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4 years ago
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on: Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL
So yeah I use VoiceOver to navigate my phone on a daily basis, but I'm not a fan of reading things with it. If I'm going on a trip or something, I'll put the Kindle app on my phone.
Otherwise I use NVDA on my desktop for that. It's much more efficient for reading long things.
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4 years ago
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on: Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL
What if I wanted to listen to say a dynamically updating web page? Of course my screen reader will do that for me, but I'd like to try that with the service just for kicks.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
hopesthoughts
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4 years ago
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on: Apps Getting Worse
They do. Well in a good RSS reader, anyway.
hopesthoughts
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4 years ago
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on: Apps Getting Worse
When applied to everything, it's an RSS reader. For instance, Youtube offers RSS, so why not just put them in there? If you can find a podcast feed, you could put those in there, too. RSS readers aren't just for news sites.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
I'm not sure if it's a majority, however, I certainly recommend them everywhere I can. I've been using them since before Google reader shut down, so they've certainly been around a while.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
If I were to give you my OPML you'd see several examples of topic-based feeds. Whether that's a category or a tag.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
Yeah you should keep doing this. Every! single! time!!!
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
I believe the same thing, as well. You know what people talk about on Twitter these days? RSS. RSs readers, which ones they recommend etc. I have a daily alert that comes to me about this, and I've also done Twitter searches on this topic.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
Guess what? Substack supports RSS. Every substack has a feed.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
That was my question too. I fell asleep earlier, and I'm like did I wake up in some twilight zone without RSS???
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
OK well I think you should have elaborated more. I see a post that says we've lost RSS and I'm just like come on, give me a break, not another one of those!!!!
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
They still have them.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
Oh twitter. They used to have it way back in 2007 or so.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
Yeah apparently. I have no idea why this is the case, but it definitely is. Google did shut down reader, but that didn't shut down RSS. It's hard to take down an open standard like that with just the end of one app.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
Well if you run 3 ad blockers like me, you won't have to worry about any of that lol.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
Well, the site owner would have 0 control over what extensions I have installed. Asking me to disable them would most definitely result in me leaving.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
Ever since I started using RSS, back in the Google reader days, I used it in list view and clicked on articles I was interested in. I still do this today. I run ad blockers, so I'm absolutely useless to the sites, but I want to see the article in the original format.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
OK sure, but you can create usable feeds. There are services that will do this for you in like 5 seconds.
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4 years ago
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on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
Yeah me too!! I still use and love RSS! That's why these posts are just ridiculous.
