) and the feed[3] is cached and updated every hour or so. It's only a small Heroku server so it might well be down or about to crash, I make no promises! Thanks to the OP for the inspiration, I did take a lot of ideas from the original codebase :) [1]=https://nodered.org https://nodered.org [2]=https://demo.openmindmap.org/omm/#flow/a8d90fc15ab6990b https://demo.openmindmap.org/omm/#flow/a8d90fc15ab6990b [3]=https://blog.openmindmap.org/example/hacker-news-personal-blog-feed.xml https://blog.openmindmap.org/example/hacker-news-personal-bl...
award_ 3y ago
Thanks! I saw the posts and have been making a move to newsblur recently, this will help a lot with content!
yogsototh 3y ago
That's really great! Thank you for that. I saw some people asking for a good RSS reader. Personally I will use elfeed, and I also use elfeed-org so I could import the OPML file and export it into my existing RSS feeds.
- outcoldman 3y ago
  I use freshrss with combination of Reeder for Mac/iOS.
  - Hamuko 3y ago
    My combination of choice too. The fact that FreshRSS can fetch full article contents for truncated RSS feeds is precisely the thing you need in order to make RSS useful today. Not the biggest fan of the UI but this one feature makes the whole thing so fucking good.
surprisetalk 3y ago
I made an alternative list of blogs with links to RSS feeds :) [0] https://blogs.hn https://blogs.hn
thanatropism 3y ago
Yay, I'm listed!
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luxpir 3y ago
Just a thanks for this. Wanted something like this from that list but didn't have time. Loaded it into Feeder from fdroid (cheers to dev if here) and although it took a while, the result is much better than Twitter et al's output. Might add my own blog to the list one of these days if people keep coming back to this as the reference.
JamesonNetworks 3y ago
Ugh, just need 20 more karma. Don't know anything about farming karma for hackernews though. Oh well, maybe I'll have to fork and allow users to specify their min karma to record the blog...
- tomrod 3y ago
  19
- outcoldman 3y ago
  I will regenerate the list with just 2+ karma. Will let users to figure out what they like or not. 100 was just a random number I used without any idea what is good or bad.
  - JamesonNetworks 3y ago
    I dunno, 80 seems like a pretty good cut off, let me just pull this ole ladder up after myself.... jk, Thanks! Love to be featured on the list, very cool idea. Feels like web rings are coming back
outcoldman 3y ago
I just republished the OPML, now close to 1200 blogs!
- JamesonNetworks 3y ago
  Awesome! Great job on this

281 points by outcoldman 3y ago

I think my blog is not in the list even though I submitted it in the thread. https://aniddan.com/blog https://aniddan.com/blog

wheybags 3y ago
Same, mine is http://wheybags.com/blog http://wheybags.com/blog

DonHopkins 3y ago

OMFG somebody remembers OPML!

