HACKER Q&A
📣 cgb223

How do you keep track of all your favorite blogs and news in one place?


With RSS being unfortunately a thing of the past, I’ve got this problem where I find it hard to get any kind of list or aggregate of all the different blogs and news sites that I want to keep track of.

Apple News doesn’t really solve my problem. It presents articles to me it thinks I like, rather than ones just from sources I do like, and many smaller blogs and sources cannot be added to it.

I can subscribe to newsletters for most blogs and news sites, but that spams my inbox with many emails instead of one.

What’s the best way to aggregate all of these into one place?

Ideally I want a list of articles from all the different sites I visit, in order of when they were published, either in an app or on a website or somewhere central. Nothing more, nothing less.

  👤 dbrereton Accepted Answer ✓
> With RSS being unfortunately a thing of the past

I'm not sure where you got this impression. Many sites have RSS, including most blogs, youtube, reddit, and HN. And there are countless RSS readers.

1. https://feedly.com/

2. https://www.inoreader.com/

3. https://bazqux.com/

4. https://newsblur.com/

👤 alexmingoia
I use (and built) <https://yunaru.com>, it’s pretty much just Twitter but with RSS/microformats2. You get a simple chronological feed of posts from the feeds you follow, and a page of each feed and it’s latest post in chronological order.

Custom domains and analytics coming soon for the blogging feature.

👤 drdeca
What do you mean rss is a thing of the past? Youtube channels support it, youtube playlists support it, tumblr blogs support it, lesswrong supports it, webcomics I follow support it. Substack also supports it. Pretty sure wordpress and blogger support it. ok, realizing that I apparently don't follow many blogs that are still active.
👤 blakeburch
Have you tried Feedly? It allows you to categorize and aggregate content from any site that you care about. Available as both a mobile and web app. Keeps track of what you've read.

It was the go-to tool back when Google Reader shut down, but I'm not sure where it stands in the ecosystem now.

👤 CritterM72800
I actually just started using an RSS reader a few months ago for the first time in years. RSS is still everywhere. I have only found one or two sites I wanted to follow that didn't support it, and those were custom built blogs where the owners happily added RSS support when I requested it.
👤 detaro
Feedreaders still work fine for the most part. I use Inoreader, which also integrates some social media feeds and can even generate fake feeds for many sites without them. (And many blogs and news sites still do have feeds anyways!)
👤 xz18r
RSS is not necessarily a thing of the past. Have you checked out solutions such as Inoreader?