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There are also custom feeds with more features available from https://hnrss.github.io/
One of those feeds is how I came across this post.
Google has shut down a bunch of services: https://killedbygoogle.com/
I wouldn't use them as a standard for keeping services up.
- Does anyone have some ideas/sources for bookmark scripts? I found [2], but I am not really sure what it does.
[1]:https://newsboat.org/
I have a private Discord server that acts as an RSS reader via MonitoRSS[1]. It works great because Discord has really good notification configuration. Some feeds I want to know about immediately, others I only want to see when I check the news, and because I can mute channels I can let my friends use it as well. They set up their own feeds and I don't have to be alerted to it but I can go look if I'm interested in what they're reading lately.
All that is to say that RSS still works. What's missing is the original content creators of the early RSS world. Nowadays, most people create small, easy-to-write, easy-to-consume content in one of the walled gardens since the notifications, interactions, and network are all included for them.
[1]: https://monitorss.xyz/
As simcop2387 mentioned, Hacker News’ RSS feed is here → https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
Unfortunately, it only includes the title and the submission’s link, no content, which makes it a bit useless if your intension is to actually read the articles and not just the titles, which you can already do by visiting the home page.
Some people have created complementary RSS feeds like this → https://github.com/cixtor/rssfeed#readme
Very nice to see the author uses Flarum (https://flarum.org) an open-source forum software to power his blog. Very innovative use!
We also use Flarum to power our user feedback site for Orion browser https://orionfeedback.org another example of Flarum's ability to adopt to different use cases.
I use Dokku for that (I can share my Bitwarden repo if you want, the entire thing is four lines or something). I also made https://gitlab.com/stavros/harbormaster for things that weren't so "web server -> app -> database" and love it.
I miss RSS, too, or more accurately, I miss how easy it used to be. Since my browser removed the two-click feature for sending a site's feed URL to my RSS reader, I now do a bit more manual work to find the URL myself.
Twitter lost its RSS support, but Nitter mirrors Twitter and provides RSS links. Example: https://nitter.net/eff/rss
Reddit provides RSS for most listings, including search results. All you have to do is append .rss to the path part of the URL. Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/hackernews/search.rss?q=web&restric...
GitHub provides Atom feeds in various places. Example: https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/releases.atom
When I don't know if a site offers a syndication URL, I fall back to viewing the page source, and searching for these telltale strings:
RSS feeds have become my one and only way to consume the web and subscribe to people, websites and various things on the web.
Tiny Tiny RSS[0] is an addictive RSS reader with tons of options to sort, manipulate, filter in/out, etc. RSS entries. Feed Preview[1] is a must-have Firefox add-on for finding available feeds on websites (and previewing them).
All alternative front-ends to YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. provide feeds to subscribe to people like Invidious[2], nitter[3], Bibliogram[4], etc. (large list of alternative front-ends here [5]).
Fortunately, Github and Reddit, still natively support RSS feeds.
As others have mentioned, WordPress-based websites natively include RSS feeds for the whole website, by category, for comments of a particular post, etc. This is much better than crappy newsletters.
Regarding newsletters, when it's the only option, I use Mailnesia[6] to turn an inbox into an RSS feed.
Speaking of bridges, RSS-Bridge[7] makes feeds available to hundreds of websites through community plugins.
Feed43 [8] is also a great tool to force an ordinary page to be available as an RSS feed.
SearX [9], a metasearch engine, turns into a very powerful tool to watch for something on the whole web with advanced search functions and results available as RSS feeds. This is better than many dedicated tools, imo.
Anyway, I don't think RSS feeds are missing or even dying. But they are definitely a relic of the good old days, when Aaron Swartz was around, and unfortunately reserved for people who are looking for them or are curious enough to dive into that world.
One thing is for sure though: if they disappear, I'm out.
[0] https://tt-rss.org