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I don't know that vanilla HN is better now. I abandoned it for two main reasons: 1. The Hacker News API I was using was very unreliable and would go down for
by joelgrus 13y ago
I don't know that vanilla HN is better now. I abandoned it for two main reasons:
1. The Hacker News API I was using was very unreliable and would go down for days / weeks at a time, which made the whole pipeline unreliable.
2. I was consuming this as an RSS feed, but when Google Reader shut down I abandoned my RSS habit cold turkey, so now I pretty much only read sites that I visit directly, or things people link to on FB / Twitter.
- icebraining 13y agoWhy did you use the API instead of consuming the HN RSS feed itself? They even offer a big feed for such usage: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
- joelgrus 13y agoHa, mostly because I didn't know about it. The big feed is not all that discoverable.