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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?
- angelbar 6y agoWhen google shutdown its rss service, I switch to https://protopage.com https://protopage.com ... its really good
- chenxiaolong 6y agoI use the Feedly web UI on desktop and NetNewsWire (which is open source) on iOS. I'm not a huge fan of the Feedly web UI because it doesn't support scraping the source page for the full article text. Too many of my RSS feeds only include the first paragraph or even just the subtitle.
- Grae 6y agoPersonal pain point: Math seems to be a growing topic on the web and tools like MathJax are a popular tool for talking about Math. But (most? all?) RSS readers won't render MathJax. Does anyone have a simple and effective way to handle display issues like that?
- rbinv 6y agoThat won't work unless you embed scripts into the RSS and run those (which kind of defeats the point of "really simple syndication" and would lead to JS-heavy monstrosities).
- postit 6y agoThere's a bookmarklet that renders Tex/LaTeX, MathML and AsciiMathML notation on pages dynamically using the MathJax. I use it mainly with feedbin. It works most of the time https://www.checkmyworking.com/misc/mathjax-bookmarklet/ https://www.checkmyworking.com/misc/mathjax-bookmarklet/
- chuckgreenman 6y agoIsn't there a way to default back to a rendered image if MathJax isn't supported?
- vehemenz 6y agoYou could CDATA a MathJax-produced SVG, but I don't know how well that would be supported in RSS readers. I doubt accessibility extensions would work correctly either.
- s9w 6y agoInoreader has always been great, better than google reader that everyone is mourning. I've been using it for 7 years now. Today I use it mostly for Github commit feeds actually.
- gpanders 6y agoI self host Miniflux [1] and am really happy with it, although recently I have moved toward using Fraidycat [2]. I really like the way that Fraidycat groups things by author, whereas traditional RSS readers just give you a feed. This enables me to follow high-volume publishers (such as Marginal Revolution) without the anxiety of seeing the Unread count in my reader creep ever higher. 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/ https://miniflux.app/ [2]: https://fraidyc.at/ https://fraidyc.at/
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- obarthelemy 6y agoFirefox/Android accept all desktop extensions.
- unicornporn 6y ago...and it's probably the most important reason I wont buy an iPhone.
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- hprotagonist 6y agoi switched to feedly when google reader died, and carried on as normal.
- mantas 6y agoVienna RSS client for Mac does all what I need. Feeds with simple organising. Flagging interesting articles. Good enough search. 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.
- markandrewj 6y agoAnyone have recommendations for an Android RSS reader?
- karlicoss 6y agoI like FeedMe -- clean and functional interface, supports offline caching, works with common RSS providers too (e.g. I use it with Feedbin) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.feedme https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.fee...
- staffordrj 6y agoI just started using Flym and I love it. You can also install it from F-Droid.
- drdeadringer 6y agoPodcast Addict. Free with ads, chump change to make the ads go away. 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.
- geoffhill 6y agoI use NewsBlur in Firefox and via the Android app, and I'm very happy with it.
- haunter 6y ago+1 for Newsblur, also open source! https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur I dearly miss Google Reader but that's the best replacement (and even better now than Reader was)
- tomjen3 6y agoI came to this post through newsblur, which does a decent job on sites that doesn't give a full feed. Though I would want to try out a local reader that works offline, just because that would be nice.
- ehPReth 6y agoI’ve been using rss2email from https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email — seems to works well for my needs
- vroomik 6y agoMoved to inoreader - free tier for up to 150 feeds, works on mobile too
- nickthegreek 6y agoAnother vote for inoreader. I glady pay inoreader at a higher level than features that I need in order to help ensure I never go thru a google reader debacle again. Inoreader also integrates in facebook pages, twitter accounts and youtube subscriptions to your RSS list.
- iliaznk 6y agoSecond that!
- sys_64738 6y agoThirded!
- fxj 6y agoI got a pro subscription and I read all my news feeds and twitter through it. I am willing to pay 50 euros per year for such a great service. I also like the android and ios apps which do a great jobs reading news on mobile devices.
