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How else would you follow blogs? Do you visit 20+ blogs to see if they've been updated recently?

by hvs 11y ago

peter_l_downs 11y ago
Not parent, but I visit about 6, yeah. What should I be using instead? Setting up RSS feeds seems like a pain.
- berberous 11y ago
  feedly.com is fantastic. Not sure what's painful about setting up an RSS feed. Just paste the URL in once.
  - branchless 11y ago
    Agreed. A worthy successor to google reader. Not having RSS is a pain. I follow blogs that update every couple of months. Do I want to keep checking? Hell no.
    - baruch 11y ago
      I use websec for a few such blogs, it emails me the content and even highlights the changed parts in the page. It's a program I inherited after it was abandoned and did some maintenance on so I'm biased, I haven't updated it for a long while now and for a time even wrote a python alternative since I actually dislike Perl. It can be found at http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/websec/ http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/websec/
- detaro 11y ago
  > Setting up RSS feeds seems like a pain. What seems painful about it for you? IMHO handling feeds is only painful if you have/want to switch readers or if you want to browse old archives. Other than that, you just drop a blog URL in your reader and it gets you the updates.
- kilimchoi 11y ago
  I created http://slicedham.co http://slicedham.co so that you can subscribe to multiple blogs on software dev. It pulls from the blogs listed here, https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
  - cblock811 11y ago
    Less noise than Feedly. I wish it had comments. You should add that :D
- rakoo 11y ago
  You can use Firefox's Live Bookmarks, which get updated every time you open the bookmark. To add an RSS feed, just go the feed page and take a look at what's on top of the page, it should be easy to understand.
- coldtea 11y ago
  The kind of pain you can be over with in 10 minutes, with minimal "click to add" moves...
lifeisstillgood 11y ago
to be honest, and it's not a defensible position now that I write it out loud, but I wait for your blog post to get to HN. I have not yet found people whose writing I find compelling enough and do not either mail me or end up on HN. Possibly I see my inbox as an RSS feed (I subscribe, you send me mails)
- ytdht 11y ago
  if everyone would think like you, almost nothing would end up on HN
nailer 11y ago
They'd have good content upvoted on a news aggregator.

How else would you follow blogs? Do you visit 20+ blogs to see if they've been updated recently?

by hvs 11y ago

How else would you follow blogs? Do you visit 20+ blogs to see if they've been updated recently?

peter_l_downs 11y ago

Not parent, but I visit about 6, yeah. What should I be using instead? Setting up RSS feeds seems like a pain.

berberous 11y ago
feedly.com is fantastic. Not sure what's painful about setting up an RSS feed. Just paste the URL in once.
- branchless 11y ago
  Agreed. A worthy successor to google reader. Not having RSS is a pain. I follow blogs that update every couple of months. Do I want to keep checking? Hell no.
  - baruch 11y ago
    I use websec for a few such blogs, it emails me the content and even highlights the changed parts in the page. It's a program I inherited after it was abandoned and did some maintenance on so I'm biased, I haven't updated it for a long while now and for a time even wrote a python alternative since I actually dislike Perl. It can be found at http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/websec/ http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/websec/
detaro 11y ago
> Setting up RSS feeds seems like a pain. What seems painful about it for you? IMHO handling feeds is only painful if you have/want to switch readers or if you want to browse old archives. Other than that, you just drop a blog URL in your reader and it gets you the updates.
kilimchoi 11y ago
I created http://slicedham.co http://slicedham.co so that you can subscribe to multiple blogs on software dev. It pulls from the blogs listed here, https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
- cblock811 11y ago
  Less noise than Feedly. I wish it had comments. You should add that :D
rakoo 11y ago
You can use Firefox's Live Bookmarks, which get updated every time you open the bookmark. To add an RSS feed, just go the feed page and take a look at what's on top of the page, it should be easy to understand.
coldtea 11y ago
The kind of pain you can be over with in 10 minutes, with minimal "click to add" moves...

lifeisstillgood 11y ago

to be honest, and it's not a defensible position now that I write it out loud, but I wait for your blog post to get to HN. I have not yet found people whose writing I find compelling enough and do not either mail me or end up on HN. Possibly I see my inbox as an RSS feed (I subscribe, you send me mails)

ytdht 11y ago
if everyone would think like you, almost nothing would end up on HN

nailer 11y ago

They'd have good content upvoted on a news aggregator.