![]() But I kept using Chrome for the same reasons everyone else started switching to Chrome. Before that, Firefox, Opera, Safari all had RSS as well-supported, central thing and I remember finding it super annoying that Chrome didn't have it when it launched. IMO the big thing that killed RSS ubiquity was Google Chrome not having support for it natively. I'm hoping this will either prompt someone to consider this project, or prompt someone to tell me "It already exists, go here and here and run this docker command to install it."Īs other's pointed out, RSS is still here if you want to use it. Then it would be really easy to self-host an RSS reader or something. for instance, S3 has also become a near universal API, so backups using it have gotten to be easy but they can still be done without vendor lockin. We're so, so much closer to being able to do this nowadays than we used to be. (Branching out to other services over time or something.) Plus setting up proper backups would be nice. Something that managed all this better wouldn't be too hard, and could just be slammed up on a small AWS instance or something would be easy. But as I'm struggling right now a bit to bring up a Bitwarden server, there's still pain around setting up the forwards properly and getting the Let's Encrypt certificate. It seems like a project that would do that in terms of docker-compose files could be created for much less effort, and maybe not quite all the pretty-shiny they had. So they burned tons of effort on sandboxing, and wrapping existing applications into their sandbox, and it was just too hard to port things into their world to get very many applications running. Sandstorm, for those who don't know, was basically an attempt to make self hosting really viable, but was tragically ahead of its time because it predated Docker. I'm starting to wonder where "Sandstorm 2.0" is. Having self-hosted for a long time, I find it's getting easier in a lot of ways what with Docker and all. Possibly the only bugbear I have around the RSS ecosystem these days is that some authors don't include the full content in the RSS feed - which makes offline and mobile consumption more difficult / annoying - I suspect that in some cases it's a result of default choices - and in others it's a deliberate decision as a trade off against improved analysis a site gets from a browser hit. RSS is still heavily used for information I find really professionally useful (IT) - but I don't know about other industries. For example, i wouldn't use a RSS feed of Hacker News because I probably only look at 1 in 10 articles on it. On the aggregator front, I try to avoid anything that's too noisy (low signal to noise) - and I definitely minimise subscribing to news sites as the volume is just too high (I tried rss subscribing to The Verge when it was new, but there were too many articles I don't read). In many respects Moderate post volume (quality over quantity) is something I find more useful in what I choose. ![]() Like the linked article discusses here, it's no longer possible to easily get a feed from major social media sources - which limits the usefulness of RSS from a purely social perspective (but I've never tried to use it that way) - but if you treat it as a personally curated source of sporadic content, then it's great. I still get around 60 or so new items per day, and probably skim 20, read 10 in detail, and mark the rest as read. Just checking my OPML, I have around 600 sites (more than a few are likely no longer posting) in my current reader - accumulated over the last 20 years or so - that I've found specifically interesting (mostly professionally, and a few hobby based ones as well). Net Morning Brew or Michael Tsai ) that link articles - again, if the articles are good, or I notice I've visited the site before, I'll sometimes add it to my feed list. Not the OP, but these days I find new things (mostly blogs) through four different mechanisms:ġ - Hacker News - If there's an interesting article linked, then I'll consider adding the site to my feed (using feedbin since the great Google Reader apocalypse).Ģ - Blog referrals - Sometimes existing feed items will link to other articles sites (sourced from, similar problem, etc) and I'll sometimes add those sites.ģ - / Organic - If I'm investigating a particular problem/issue/topic and find a good blog, then I'll add it to my feed.Ĥ - Topic Specific Aggregators - in some cases there are people that produce topic specific post summaries (such as the.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |