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I was thinking more of a discovery problem like how will you find independent blogs that are worth adding to your rss feed ? hackernews is just one option which
by arromatic 3y ago
I was thinking more of a discovery problem like how will you find independent blogs that are worth adding to your rss feed ? hackernews is just one option which has very few blogs and most are tech related. Which is why i think the webrings will solve as the the websites list will be curated
- PaulHoule 3y agoYOShInOn fundamentally changes the relationship with RSS feeds in that I don't read 100% of what it ingests. In the last run (I do one every two and half days on average, I think) it ingested 7000 articles and sampled 300 to show me. That's a bit less than 5%. I have screens that let me see what came from particular feed, things that fall into automatically generated clusters (roughly "sports", "ukraine war", "neural networks", ...) and that the it thinks y'all (Hacker News readers) will upvote or comment on. The main screen looks like TikTok for text, it shows me one article at a time that I can thumbs up or thumbs down. Even in 2001 I was saying that "Failing RSS readers keep failing with the same failing user interfaces that always fail..." in particular anything with a "mark as read" button is putting an undue burden on the user, there is nothing inspiring about interfaces that look like a mail reader or a USENET reader or that have 20 boxes with a list of items in them for 20 different feeds. Personally I want to subscribe to RSS feeds even if they aren't 100% great because my system does a very good job of filtering good stuff to the top so I am happy to subscribe first and discover later.