I'm pleased to see renewed interest in RSS (web feeds generally). But my concern is that, for first time users, the onboarding process is too complex. There are too many unexplained steps, and the benefits are unclear.<p>A plug for my own answer to this:<p>I recently launched <a href="https://aboutfeeds.com" rel="nofollow">https://aboutfeeds.com</a> -- a one pager "getting started" guide aimed at first-time users of web feeds/RSS. The goal is to have it linked next to every "RSS subscribe" button out there.
I just love that Asian developers finally 'discovered' the English speaking FOSS community.<p>A lot of the software I use and contribute to has gained many contributors from China, Singapore and Japan through the last 1-2 years.<p>It really warms my heart to see that FOSS knows less and less borders :)
I’m curious: why is this using RSS? RSS is uniformly technically inferior to Atom, and all feed reader apps that I know of support Atom, and libraries are available for both (some RSS-only, some Atom-only, some general). The only place I’d ever use RSS now is podcast feeds, because podcast feeds haven’t caught up up with 2007 yet.
Maybe someone else will benefit from my experience as well: I recently wanted to create an RSS feed for <a href="https://www.apmreports.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.apmreports.org/</a> as they didn't seem to offer one, nor did Feedly (my preferred RSS reader) manage to find one that was up-to-date. I ended up using <a href="http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/" rel="nofollow">http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/</a> instead because there wasn't an existing route in RSSHub that I could use, and it didn't seem trivial to set one up for this particular case; I hope someone will prove me wrong though.<p>With the Feed Creator feed URL I'm not able to see the content within Feedly (it just says "no content"), but it does relay new posts to me, which I can open directly, and it was amazingly quick to get a functional feed URL, so I'm very happy nonetheless.
This is interesting, I was building something similar for my personal use case a while ago but there I have to build a plugin for each website I want to support which is not ideal (<a href="https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge</a>). I'll have to check it out, community maintained integrations make a lot more sense.
Nice! I am excited by this. I decided to go back to trying RSS after a blogger I enjoy got deplatformed from where I usually found their stuff. I installed a firefox rss reader and it was fine. But today after seeing this I realized I wanted more centralized RSS to have it synced on difference devices. So I went and installed FreshRSS over the past 30 mins on my webserver, added a MariaSQL db and user, added a Apache subdomain, directed my DNS to it, ran letsencrypt, fired up the web config, added my feeds, and we're up and running in 30 mins flat.<p>Next I guess I have to install this thing to RSS-ify other channels I like.<p>This is kind of exciting.
What might be the best way to aggregate multiple RSS feeds onto a webpage? So have been recently thinking about density of information and I want to create a webpage with as much information as possible and park it on a large 55inch screen I have in my home-office.
Is there a list of available routes somewhere?<p>I’m trying to create a personal clone of mailbrew to send myself a newsletter of all my favorite sources.
Someone at my company wanted to use RSShub for turning Instagram into an RSS feed. This kept breaking, because rsshub just scrapes Instagram profiles on the web and Instagram pushes its users to the app.<p>It’s probably more Instagrams fault than rsshub’s that it was breaking. Just be aware of these limitations.
I've started using IFTTT to sent RSS feed updates over to my email, and I think I've finally found my preferred way of consuming feeds.<p>My email client is actually much more powerful than most readers in letting me capture read status and labels / sorting.
I've been using RSSHub and it's GREAT.<p>It surprises me that people here fount it out so late. The project has been quite popular for years.
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