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A directory of people who love RSS
- 3dedb728-3f77 3mo agoWould be nice if it was explained how to actually manage a RSS.
- theanonymousone 3mo agoPlease add me
- dgellow 3mo agoHN renders emojis in color?! I’m reading that on an iPad and see a red heart. That’s a first
- minraws 3mo agothat's specific to your os it renders in os emoji colors iirc.
- dgellow 3mo agoI’ve always seen emoji being stripped on HN, so it’s very surprising to see colors for once
- sylware 3mo agoWell, in theory, with proper UTF-8 support you don't need to filter out anything. Unsupported unicode code points are just rendered using a place holder.
- culi 3mo agoThey've always been stripped for me as well. This "emoji" actually appears black for me however. I think the reason its not stripped is because it's actually "U+2665 : BLACK HEART SUIT {valentine}" which predates the emojis. Lots of fonts and OSes will render these older unicode symbols as emojis
- dijit 3mo agothis is the first emoji I see on HN at all, they’re filtered out in comments.
- tom_ 3mo agoI don't remember ever seeing one before either. Will the floodgates now open?
- culi 3mo agoIt's because it's not actually an emoji (though your OS/font might decide to render it like one) https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2665 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2665 It's part of the card suite icons ♠♡♢♣♤♥♦♧
- pkulak 3mo agoNot up to HN, it’s up to your font and font rendering.
- cyptus 3mo agofirst time also! depending on iOS for me.
- clickety_clack 3mo agoI only have a fairly basic understanding of encodings, but is this one by any chance in one of the smaller “standard” character sets and not in the huge Unicode “emoji” set?
- culi 3mo agoyes, exactly: ♠♡♢♣♤♥♦♧
- dgellow 3mo agoFunny, I see the 1st, 4th, 6th and 7th in color. The outlined ones look like standard font characters
- smalltorch 3mo ago♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟ ♔ ♕ ♖ ♗ ♘ ♙ Chess pieces too. I think you could technically play a chess game here pretty easily if you were so inclined.
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- prmoustache 3mo agoIt is not an emoji but a unicode character and HN doesn't render it, your OS does.
- F3nd0 3mo agoIt may not be in the Emoji character block formally, but casually speaking it’s not wrong to call it an emoji, since emoji is basically just a picture character, and this is no less a picture character than what’s formally codified as ‘Emoji’ in the Unicode standard.
- dgellow 3mo agoIn addition to this, what I meant to convey is that it does show exactly like the iOS/iPadOS emojis, in color, with details, etc. Not the non-emoji font unicode character
- edhelas 3mo agoIf you love RSS, embrace Atom 1.0 :) Its the final modern form of RSS.
- CharlesW 3mo agoAtom's problem is that RSS is also the final modern form of RSS.
- graemep 3mo agoWhy is Atom better?
- rpdillon 3mo agoYeah, I've been writing software that provides feeds for RSS, but I exclusively use Atom. It's just a better format. It does create ambiguity when using a site like this because I'm not sure if my sites will qualify as having an RSS 2.0 feed or not.
- culi 3mo agoAtom was killed by podcasts
- culi 3mo agoAtom was killed by podcasts. Tbh RSS 2.0 is good enough
- davewiner 3mo ago
- bolt012 3mo agoI love self hosting my own RSS feed with miniflux!
- poisonborz 3mo agoNowadays I see these sites as nothing else but mining grounds for personal profiling by big tech. Nothing can be a cutesy show-off anymore.
- listic 3mo agoWhy not for small tech and individuals? Is there a law or something? :)
- culi 3mo agoSmall tech and individuals will never be able to take as much advantage of these standards as a multi-billion dollar data center is. 99% of them wouldn't ever even find these feeds
- ymolodtsov 3mo agoWhat does this mean exactly?
- ninjahawk1 3mo agoseeing an emoji in a title on HN really surprised me, I didn’t even know you could do that. Shows how much emotion we use on here lol.
- RattlesnakeJake 3mo agoThe last time I tried to use one in a comment, it got stripped out. I guess that doesn't apply to submission titles.
- dgellow 3mo agoIt's generally does!
