Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

• NewsBlur

  31 6,722 9.2 Objective-C

  NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.

I pretty much exclusively use RSS, I saw this post from my RSS reader.

I use NewsBlur. It has a free setting, but I like it so much I pay for the subscription.

https://www.newsblur.com/

• Miniflux

  87 6,228 9.7 Go

  Minimalist and opinionated feed reader

  

Yup! I use Miniflux (https://miniflux.app/) and run it into Reeder 5 on my Apple devices.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• hnrss

  68 488 3.5 Go

  Custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News

  

A while ago I tried finding a nice RSS reader that would be detached from the browser, but didn't find too many nice options out there.

But as it turns out, Thunderbird actually has a built in feed reader, which now nicely aggregates both my e-mails, spam e-mails and both news that I might care about as well as the ones I don't. So the experience is very similar to dealing with e-mails - occasional items that I care about amongst others that I don't, even if some of the others are useful as well, and having all of that in the same application makes a lot of sense!

Here's an example: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/05/thunderbird-rss-feeds-g...

I even added an RSS feed to my own blog which can now tell anyone who cares about that stuff about new articles.

In addition, I'm subscribed to some feeds that pull data from HN so I don't miss like 90% of my comment responses, as well as a "Jobs" feed for the "Who's Hiring?" posts.

I currently use this for HN: https://hnrss.github.io/

It feels like RSS is a nice solution for releases of articles and such, I wonder why we don't see too much of it anymore nowadays, though someone would probably claim that it has something to do with ads.

• Aperture

  1 70 0.0 PHP

  Aperture is a Microsub server. Currently in beta. (by aaronpk)

• vienna-rss

  1 1,801 8.0 Objective-C

  Vienna is a free and open-source RSS/Atom newsreader for macOS.

  

Found this post thanks to https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss. There are two kinds of web sites. Those I read through RSS or those I don't know.

• CommaFeed

  18 2,472 9.7 Java

  Google Reader inspired self-hosted RSS reader.

Daily since Google Reader shut down, via self-hosted commafeed (https://github.com/Athou/commafeed).

• feeds

  1 640 0.0 Go

  Discontinued golang rss/atom generator library (by gorilla)

  

For RSS generation: https://github.com/gorilla/feeds (looks stale now)

Was a great learning experience as I was teaching myself Go back then. Dont use it much these days anymore, but its still working, which I find incredible, since I basically havent touched the thing for over 6 years!

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• hackernews_rss

  1 0 0.8 Python

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