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HN seems to be having trouble understanding why this is brilliant. Ignore the parts about JSON/XML. That's irrelevant. Problem: you want an RSS reader, but RS
by AndyKelley 1y ago
HN seems to be having trouble understanding why this is brilliant.
Ignore the parts about JSON/XML. That's irrelevant.
Problem: you want an RSS reader, but RSS readers are annoying because they are stateful and you have to try to sync them across devices. Or, as in the case of Google Reader they may be discontinued. Best case, you have a dependency on a third party application.
Solution: make a web page on your personal site that aggregates links from your RSS feeds.
This is handy because you can now simply access your own web site as an RSS reader. As a side benefit, you can share this page with your friends to help them find nice links, and help promote stuff that you like to search engines.
- ImPostingOnHN 1y agoProblem: you want to read your RSS feeds, but you aren't online. Solution: use something like The Old Reader, which aggregates online, and can also be synced with an app like GReader for offline reading.
- graemep 1y agoWhen are you ever offline these days though?
- gerikson 1y agoWhen travelling by air it's nice to have a bunch of feeds to read.
- OptionOfT 1y agoI have found significant issues with this. Many websites don't offer the full article on their RSS feed. For example Ars Technica. I use miniflux, and it only shows me the first paragraph. Using the Download button in miniflux to download the whole article does nothing.
- nickthegreek 1y agolire ios app can offline sync and can pull the original article instead of the rss stub. i use it with a local freshrss instance that i have accessible via tailscale
- microflash 1y agoYup. I’ve been using Miniflux for this for a while.
- kjkjadksj 1y agoOr you can skip the route to online and just pull to your device at which point its cached for offline.
- PaulHoule 1y agoNever mind the fact that desktop apps for the birds. Microsoft won't even tell you what widget set to use post the failure of Metro, "use Electron" seems about as official as anything else. From day one I planned to use my RSS reader on both desktop computers and a tablet (via Tailscale) and when I got a Meta Quest 3 I found it worked great on that although enlarging touch target to the AAA standard helped a lot.