outcoldman 3y ago
RSS is the only way to read news :D Reddit, HN - everything goes to my RSS ;)
- award_ 3y ago
  This is the way. I just swapped as many news, social (reddit/etc) and the like over to newsblur via RSS and I'm VERY happy. This OPML will go a long way to filling out my categories :-) Thanks a bunch for your efforts!
- themodelplumber 3y ago
  RSS traditionally kinda sucks for discovery purposes though. (Unless you count these HN threads as the discovery part) I do wonder what's a good way of doing discovery in software, FOSS-style. Using open source client side and free APIs if needed.
  - paladum 3y ago
    What about subscribing to OPML files hosted on URLs ? That way one can follow OPML list "hosts" (like the one on OPs repository) and discover new RSS feeds. I'm quite surprised that this feature do not exists in RSS reader I tried.
  - dagurp 3y ago
    Good. I'm tired of apps suggesting stuff to me.
- DonHopkins 3y ago
  Then why not use RSS, or Atom, or CSV, or HTML, for that matter? That OPML "outline" has no tree structure at all, except for the single top level container item: <outline title="HN Personal Blogs" text="HN Personal Blogs"> What is the point of using OPML for a flat structure? Outlines are all well and fine, but a list of links to blogs is hardly an outline. And isn't JSON the simplest most ubiquitous accessible standard format for outlines and even arrays of links these days, if not just raw-dogging XML? More thoughts and opinions and history of OPML, RSS, Dave Winer, More, Frontier, Manila, Radio UserLand, XML-RPC, SOAP, Xanadu, spreadsheets, CSV, JSON, XML, etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21170434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21170434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16224154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16224154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20780928 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20780928 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35674125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35674125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544675
  - NoboruWataya 3y ago
    I think it's just that OPML has traditionally been used to import/export lists of RSS feeds, and therefore most readers are capable of importing an OPML file whereas other formats would not be as widely supported.
    - DonHopkins 3y ago
      Why do RSS feeds need to be imported/exported as anything other than RSS feeds? According to this thread, four out of five RSS apps on Linux Mint failed to import the OPML file, and the one that did was buggy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627431 Maybe I'm thick, but it bewilders me that someone wouldn't simply use RSS or Atom directly, instead of abusing OPML to mis-represent it (which is itself just as terribly designed as RSS, by the same person, Dave Winer -- don't even get me started). Is this some kind of a masochistic corrupted data ingestion challenge from TikTok that I'm not aware of, akin to eating Tide Pods or washing your clothes in Campbell's Soup? Does anyone even ever use OPML for outlines any more? Or is it like YAML's backflip, where its original name meant "Yet Another Markup Language" until somebody pointed out to their great surprise that it WASN'T actually a markup language, so they retroactively recursively renamed it "YAML Ain't Markup Language" on opposite day? So does OPML no longer stand for "Outline Processor Markup Language" any more, but now stands for something else like "OPML Presents Mere Lists"? What's wrong with exporting and importing RSS as RSS? Has its meaning also changed, flipping places with OPML, so it now means "RSS Serves Structures", so you use RSS for nested trees and OPML for flat lists now? I suppose you could recursively encode outlines as nested RSS feeds inside the text content other RSS feeds as <![CDATA[ at each level, or since those can't be nested, exponentially doubling the number of escaped entities at each level. I Wanna Be <![CDATA[ -- Sung to the tune of “I Wanna Be Sedated”, with apologies to The Ramones: https://donhopkins.medium.com/i-wanna-be-cdata-3406e14d4f21 https://donhopkins.medium.com/i-wanna-be-cdata-3406e14d4f21

revskill 3y ago

How do you update this list on a daily basis ? Github actions is an option.

outcoldman 3y ago
I am not sure if users of HN will be updating the original HN discussion in general, but yeah, GitHub actions can be an option for this. For now, I just wanted to add those 600+ blogs to my RSS and filter them out slowly if I need to.
- revskill 3y ago
  If possible, could you also add to description for anyone wants to add to your list, to go to original thread and submit ? Currently it seems there're many people fetch from original thread, which makes it ne source of truth, less confusing for anyone to submit.
  - outcoldman 3y ago
    Yeah, the best way is to go back to the original post and submit comment there on top level. Make sure HN recognize that as a correct href and your blog has alternative link to rss/atom. And for now only users with 100+ karma are included. I left the console.log there as well to show which blogs aren't recognized. I am also open for PR. It was just a few hours project to get it going, but if people will find it useful, would be nice to get some tags from the blogs, so it would be possible to extract the list only for specific technology/topics.
    - BeetleB 3y ago
      > Make sure HN recognize that as a correct href and your blog has alternative link to rss/atom. Any details on how to do this? My blog (https://blog.nawaz.org/ https://blog.nawaz.org/) has an RSS feed here (https://blog.nawaz.org/feeds/all.atom.xml https://blog.nawaz.org/feeds/all.atom.xml) but I don't know how to set it up the way you'd need it.

