HACKER Q&A
📣 pipeline_peak

Where do you find your RSS sites?


I’ve been wanting to use RSS for quite a while, but what always seems to hit me is how vast and unorganized the web has become.

Google search is an absolute joke, how do you find sites to follow?


  👤 stevekemp Accepted Answer ✓
Honestly random discovery, sometimes sites that appear here, sometimes things that I come across on other sites.

I remember a while back I searched google for "int03", "cp/m retro bdos" and found a bunch of old-school low-level blogs, to which I subscribed.

But other sites seem to be very well-known and get presented on a few different sites. For example this one is an absolute gem, even though I'm not a gamer:

https://www.filfre.net/


👤 ggeorgovassilis
Mostly hacker news. When I like a post, I subscribe to the site's feed. Takes a while to build a good index but it's worth it.

👤 hammyhavoc
The assumption is that every CMS provides a feed on `/feed`, and with a good chunk of the web running on WordPress, which has RSS in the OOBE, you'll find plenty.

For anything that doesn't, I run a scraper to turn its content into an RSS feed that I'll get.


👤 warrenm
I've been adding to mine over the years at https://datente.com/main.feeds (the list that shows up when you load https://datente.com)

👤 warrenm
I feel like this should be a pinned question on HN ... seems like it gets asked every couple days :)

👤 jslakro
Probably the current web is missing of something like DMOZ

👤 EddieDante
I've been trying to figure this out myself, because as you pointed out Google is worse than useless.