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Problems with exposing RSS feeds: - People do not feel the need to expose it as more and more RSS clients are killed, it is not often used feature - I think t
by renegat0x0 3y ago
Problems with exposing RSS feeds:
- People do not feel the need to expose it as more and more RSS clients are killed, it is not often used feature
- I think that RSS client are not killed because it is a faulty standard. It is a problem with deliverability. There is no state of the art RSS client. Most of RSS clients are not feature-rich, even thunderbird. People also do not know how to manage RSS feeds, how to obtain them
- I think that people use social media, link aggregators to see 'what's new', not RSS feeds
- People that self host do not focus on details, often even not properly configure their pages. OG:fields are not set, page title is not explanatory, weird redirects are used with invalid HTTP statuses, javascript page loading. If it is a problem with these basics, then other things are treated even worse, RSS included
- RSS feeds are often even not named properly. Naming "Blog", or "Title", or "Home" your RSS feed, or page is erroneous, in the same manner that you would not entitle a Book you wrote "My Book"
RSS readers I am aware of:
- https://newsboat.org/ https://newsboat.org/
- https://www.rssbrain.com/ https://www.rssbrain.com/
- https://theoldreader.com/ https://theoldreader.com/
- https://www.freshrss.org/ https://www.freshrss.org/
- https://readwise.io/read https://readwise.io/read
- thunderbird
- https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive - RSS reader, web scraper, which I wrote