The View from RSS

cadamsdotcom

I’d like to use this space to praise everyone involved in creating and keeping NetNewsWire alive. I (re)discovered RSS a few months ago via NetNewsWire, and it’s so calming and empowering to curate one’s own feed. Rumors of RSS’ death are greatly exaggerated.

rambambram

Nice! I'm also around 2000 feeds in my reader, carefully selected over a couple of years. Only difference: I always click through to the website to read an article. Now in the process of slowly making RSS my only social feed. Have a hard time of leaving Youtube, but once I embedded the videos of the channels I follow in my RSS reader I see a way of not getting annoyed by the recommendation algorithm on their website anymore.

nokya

And a little thought to Aaron. We still miss you.

squeegmeister

I’ve always thought RSS seemed cool. Hope it has a renaissance with people leaving social media

krembo

I'd like to share a preview of my RSS (&other sources) feed aggregator: https://aggly.com (designed to look better on desktops) It’s still a work in progress, so treat this as an early preview before I submit it to Show HN. Feedback and criticism are welcome.

jurakovic

I love RSS but I didn't find good enough online reader that can be customized to my liking, so I built my own: https://jurakovic.github.io/dev-links/news/ I have many more ideas, but I don't have that much free time to implement all of it (even with Claude Code). But it serves me very well for now

elashri

I think the space of RSS feed readers and aggregators are very rich already. The pain point for ordinary users is to have easy way to generate RSS feeds for websites that don't provide organic one. There are few options but mostly proprietary and expensive. And no normal person will want to play the CSS tricks to extract feed that something like FreshRSS support.

nickthegreek

Current setup is freshrss running in a proxmox lxc on prem + tailscale. Big fan of the lire iOS app for interacting on mobile and use the freshrss webui on desktop. killthenewsletter helps patch in some email stuff too. RSS and NNTP are 2 technologies that have been with me for decades and you are gonna have to pry them from me.

lawgimenez

Also built my own rss reader https://gmnz.xyz/projects/ember-feed/ with an emphasis on code block themes because I mostly follow engineering and developer blogs.

loughnane

Self-hosted miniflux is great.

outlore

I saw Current Reader (no affiliation) posted on the web a couple days ago. It seems like a nice way to keep up to date with many hundreds of feeds by giving them different priorities, where for example a low priority feed may disappear from view quicker than a higher priority one. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/current-reader/id6758530974 I used to use Reeder pretty religiously but as websites started to lock down their feeds and charge subscriptions, it became less useful over time. As readership declines, publishers are rightly concerned to protect their remaining revenue by charging subscriptions. I would love for a new protocol to exist which could compensate providers appropriately and allow for consumer choice in reading with whatever app

ece

I've been using Flare on f-droid, which integrates RSS and fedi, it's simple but pretty good.