- miluoshi 6y agoFourded!
- TwoNineA 6y agoSelf host FreshRSS and use Reeder on iOS.
- vandyswa 6y agoI host my own tt-rss, and the install FeedMonkey (via my own sources.vsta.org) which provides a very nice viewer.
- disposekinetics 6y agoI'm fond of FreshRSS. It almost fills the void left by Google Reader.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoI recently got back into RSS and have been using (free) NetNewsWire on macOS/AppStore (https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire). 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.
- neonate 6y agoI specifically installed Waterfox so I could keep using SageRSS. It's ancient, but I've never found anything else that comes close to being as good. People have made modern copies, but they got subtle things like font sizes and preview windows wrong so I found that they all fell in an uncanny valley for me.
- nikivi 6y agoI read most blogs with Reeder (over 1000 blogs). Top blogs are in 1. folder, the rest are in 2. folder. Here is an export of all the subscriptions (stored with Inoreader): https://gist.github.com/nikitavoloboev/63b5d2418122fcd6949d854dc5080689 https://gist.github.com/nikitavoloboev/63b5d2418122fcd6949d8... How I use Reeder: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/blogs https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/blogs
- jnamaya 6y agoI use Tiny Tiny RSS https://tt-rss.org/ https://tt-rss.org/ screenshot: https://snipboard.io/wb27CO.jpg https://snipboard.io/wb27CO.jpg
- ragebol 6y agoI use netvibes.com and have been for I don't know how long. 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.
- agazso 6y agoAfter I stopped using FB I missed a mobile news reader app that works without having to install a server or create an account. So with some friends we created an app called Feeds https://github.com/felfele/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.
- mdrachuk 6y agoReeder + Feedbin
- daledavies 6y agoI hosted Tiny Tiny RSS myself for years after Google Reader closed, I must say it was very stable and hardly ever needed intervention. But eventually I got fed up and moved to Feedly.
- tmarman 6y agoI have been using Feedly since Google Reader was shut down. Use it across iPhone, iPad and web. I also use it to capture other articles and bookmarks on my boards. 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)
- obarthelemy 6y agoI do most of my browsing from RSS. I've got a handful of sites in my browser's bookmarks, and about 40 in my RSS feed. I've got Feedly Pro, and use both the Windows Web client and a few different apps on Android (I'm trying to wean myself of gReader Pro, but the thing still works after 5+ yrs w/o updates, and is just perfect). I dismiss 90% of RSS items because dupes or not interested (there's a reason those sites didn't make my bookmarks). I might dismiss a bit less is there was a snooze option, but there isn't. I'll do most of my reading in-app, and switch to the browser only if I want to read or add to the comments. My main issue currently is sites getting borked by google's "html simplifier" (whatever they call it). The thing I love most aside caching + offline reading is Firefox Andoird ability to open pages in the background, so I can sift thourgh my RSS items, dismiss 90%, and open a few pages that I'll get to once I'm done cleaning up my RSS feed and have time.
- biermic 6y agoNewsboat (a currently maintained fork of Newsbeuter). It's a wonderful easy to use commandline RSS reader. https://newsboat.org https://newsboat.org
- dave333 6y agoGoogle reader -> Digg reader -> Inoreader free version. BBC and NYT news feeds, Business Insider and Hacker News for biz and tech respectively.
- winrid 6y agoI use "Reader" on Android. Make your content either plain text or HTML that doesn't require JS.
- timbit42 6y agoQuiteRSS on Linux
- ctas 6y agoI'm using my self-built reader called Feedist (not public) . It's extremely lightweight and built in boring PHP. The most important feature to me is the personal recommendation page which shows me the top 50 new posts in my subscribed feeds based on my previous reading behavior. It uses almost the same scoring algorithm as HN behind the scenes. It's so accurate and saves me a ton of time. Subscribing to a lot of feeds creates a lot of noise and this makes it easier to find content I might enjoy.
- eiro 6y agoi really like https://newsboat.org/ https://newsboat.org/. very few keystrokes to remember, super fast, ~/.newsboat/urls is a simple file with 1 feed a line.
