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[dmje]

Hey, do you have an RSS feed? Would love to follow your work.

[dragonman225]

Hi, I don't have one right now, but have been thinking about it since from time to time I see people using RSS and it seems to be useful.

By the way, do you recommend any RSS readers? I would like to try it out myself first.

[dmje]

Hey I really like using Reeder (I’m a Mac person) as it’s very clean and uncluttered. In the past I have used ReadKit which is also very nice, similarly clean UI. I keep all my feeds on Feedly - their free plan is great. So on my mobile which is Android I just use their official app - again, nice and uncluttered. Everything keeps synced beautifully! I have also heard good things about inoreader but never really used it. cheers Mike

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On 26 Dec 2021, 10:52 +0000, Alexander Wang ***@***.***>, wrote: Hi, I don't have one right now, but have been thinking about it since from time to time I see people using RSS and it seems to be useful. By the way, do you recommend any RSS readers? I would like to try it out myself first. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS or Android. You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[dragonman225]

Hey, those looks great! I'm gonna try out Feedly since I use Linux and Android.
And I'm curious, RSS has been around for many years, do you think it's becoming popular or it's the opposite, in terms of the number of websites that support it and the number of your friends that use it?

[dmje]

Hello RSS was huge when I was started doing web stuff back in the 90’s - and I loved it then (was a big Google Reader user). Back then you saw RSS icons on everything! Then it went really downhill in use. My guess is that social media probably killed it, and I guess tools like Flipboard. But: I personally think we're seeing a resurgence - certainly on nerdy forums like HackerNews but elsewhere too. This is all just personal evidence, I have no idea if anyone has done any actual work on figuring out usage. My personal use-case is purely to be able to see through the noise to things I actually find interesting. I don’t use social media any more, it just took up too much bandwidth and wasn’t very interesting anyway - but a feed reader gives me the option to make *my own choice* about what I follow (no Facebook / Twitter algorithms here!) and to categorise / read when I’m ready. I can skip through stuff really quickly, dip in or dive in deeper when I see something interesting. I also really like that OPML is a portable format, which means you can move away from Feedly or wherever if you want to self-host or use another reader. Some recent stuff to check out if you have time - https://linklonk.com/ is interesting (saw this on HN) and just yesterday https://readwise.io/read - so it seems to be quite an active space. Oh, and I saw this the other day too - https://blog.feedly.com/easily-follow-websites-that-dont-have-rss-feeds/ - haven’t checked it out yet! cheers Mike

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On 27 Dec 2021, 04:51 +0000, Alexander Wang ***@***.***>, wrote: Hey, those looks great! I'm gonna try out Feedly since I use Linux and Android. And I'm curious, RSS has been around for many years, do you think it's becoming popular or it's the opposite, in terms of the number of websites that support it and the number of your friends that use it? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS or Android. You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>