zorrolovsky 3y ago

Thanks for the effort, this is a fantastic resource. I installed 5 RSS reader apps in my Linux Mint machine to test the OPML. 4 of them failed to import the file: Thunderbird, Lifera, Quitrss and another one I forgot the name. Gnome RSS did import the file but it became slow and buggy. I think the file is too long for a typical RSS feed app to process it. Also, there might be some formatting issues a couple apps threw a "incorrect format" error (Thunderbird being one of them). Now trying CPod and giving it time... I hope in 20 mins or so it can work with it. I wonder if web-based RSS readers will work better with the file.

outcoldman 3y ago
I run freshrss and was able to import it there. Do you get any errors while importing it? I believe also this XML maybe not valid. Will regenerate it a few minutes.
mrloop 3y ago
I tried importing at feedbin.com, 524 of 598 imported successfully. The failures being a mixture of not found or connection errors and a couple of invalid URL errors
- outcoldman 3y ago
  I just resubmitted the list, I believe around 500+ there is an invalid XML tag, which is fixed now. So all of them should be valid now. Forgot to do xml escape for the URLs
anthk 3y ago
I had no issues with sfeed, you can get it from https://codemadness.org https://codemadness.org

winrid 3y ago

Oh, did it miss mine because I use rss.xml and not feed.xml? https://blog.winricklabs.com/rss.xml https://blog.winricklabs.com/rss.xml

tommasoamici 3y ago
No, it's because you should include this link tag in the <head> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="XXX" href="https://blog.winricklabs.com/rss.xml">
- winrid 3y ago
  ohmygosh. Thanks, fixed.
- BigglesB 3y ago
  Ohhhh! Thank you! Looks like I need to do this too for mine! (https://biggles.games https://biggles.games)
  - BigglesB 3y ago
    Ah, no, I had the atom feed set up already, just insufficient karma on HN... Oh well!
    - ivolimmen 3y ago
      I just gave you some.. who knows.

tommasoamici 3y ago

>No feed: https://tommasoamici.com https://tommasoamici.com by tommasoamici ( 216 ) no feed found for https://tommasoamici.com https://tommasoamici.com Uh, this made me realize I forgot to add the RSS feed link to the head tag when I recently migrated my blog to Astro, fixed now!

J_cst 3y ago
Hi Tommaso! Your board games collection is quite noticeable!! Bravo!
pricechild 3y ago
Same! Must fix...
victorbjorklund 3y ago
Same haha. This was great to realize what i missed when rolling my own rss.
kevincox 3y ago
For others with similar issues I wrote up some documentation for publishing a feed that can serve as a checklist. https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/ https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/
tiddles 3y ago
Me too, added now!

akhayam 3y ago

Can we commit other people's blogs to this? E.g. I am surprised to not see Julie Zhou's blog in this list--which, I believe, is one of the most influential blogs in the tech product space: https://www.juliezhuo.com/ https://www.juliezhuo.com/.

outcoldman 3y ago
I just parsed everything that was published to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 so if they have not published their blog there, it is not in the list.
- akhayam 3y ago
  Let me send a PR to the project with this addition.

freediver 3y ago

Is there an easy way to make a feed of feeds? So one RSS feed for all these?

KronisLV 3y ago
Just made something like that, though I had to split the feeds based on year, otherwise they'd get close to 100 MB in size: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643086
outcoldman 3y ago
That is good idea as well! That would require me to actually run the server (or github actions) to refresh the RSS feed, maybe something I would do later on.
- freediver 3y ago
  Can you please ping me once this is up? We'd love to expose this feed in search results inside Kagi.
- alanpearce 3y ago
  There are quite common and they're usually called planet <topic>, which might help to find useful resources or software
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  A github action updating a static file is, well, webscale. And cheap/free to host.

the_common_man 3y ago

What's the difference between rss and opml? Just different standards?