- animesh 6y agoFeedbro addon for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader...
- captn3m0 6y agoReeder on iPhone + MiniFlux, like many people here.
- hitchnsmile 6y agoSelf hosting https://github.com/lawzava/mynews https://github.com/lawzava/mynews Flexible and configurable rss/atom feeds from a single binary
- fpadilha 6y agoIf you are looking for something more robust, I would recommend Fluxonaut (https://fluxonaut.com https://fluxonaut.com). It's only for Windows and is still in beta but you can mix RSS, Twitter and YouTube quite nicely through multiple screens! (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 =) ).
- onyva 6y agoI use fieryfeeds on iOS. It integrates with Nextcloud news and Pocket and is quite featurefull. I moved most of my reading off twitter which I used to access with Tweetbot.
- miteyironpaw 6y agoI run an instance of Selfoss. I found this thread because selfoss polls hackernews via https://hnrss.org/frontpage?count=1 https://hnrss.org/frontpage?count=1
- nacs 6y agoSame here. I tried tiny-rss and a few others and settled on (self-hosted) Selfoss. 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: https://thumbsnap.com/f/4AcGkWqu https://thumbsnap.com/f/4AcGkWqu
- marczellm 6y agoI use both https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly-notifier/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly-notifi... (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/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/ and I can definitely recommend both.
- bastard_op 6y agoHardest part these days is finding the rss feed. It used to be $url/rss, and gold. Then people moved on to fakebook and twitting, and it was forgotten. 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.
- rcarmo 6y agoReeder on iOS and Feedly as a back-end. I don’t read news any other way, although I maintained this for a while: https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap 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...
- sys_64738 6y agoMy solution for sites that don't offer RSS is to ignore those sites.
- rp00 6y agoPaid inoreader
- devinegan 6y agoTiny Tiny RSS self hosted. tiny Reader for iOS. There is an open source Android app as well.
- anotherevan 6y agoMost importantly: http://hnapp.com/ http://hnapp.com/ to produce an RSS feed for Hacker News. I use a feed that returns anything reaching a score of 50 or gets 40 or more comments. http://hnapp.com/rss?q=score%3E49%20%7C%20comments%3E39 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. https://www.newsblur.com/ https://www.newsblur.com/ 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.)
- Shorn 6y agoWhen Google reader shut down I switched to, and now pay for, https://inoreader.com https://inoreader.com for reading (they have a free ad-supported tier or paid tiers). The HTML and iOS browsing experience is excellent. For dealing with sites that don't support RSS, I run a paid service https://kopi.cloud 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.
- lookupthere 6y agoInoreader is wonderful.
- benrapscallion 6y agoHow’s your website kopi.cloud different from kill-the-newsletter.com?
- Shorn 6y agoKopi is more broad, it's primarily about handing out burner addresses after you create a "forwarder". You don't have to visit Kopi each time you want to use a new address. You can reply to messages sent via a forwarder, but the sender still won't know your real address. You can block individual burner address with a single click if a sender leaks it / starts abusing it.
- moltar 6y agoI use Feedly with Reeder app.
- rwbhn 6y agoReading this via Feedly on Android. For audio podcasts when I'm biking I use BeyondPod Pro [1] - tried a bunch of options, it was the only one I found which reliably downloads episodes while on wifi and plays them with no issue while offline. [1] http://www.beyondpod.mobi/android/index.htm http://www.beyondpod.mobi/android/index.htm
- sebastian65 6y agoRecently I've created https://rosselo.com https://rosselo.com, which provides useful and elegant news dashboard. Works in browser on every device. 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!
- newtronic 6y agoI use Feedbin in a browser on a computer, and in an app on phone and iPad.
- pipiscrew 6y agothe mother of all parsers https://github.com/feedjira/feedjira https://github.com/feedjira/feedjira sure Inoreader for android sure https://bit.ly/37Mtlq2 https://bit.ly/37Mtlq2 for browser, perfect to guest it on 2nd monitor, gets updated every hour.