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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
> Publishers would care more about RSS if they didn't have to sacrifice things they cared about What sacrifice are you talking about? For instance, Substack supports RSS, even for paid items. They just only include the teaser portio
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
You have RSS which is nice, however, it is not advertised in the index html. Please see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Link_types It is just a meta tag that will make every feed reade
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Reaching the audience that value their privacy is a good incentive, at least for most personal bloggers. I don't care who is reading my blog but I do want to make the process as hassle free as possible.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
> no one can agree on how to put an image in a RSS feed item There is, if you put a image at the enclosure tag, most feed readers will recognize that. https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html#ltenclosuregtSu
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I don't think RSS is the right place for this kind of interaction. There are many ways to include commenting such as HN, or (shameless plug) https://roastidio.us
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
> RSS is one-way publishing; there is no way for content creators and their audience to interact I consider this as the main strength of RSS; respecting the privacy of the audience. If the audience want to interact they can still choose
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
If you need realtime update, then RSS is probably not the right tool. For polling, I currently do the following: * with `HTTP 304: not modified` result, I'll come back in 60 minutes * if there is any update, I'll come back in 4 ho
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I was trying to sign on with github, then it asked for way more privileges than I am comfortable to give, so I bailed.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I agree OpenLDAP is not for the casual users. However, storing config in the LDAP itself is a strength; almost everything can be reconfigured at the run time, using the standard LDAP tool.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
FYI, I have a lint tool to check the consistency between the blog homepage / blog posts to the blog feed. The alternate link is the first step. https://roastidio.us/lint
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
So it is just alternate link meta then a bunch of heuristics for well known websites? IMHO, everyone should just do the alternate link meta and save everyone else the trouble. Once you made a special rule for someone big, you are just encou
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Any web application worth their salt has shareable URL, so I am not getting your point.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I do this all the time. I have permanent SSH tunnels from my home pc to my VPS and a reverse proxy on my VPS, so I have super fast access to my home apps at home and tolerable access to the same apps when I am outside. Of course, you need t
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I suggest you to add social logins, to lower the bar of trying out.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Of course there is no objective way. TikTok is more optimized for silly, effortless entertainment, and Twitter is more optimized for opinion leaders to reach out the maximum number of recipients. They all have a purpose.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
For time wasting entertainment, TikTok is better than Twitter.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
For private stuff I only bookmark locally. For non-private stuff I use https://roastidio.us
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
People on HN are not idiots. Users, in a broad sense, are. There are people searching for wordle in the app store for Christ's sake.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I understand that nitter serve a purpose. However, for OP who is trying to crawl high quality content such as blogs and news automatically, nitter is a nightmare.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
CMSs are not bad. Worse are the various forums. But the worst is nitter.net, which basically re-exposed the cesspool of twitter in RSS.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
For the few websites that I need to do frequent posting, I just write a bookmarklet for each. It is one line of javascript. This can be useful for people that don't want/don't know to code though.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I think what you miss is the time when only the intelligent and sensible <10% of the population are on-line. There was no social network, so Usenet was where the cool kids hanged out. Now that everyone is on-line, and dragged 99% of the
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Of course you can link to anything; I was talking about extracting useful information in a program for a richer link preview. A tweet is just a short text or a picture; it is trivial for twitter to have title, og:description, and og:image i
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Linking to twitter is horrible too. Try this in your terminal: > curl https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1532710931590959104 There is nothing of value in the static part of the html. For fuck's sake, ther
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
With rubygems.org or hex.pm, the package maintainer must explicitly publish a package to the registry. The registry never poll the original source, so the whole issue would not exist in the first place. I found Go's package registry ve
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I'd suggest you to write some explanation on what do you want to achieve. Also, you may want to implement social login so it would be easier for people to try.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
There are several similar tools (slack with a twist) emerged in the last couple of years. * quill.chat Slack but more social. bought by twitter and shut down. WTF? * geneva.com. Slack with a feminine touch? * twist.com. half way between ema
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Nice idea. How do you avoid the copyright infringement problem? Most of the textbooks do not allow to be posted online.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Both RSS2 and Atom has official validators. I also have a linter here: https://roastidio.us/lint That check the metadata consistency between the blog and the feed.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I took a similar approach as radiopaper: everything you say is pre-banned, and only the person you talked to has the sole discretion to lift the ban. during the ban you cannot post again to the same person on the same topic. The other party

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