outcoldman 3y ago
OPML allows your to export/import the list of RSS/Atom feeds from your RSS reader. So this is a list of 500-600 blogs that people submitted at that HN discussion, that you can import in your RSS reader.
DonHopkins 3y ago
Apparently now RSS stands for "RSS Serves Structures" and OPML stands for "OPML Presents Mere Lists".
- rambambram 3y ago
  Or 'Really Social Sites' and 'Other People's Meaningful Lists'. ;)
kevincox 3y ago
OPML (when used in this context) is basically a list of URLs with a touch of metadata. It is the most common format for importing and exporting lists of feeds to move between feed readers. So you generally don't subscribe to an OPML file, it just provides a list of feeds to subscribe to.

PlumpyGER 3y ago

This is amazing! Thanks for the effort! I missed the original thread, but would be happy when you include my blog as well :) RSS Feed (en): https://backendhance.com/en/blog/index.xml https://backendhance.com/en/blog/index.xml RSS Feed (de): https://backendhance.com/blog/index.xml https://backendhance.com/blog/index.xml

outcoldman 3y ago
Best way to add it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627385

yard2010 3y ago

HN is such a utopic place. I wonder when the inevitable enshitification will happen, and how?

hnzix 3y ago
Fear not, dang is Hodor.
creamyhorror 3y ago
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bennysaurus 3y ago
It has its quirks on occasion and has changed a bit but has been around since 2007 and still going great.

BiggerBio2 3y ago

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Hamuko 3y ago

Looking at how many "https://url.com//feed.xml https://url.com//feed.xml" there are in the list, I have a feeling that the scraping logic needs some work. Is it just concatenating "https://url.com/ https://url.com/" and "/feed.xml"?

RamblingCTO 3y ago
It's also not a good idea. On https://andinfinity.eu/ https://andinfinity.eu/ I have a header for that and it clearly indicates that the rss feed lives at index.html. Standard hugo thing I guess.
outcoldman 3y ago
I was extracting URL from the alternate link in the HEAD of the blog website. The issue is that some people will do "//example.com/feed.rss", some "feed.rss" or "/feed.rss". So I built pretty stupid URL resolving logic, when I just should have used ResolveReference from go runtime. So the last list will fix that.

fomine3 3y ago

This is the first time to see useful OPML lists except export/import usage

hsnice16 3y ago

https://hsnice16.medium.com/ https://hsnice16.medium.com/

altilunium 3y ago

Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16907298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16907298) I hope this list is constantly maintained and updated. Additionally, do you have any recommendations for a good RSS reader that can properly handle this OPML file? I tried using Omea Reader, but it fails to fetch many of the feeds.

saeedesmaili 3y ago
I was able to easily import the list into Inoreader.
- altilunium 3y ago
  > File exceeds maximum allowed number of subscriptions! Your file contains 659 out of 150 maximum allowed subscriptions for your plan. Alright.. I'm gonna build my own RSS reader then. Edit : A kind of "decentralized" social media platform where we post on our respective personal blogs, and we may follow each other by using RSS subscriptions. If HN is one such platform, here's the chronological timeline : :https://gist.github.com/altilunium/c2fcbe1e23aeb1cb9564f2593ea2e936 https://gist.github.com/altilunium/c2fcbe1e23aeb1cb9564f2593... While generating this list, I found at least 80 sites with inaccessible RSS link : https://gist.github.com/altilunium/8319dae345f701a2a1efd015223c2bab https://gist.github.com/altilunium/8319dae345f701a2a1efd0152...
  - lukesingham 3y ago
    Recommend checking out https://github.com/miniflux/v2 https://github.com/miniflux/v2 n.b. I haven't tested importing 600+ feeds!
  - skydhash 3y ago
    freshrss is nice
  - saeedesmaili 3y ago
    Ah, I'm subscribed to their Pro plan, didn't know there is a limitation on this on free plan.

