Ask HN: How many RSS feeds do you follow?

1 points by mynameyeff 1 year ago | 5 comments

I have about ~60 feeds, and curious if I'm somewhere in the happy median.

Anybody out there with 500 feeds?

DeconBlue 1 year ago |

I have 163 current feeds covering a couple dozen topics. I use elfeed on emacs to read and manage the list. The filtering and sorting rules provided by elfeed along with bookmark management under Org-Mode/Org-Roam have solved all of my current needs.

mynameyeff 1 year ago | |

I think you have the most feeds I've ever heard someone having.

Does elfeed work well enough that you don't get anxiety that you might be missing a good article?

JohnFen 1 year ago |

I'm at around 100, but I don't read them directly. I feed them into an RSS aggregator with some filters to sort the feed entries into topic-specific RSS feeds, which are what I read directly.

mynameyeff 1 year ago | |

Whoa... that sounds like a pretty compelling tool... does it use AI to create topic-specific folders?

JohnFen 1 year ago | | |

No, it lets you specify filters based on various things (text matching as well as various metadata).

The only thing I struggle with is filtering out sports-related entries. That turns out to be really hard.

It's tt-rss, btw: https://tt-rss.org/