- dudefeliciano 3mo agoi guess that only works cause it's a text glyph and not a unicode emoji
- guiambros 3mo agoAnd... it's gone. I guess mods don't like emoji in titles. Can't blame them; it draws a bit more attention than normal.
- basilikum 3mo agoI really need to finish the blog post for my emoji domain. What are mods gonna do when the emoji is literally in the domain?
- mickeyp 3mo agoI love RSS but what I love more than RSS are people who blog about stuff: high concept stuff, day-to-day stuff and just what they did yesterday. I wish people would blog more like in the old days.
- mathgladiator 3mo agoIm going to be doing this again without an agenda. I am recovering from using AI to write thoughts because now I see and hear the patterns which are becoming obnoxious.
- rambambram 3mo agoIndeed! I have a selfbuilt RSS reader and interesting blogs without a feed are just saved as a bookmark basically. I care more about the stories (people call it 'content' nowadays) than about the tech, as long as the tech is open.
- lylo 3mo agoCheck out https://bearblog.dev/discover https://bearblog.dev/discover and https://pagecord.com/spotlight https://pagecord.com/spotlight. Indie blogging is alive and well!
- smarkov 3mo agoMaybe you love being the consumer of RSS feeds, but you certainly wouldn't love being the poor bastard who has to parse them. Even though it's a simple standard that's been around for decades, there are still many sites which serve their feeds with a subtly wrong format. When something doesn't work, users come knocking on your door saying "it works in X reader but not in yours", so now you have to handle that and contribute to the ever growing list of out of spec edge cases that feed readers need to account for.
- paradoxyl 3mo agoWhat sort of punishment should the monopolist google execs who destroyed blogs undergo? A fair punishment might be clawback of all wages and stock options and about five years in a minimum security prison with a permenant felony on their record. I think that's fair.
- colesantiago 3mo agoHow much money do you need for a class action lawsuit on this? I think we should take Google to court over destroying blogs and force them to add back RSS support.
- qudat 3mo agoNice! The entire https://pico.sh https://pico.sh constellation of services are built off rss for notifications. https://pico.sh/feeds https://pico.sh/feeds is an ssh app that is an rss-to-email service.
- jjordan 3mo agoWow, what timing. Not to shill, but I'm also nearly done building a directory of RSS feeds. It stemmed from a frustration of outdated and broken RSS feed collections, and the long slow death of the orange RSS subscribe button across the web. I'm not officially launched yet but I would love some feedback and maybe some of the RSS feeds that land in your directory can be added to mine. https://rssvault.org https://rssvault.org Password is vaultearly644988 Pardon the dust. There's an app tie-in that I'm almost done with too, a widget-first app that shows your RSS feed collections on your phone's home screen. It would really be great if we could start to bring about an RSS renaissance!
- sixtyj 3mo agoNice. I have sneaked in. Suggestions: White or almost white text would be better. Make “Add” button visible on homepage. Make a possibility to batch suggest feeds - a lot of people have opml xml exports from Google Reader so they can give it to you. Processing info would be nice so I as a supplier would immediately know how useful I was. Move explanatory part of RSS to some other part than homepage.
- jjordan 3mo agoHey thanks for taking the time. "White or almost white text would be better." -- There is some white text, headers and headlines mostly. Did you find the lack of contrast difficult to deal with? "Make “Add” button visible on homepage." -- you mean like in the search results? That's a fine idea. "Make a possibility to batch suggest feeds" -- I've been toying with how to handle OPML imports. Definitely a feature to come on the app, but I fear with mass submission on the vault I would be inundated with feeds, and the curation aspect would suffer. I want quality over quantity. But maybe there's a happy middle ground somewhere. "Move explanatory part of RSS to some other part" -- yeah I guess this might be helpful to someone who doesn't know what RSS is, but then they probably aren't visiting anyway lol I'll give it some thought. Appreciate it. Thanks again.
- dd8601fn 3mo agoClaude? (Not judging, just testing my radar)
- pKropotkin 3mo agoI ♥ JSONFeed
- 8organicbits 3mo agoWhat do you like about JSON Feed? One of the downsides I saw when evaluating JSON Feed was that it doesn't use GUIDs, which can cause problems when the same post is present in multiple feeds (I.E. syndication). When I last looked I found that every feed reader supporting JSON feeds also supported RSS/Atom and every website with a JSON feed also had an RSS or Atom feed, so it seems easiest to ignore the JSON Feed format.
