Ask HN: How do you RSS? There is building momentum around a return to blogging and RSS. Perhaps we're near a tipping point. To give another push: How do _you_ RSS? What are your preferred tools? What are the highlights of your feed these days and why? What practices and workflows bring you value? What considerations should consumers and producers of RSS content be aware of? |
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader...
Flexible and configurable rss/atom feeds from a single binary
But eventually I got fed up and moved to Feedly.
sure Inoreader for android
sure https://bit.ly/37Mtlq2 for browser, perfect to guest it on 2nd monitor, gets updated every hour.
Make your content either plain text or HTML that doesn't require JS.
It has discovery, search, and the ability to add RSS by url address too.
I use it for podcasts, webcomics, and even a comedian's "upcoming gigs" feed.
The only downside of Fraidycat for now is that you can only use it as a browser extension, so it doesn't work on mobile.
[1]: https://miniflux.app/ [2]: https://fraidyc.at/
I have subscribed to Pro for awhile but mostly for search and a few other things. I think they do have feed limits on the free tier.
I’ve tried and used a lot of different readers over the last 20 years but for me the most important is sync of read status across my consumption devices.
I have a lot of feeds across many different categories. HN, lobsters, dotnetkicks and a bunch of other high volume aggregators make up one category. Then I have feeds for startup/VC blogs, engineering blogs, some hyper local stuff, and some other non tech categories I’m involved in (food, wine, etc)
For dealing with sites that don't support RSS, I run a paid service https://kopi.cloud - it allows you to give out anonymous mail addresses to services such as Twitter, Linked-in, Facebook, etc. that can be configured to publish all mail received as an RSS feed.
I dearly miss Google Reader but that's the best replacement (and even better now than Reader was)
Though I would want to try out a local reader that works offline, just because that would be nice.
http://hnapp.com/rss?q=score%3E49%20%7C%20comments%3E39
Have used Newsblur since Google Reader closed and been very happy with it on desktop and Android.
I use Pocket to save articles I want to read later, which makes them available on my Kobo ereader. (I'd switch to Instapaper if my ereader supported it, it seems to handle sites Pocket often chokes on.)
I use it mainly with feedbin. It works most of the time
screenshot: https://snipboard.io/wb27CO.jpg
Though RSS clients in 2020 really need to be scraping the origin website. 50% of my feeds are just one-liner blurbs.
RSS clients that just do RSS feel anachronistic. I've been browsing some other solutions, but the modern client really should be a hub that can turn any website into a feed.
Someone linked Fraidycat which is on the right path, objective-wise.
Here is an export of all the subscriptions (stored with Inoreader): https://gist.github.com/nikitavoloboev/63b5d2418122fcd6949d8...
How I use Reeder: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/blogs
Super easy to set up (PHP + mysql), supports tagging, inline-images, etc. I'm also subscribed to HN through the hnrss site (weird that HN doesn't have its own RSS feed).
Here's a screenshot of my feed:
(as a browser sidebar it really turns the RSS feed reader "builtin limited web view's rendering issues" dilemma around)
and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/
and I can definitely recommend both.
It's under development now - freemium model will be presented soon (among other things). So don't hesitate to try it out, the current "trial" is in fact unlimited now so the whole service is currently entirely for free.
Any feedback will be appreciated!
https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap
Edit: I use Reeder because I can pull in articles in “Reader view” from obnoxious title-only feeds with a single tap. Don’t do those, post full articles or I most likely will keep looking for alternatives to your content...
So with some friends we created an app called Feeds https://github.com/felfele/feeds
It does everything on the phone and there is no ads or tracking whatsoever. You can also mute content with keywords.
It is open-source and currently in open beta for iOS and Android.
(Full disclaimer: I'm a founder, but I truly feel it's the best way to consume RSS if you use 2+ monitors on Windows =) ).
As for producers - depending how noisy your feed is, please keep it long enough to fetch several days' content. It sucks if I don't open up the client and something goes missing pushed out by newer content.
My dashboard there has some 8-ish tabs for different topics I follow, each with ca. 6 feeds.
I can mark each feed as read or a whole tab at once. Each tab has a counter of how much new stuff it has, so I can get a tiny sliver of excitement when there is some news about topic x.
I use theoldreader.com for news since google reader died, so long as I find decent content and an actually rss feed, I tend to add here.
