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what is old is new again?
by perrohunter 5mo ago
what is old is new again?
- hnlmorg 5mo agoNo, this is just old. Pity though. RSS / Atom was a fantastic concept and it’s a real pity big tech killed them off.
- rambambram 5mo agoNothing is killed. It still exists, it's an open protocol after all. And I choose to use it, it's pretty fun to calmly follow around 2000 feeds from - mostly - blogs from HN. And cars... I need my car blogs.
- geodel 5mo agoAgreed. That nowadays people or even big companies find it outside their core competency to host their blog, have atom/RSS feeds is not because big tech killing it.
- ushimitsudoki 5mo ago[dead]
- holistio 5mo agoIs there any platform for sharing what feeds we follow? Would love to discover some new blogs.
- manuelmoreale 5mo agoClosest thing I can think of is this one: https://feedland.org https://feedland.org Or you create a blog for yourself and you make a blogroll. As for discovering new blogs, couple of options but there are more out there: https://ooh.directory https://ooh.directory, https://blogroll.org/ https://blogroll.org/
- rambambram 5mo agoWell, my guess is that OPML is underrated. And I understand that, because it's so different from the social media that we are used to. On my homepage (link in bio) you can find all the feeds that I follow, available as an OPML file. It might be of interest to you, it might not (probably a lot of blogs you know from here, at least half of my 2000 feeds). One 'dream' of me is to have OPML be the discovery-glue between all kinds of individual personal websites and blogs. But this requires critical mass to have enough to discover and explore, and it needs some fun/interesting software way to do that.
- darreninthenet 5mo agoHow do you curate and keep on top of so many feeds? I have ~10 on my RSS reader and I sometimes have trouble keeping up if I have a couple of busy days
- rambambram 5mo agoGood question! I don't follow all the news and updates from each and every feed. At the bottom of this page you can see the UI: https://www.heyhomepage.com/?link=32&title=Screenshots https://www.heyhomepage.com/?link=32&title=Screenshots Basically, I get to see the latest post from a random feed. Nothing else. No lists of unread new posts from all the feeds. If I like the title and short summary, I click through to the website or blog itself where I can read the whole thing. There's no FOMO this way, or an information overload. Just one post a time. Because the whole list of feeds is curated by myself, I know that everything is at least a little interesting. I even made a category with Youtube channels that I like, so I can skip their annoying recommended videos algo. Next to this basic functionality, I made what I call 'Newspapers'. These are certain topics with a bunch of selected feeds attached, they get checked automatically in the background. When the Newspaper has enough articles, I see a new Newspaper appear. Otherwise it might take months before a feed is shown in the random selection.
- bawolff 5mo agoMeh. Big tech didnt kill it off, it was already dead at that point. Sometimes things just arent popular no matter how much we might want it to be.
- pletnes 5mo agoLots of sites publish outages, incidents, downtime over RSS/atom. Works great for monitoring, post them into slack with a bot and you can start a discussion thread about that incident where you first hear about it.