alanpearce 3y ago

Seems like my blog was not even included in the console output, but it has been part of the thread for a while. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596022 I know I don’t have enough karma, but it seems like the log output should have logged something for that. I also wonder if you’d consider account age as an alternative to karma for anti-spam, as I’m a bit of a hardcore lurker here and I highly doubt that I’m the only one.

xoranth 3y ago
(Sorry, I was wrong. See here for the author's reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627385 )
alemanek 3y ago
You are definitely not the only one.
splitbrain 3y ago
Everyone who missed the thread, please consider adding your blog here: https://indieblog.page/suggest https://indieblog.page/suggest

NoboruWataya 3y ago

There seem to be some malformed URLs here? > <outline type="rss" title="ntietz" text="ntietz" xmlUrl="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ntietz.com&#x2F;atom.xml" htmlUrl="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ntietz.com&#x2F;atom.xml"/>

outcoldman 3y ago
Unfortunately that is on u/ntietz, if you look at the https://ntietz.com https://ntietz.com, for some reason they encoded the href ``` <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="https://ntietz.com/atom.xml"> ```
- kevincox 3y ago
  Is that wrong or just unusual? IIRC entity escapes are allowed in attributes.
  - outcoldman 3y ago
    Hard to tell, web is weird :D I contacted the author and they have fixed it!

fluxinflex 3y ago

I've been playing around with Node-RED[1] for a while and thought I would recreate this using Node-RED (also being a big fan of Node-RED). The flow[2], i.e. code, is online to have a look at (editable but not deployable) and the feed[3] is cached and updated every hour or so. It's only a small Heroku server so it might well be down or about to crash, I make no promises! Thanks to the OP for the inspiration, I did take a lot of ideas from the original codebase :) [1]=https://nodered.org https://nodered.org [2]=https://demo.openmindmap.org/omm/#flow/a8d90fc15ab6990b https://demo.openmindmap.org/omm/#flow/a8d90fc15ab6990b [3]=https://blog.openmindmap.org/example/hacker-news-personal-blog-feed.xml https://blog.openmindmap.org/example/hacker-news-personal-bl...

award_ 3y ago

Thanks! I saw the posts and have been making a move to newsblur recently, this will help a lot with content!

yogsototh 3y ago

That's really great! Thank you for that. I saw some people asking for a good RSS reader. Personally I will use elfeed, and I also use elfeed-org so I could import the OPML file and export it into my existing RSS feeds.

outcoldman 3y ago
I use freshrss with combination of Reeder for Mac/iOS.
- Hamuko 3y ago
  My combination of choice too. The fact that FreshRSS can fetch full article contents for truncated RSS feeds is precisely the thing you need in order to make RSS useful today. Not the biggest fan of the UI but this one feature makes the whole thing so fucking good.

surprisetalk 3y ago

I made an alternative list of blogs with links to RSS feeds :) [0] https://blogs.hn https://blogs.hn

thanatropism 3y ago

Yay, I'm listed!

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luxpir 3y ago

Just a thanks for this. Wanted something like this from that list but didn't have time. Loaded it into Feeder from fdroid (cheers to dev if here) and although it took a while, the result is much better than Twitter et al's output. Might add my own blog to the list one of these days if people keep coming back to this as the reference.

JamesonNetworks 3y ago

Ugh, just need 20 more karma. Don't know anything about farming karma for hackernews though. Oh well, maybe I'll have to fork and allow users to specify their min karma to record the blog...

tomrod 3y ago
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outcoldman 3y ago
I will regenerate the list with just 2+ karma. Will let users to figure out what they like or not. 100 was just a random number I used without any idea what is good or bad.
- JamesonNetworks 3y ago
  I dunno, 80 seems like a pretty good cut off, let me just pull this ole ladder up after myself.... jk, Thanks! Love to be featured on the list, very cool idea. Feels like web rings are coming back

outcoldman 3y ago

I just republished the OPML, now close to 1200 blogs!

JamesonNetworks 3y ago
Awesome! Great job on this