hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: What we lost – a paean, perhaps, to RSS
Wow I'm definitely not a fan of these kind of posts!! In fact, I can't stand them.
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hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: The Day the Good Internet Died
Exactly!! It's also not like RSS died that day. People say it is, but um... it's still around.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: The Day the Good Internet Died
Could you give this an RSs feed? Especially for the recent/latest things.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: The Day the Good Internet Died
Personal directories still exist. https://indieseek.xyz/ That's an example of one of those. Webrings are still kind of with us, some people tried to revive them. https://indieweb.org/webring
Believe it or not, MUDs are still around too. https://www.aardwolf.com/
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: The Day the Good Internet Died
Tip: it didn't actually die. I use Miniflux, which is a self-hosted RSS reader. It has a page with all the feeds on it, when you click on a feed, it displays the articles for that feed. You can also just look at the river, like the HN front page. I never do it that way though lol.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Readian News – personalized news recommendations
I only used the Google reader feed suggestion thing, when it was still around. Otherwise, I don't use anything to recommend me new feeds. However, that's what I'd like a service to do.
webspinner | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Matt Levine’s Money Stuff Paywalled from now on?
Blah, I hate paywalled newsletters. It's fine to maybe do a Patreon or something for extra, bonus content, but I don't think you should stop people from reading your stuff.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Readian News – personalized news recommendations
Are you going to make the OPML work on the web version eventually? Also if I import an OPML, it would be epic if I could get a list of recommended feeds back that are similar to mine.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Readian News – personalized news recommendations
Will it recommend me feeds based on an OPML I import? Also RSS doesn't clutter up anything. You probably got the worst of it with Feedly.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Back to the Future with RSS
Miniflux will also let you do a per-feed view, from the feeds and/or categories pages. I'm pretty sure Feedbin does as well.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Back to the Future with RSS
Miniflux does it for me. Although you do have to have a place to install it. I mean, it needs a server. Whether that's a home server that you have, or a VPS, it doesn't matter.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Back to the Future with RSS
Well, I think the opposite is correct. The only solution is to archive everything. therefore I do, I accomplish this with a Miniflux instance with about 360,000 items in it. Then again I kept all my blog content going back until 2009, for 10 years,. That is until 2019, when I decided to start completely over.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Tiny Acquisitions
Could this have an RSS feed? Maybe of recent projects posted, bought sold etc?
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
Except me, if I open up my RSS reader, I'm usually looking for something new. I turn Youtube videos into audio podcasts using a service, and put them in a podcast client that's separate from my RSS reader.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
Lol you and I both.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
Could this have an RSS feed? I'd like to put it in my reader.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
Blogrolls are good things, but unfortunately they aren't universal these days.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
Me too!! The only thing I wish Miniflux did is newsletters.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
I'm using a Miniflux instance.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
Not only that it makes less work for you, and takes up less space in the browser. As in you don't have to visit each site on a regular basis, and you don't have a whole bunch of bookmarks sitting around.