“The most amazing thing to me about RSS is that no one really went away from it,” says Wolf. “It still exists.”
Yeah.
“The most amazing thing to me about RSS is that no one really went away from it,” says Wolf. “It still exists.”
Yeah.
imagine being a tech journalist
so shameful
By the way, the article mentions ‘tools to help highlight just one story when there are dozens of near-identicals’. Can the af_psql_trgm
plugin do that?
It feels like RSS is going away… I don’t know if that’s actually the case or not. Certainly most of the people I know get their news from social media, which I could never endorse for obvious reasons. All of the sites I frequent support RSS still but a few users on my install have had their sites drop feed support.
It would have been nice to get TT-RSS mentioned there but maybe setting up a server and hosting a web application is too technical for their readership–they didn’t mention any self-hosted options, afterall.
The entire Internet is becoming a cesspool of advertisers and their tracking/profiling people and RSS doesn’t fit into that model well.
Thanks to tt-rss, my current setup is perfect. I only wish there were a reliable way of pulling RSS from Facebook. The RSS-Bridge doesn’t seem to work.
What’s a “Facebook”?
I agree with you though. My TT-RSS is pretty much perfected. I wrote a plugin to get full content using XPath from feeds that only have excerpts; fix lazy loaded images (some sites I follow put their images in a data-
attribute with a fallback to to an image in a noscript
tag); and remove crap like ads in feed content, social media sharing links, etc.
I had considered Selfoss at one point, but it lacked three things that TT-RSS had:
TT-RSS is the complete package. One thing I do appreciate is that while the entire application is rather large, its overall memory footprint at any one given time is quite reasonable (the beauty of autoloading classes).
I think if RSS ever does go away I’m packing up my stuff and leaving the Internet.
318 comments on Hacker News. I think RSS will never go away completely. Maybe relegated to the Internet boonies, like the Usenet has been.
Fortunately, TT-RSS wasn’t mentioned in the article…
Every time that happens, there’s a flood of wankers wanting help with mysql/apache/linux setup.
So you don’t want to provide full-time technical support for free?
Well, now that you mention it…