How do you manage RSS feeds effectively?

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Few more questions:1. What's the limit and the diversity of the feeds do you have?2. What software/service do you use now and prefer?3. How far are you depended on the Social Media algorithms' prioritizing the contents that could potentially save much time?4. What is the solution for the websites/social media that doesn't provide RSS feed in itself?5. RSS feeds now - Worth it?

Jugurtha · Accepted Answer

>1. What's the limit and the diversity of the feeds do you have?Release feeds for third party software dependencies. I read the release notes, pull the repos, read commit logs sometimes, etc.Feeds from Hacker News, and monitoring a few keywords for comments and 'stories'.>2. What software/service do you use now and prefer?I use Mozilla Thunderbird for both emails and RSS.>3. How far are you depended on the Social Media algorithms' prioritizing the contents that could potentially save much time?I don't understand this question, and would be unable to answer one interpretation of this question given the fact I do not know how these "algorithms" work.>4. What is the solution for the websites/social media that doesn't provide RSS feed in itself?I don't know. There has not yet been a website lacking an RSS feed that I felt the need to monitor that closely to think of a solution to this problem.>5. RSS feeds now - Worth it ?Yes.

derekzhouzhen · Answer

> 1. What's the limit and the diversity of the feeds do you have?
Mostly personal blogs, a few company blogs, and HN feeds
2. What software/service do you use now and prefer?
https://airss.roastidio.us
3. How far are you depended on the Social Media algorithms' prioritizing the contents that could potentially save much time?
You can save even more time by not reading anything. I use RSS because I want to control what I read myself. I read as much or as little as my time permit; I don't have FOMO.
4. What is the solution for the websites/social media that doesn't provide RSS feed in itself?
Why should they? RSS is the wrong venue for them anyhow.
5. RSS feeds now - Worth it?
I am not sure what you expect to get; people bother to answer all the questions so far would most likely say yes, except the masochists.

t-3 · Answer

1. I use RSS for blogs, software version tracking (e.g. the linux kernel), and serial content (webnovels, comics, etc.) I used to use it for news, but the dispropotionate output of different sites cluttered the feeds and didn't work well for me, so I visit news sites manually for now.
2. I use sfeed with dmenu (and read content in the browser). Low resource usage, simple setup, scriptable. I have not been happy with any of the (android) smartphone-based RSS software that I've tried. The interfaces are clumsy, and trying to sort through the giant list of content on a touchscreen with my fat fingers without error was frustrating.
3. Not at all. I don't use any of the big social media, and for more niche social media (like HN), I don't use RSS.
4. This is not a problem, in my experience. RSS/atom are pretty simple and have implementations in nearly every widely used software stack on the web, so pretty much every site has an rss feed (although they don't always advertise it!). However, if I absolutely needed updates on a specific site that didn't have a feed and didn't care enough to manually check it everyday, I would probably just use curl to scrape it.
5. Yes.

animesh · Answer

1- Mostly programming bloggers whom I am reading from for the last decade or so. Occasionally, I add stuff like Low Tech Magazine and continue them if they have semi-regular and decent content.
2- QuiteRSS
3- None.
4- Provide a nagging comment on the HN/Reddit article to provide a feed. I get they wouldn't want to, but still I try to make my case.
5- Absolutely, now more than ever. IMHO, I realized that if I could keep curating my feeds somewhat regularly, then I could actually lay off proggit and even HN.

kspyy · Answer

I switched to using NetNewsWire as an open-source alternative and have been enjoying it, the mac desktop client works great for my needs. Had previously been using feedly for quite sometime, had contemplated upgrading but honestly didn't feel compelled to pay for an rss service. I sync my feeds via icloud and it works fine between desktop and mobile

Irongirl1 · Answer

4. http://fetchrss.com generates feeds from sites without RSS.I don't have it set up but I wish I did. It would make things so much easier.

tra3 · Answer

#3 - that's the attractiveness of RSS feeds, nobody prioritizes them but me. I read what I want in the order that I want it in.I use Feedly as an aggregator and mostly read on my iPhone with Reeder.

dgeiser13 · Answer

2. I am currently using https://www.inoreader.com/

alexmingoia · Answer

I use Mailbrew, which combines Twitter, RSS, newsletters, podcasts, whatever into a single daily digest sent to my email. Worth every penny.

ryanchants · Answer

2. I use newsblur for my RSS/ATOM reader. And kill-the-newsletter.com to turn email newsletters into ATOM feeds.

How do you manage RSS feeds effectively?

4. http://fetchrss.com generates feeds from sites without RSS.
I don't have it set up but I wish I did. It would make things so much easier.

#3 - that's the attractiveness of RSS feeds, nobody prioritizes them but me. I read what I want in the order that I want it in.
I use Feedly as an aggregator and mostly read on my iPhone with Reeder.

2. I am currently using https://www.inoreader.com/

I use Mailbrew, which combines Twitter, RSS, newsletters, podcasts, whatever into a single daily digest sent to my email. Worth every penny.

2. I use newsblur for my RSS/ATOM reader. And kill-the-newsletter.com to turn email newsletters into ATOM feeds.