- chrismorgan 3mo agoI hate RSS. It’s a bad format that developed organically in all the worst ways, and it should have died completely in favour of Atom by about twenty years ago. I started a draft describing some of the problems that actually matter (thing that can’t be represented reliably in RSS, and such) in <https://chrismorgan.info/atom%3Erss https://chrismorgan.info/atom%3Erss>. And so I wish people would stop calling feeds RSS, because it continues to compound the problem. Let RSS die! More than once I’ve seen people implement RSS feeds, at great pain and often with errors, simply because they hadn’t heard of Atom. (I still need to decide which spec I hate more, RSS or OpenGraph. Hmm… RSS had more excuses for being bad, OpenGraph was just a spectacularly bad thing thrown over the wall by a company that should have known better. I drafted something examining how comprehensively bad it was some years ago, I should put it onto my new site and continue it at some point.)
- dewey 3mo agoHaving structured feeds of any kind is already a niche and much appreciated when it happens. How to call them correctly technically based on some specs is not the hill to die on. We call them RSS feeds, RSS reader apps even if it might be implemented as an Atom feed.
- F3nd0 3mo agoI have trouble seeing how that helps anyone. It’s not like ‘RSS’ is a widespread term the way ‘Word’ or even ‘Mastodon’ are (and even there I’d argue it’s worthwhile to use technically more correct terms). Why not just use ‘news feed’ as the general term? If you don’t care about the protocol in the first place, that’s far more descriptive and correct, no?
- dewey 3mo agoBecause if you say "News feed" people are thinking Facebook or Twitter feed. RSS is widely known as it was already integrated in browsers before as a "RSS" button if the site advertised that in the html head.
- pooploop64 3mo agoSurprisingly cool site. I've seen lots of sites for RSS feeds but they aren't any good because they just dump their mountain of every feed that was ever known to exist, and there's not really any aspects of curation or discovery. RSS feeds themselves embody the exact way I think the internet should work, where the internet itself is the platform. However it's very nice to get some help finding new stuff.
- 8organicbits 3mo agoIt's great to see someone else using FeedLand. While it has some quirks, is has some clever ideas, like that blogroll feature. My favorite part of FeedLand is that you can see who subscribes to a blog and where else they subscribe. This makes RSS feel social, without the algorithmic tricks of traditional social media. Here's the listing for my blog, for example: https://feedland.com/?feedurl=https%3A%2F%2Falexsci.com%2Fblog%2Frss.xml https://feedland.com/?feedurl=https%3A%2F%2Falexsci.com%2Fbl...
- davewiner 3mo agoIt was designed that way, patterned after social media, where you share all that info. I wanted to see if it would work in RSS, and it came out pretty good. We're going to have a new version pretty soon, hooking it up with RSS.chat.
- rambambram 3mo agoThanks for RSS, sir.
- nicole_express 3mo agoI'm always surprised how many people who read my blog do so over RSS. It's probably one of my biggest traffic sources. (Definitely due to my niche topic and small reach, but still) I don't really use RSS myself anymore, though; not since I stopped using Google Reader a few months before they pulled the plug. Wouldn't even know where to start nowadays.
- oalders 3mo agoI'm quite happy with NetNewsWire.
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- dSebastien 3mo agoAdd me there
- bullcitydev 3mo ago"RSS just needed people to reject the big-company hype" is why Im building my own reader. RSS was never the problem; it's the stuff around it: feeds truncated to a teaser, blogs dying and taking their archives with them, cloud readers logging everything you open. I'm building Cove (https://covereader.app https://covereader.app), a native Mac app that works as a permanent local archive. Excerpt-only feeds get the full article fetched and extracted on-device in an offline WebView, stored LZFSE-compressed. It can also read articles aloud with streaming TTS that runs entirely locally, so nothing that you read leaves the machine. No account, no servers. Caveats: Mac-only, no sync yet, will be one-time purchase at 1.0 (beta is free now).
- Godsend69 3mo ago[dead]