Boy do I feel old if a short, low content PSA about the existence of RSS is considered "hacker news."
user3939382 · 1h ago
RSS is the antidote to algorithm feeds. I’m glad for any mention of it. 90% of the tools users need were built 1970-2000 including RSS.
netule · 1h ago
Not only that, but an ad for their mobile app. Pretty low quality content.
al_borland · 41m ago
It’s not their app. NetNewsWire is developed by Brent Simmons and has been around for over 20 years. It’s free and open source. Last I saw, he didn’t even accept donations.
The only complaint I have about RSS is that it seems antagonistic to edits. It's not usual that, when refreshing my podcast RSS feed, there are multiple versions of the same episodes because they made some edit somewhere in the title or description, etc. I've had five versions of the same episode before. I feel like we should have the technology to fix this by now :P
vhcr · 10m ago
That's what the guid / id field is for.
lwhsiao · 23m ago
We do. Atom feeds have an updated field for this. But, it's up to whoever is generating the feed to know how to handle their metadata.
skeptrune · 1h ago
Ironically just told the founder of my company that it was mission critical our blog had RSS. He had never used it before somehow and didn't know why it would be a big deal lol.
colesantiago · 43m ago
> RSS is really simple, so it is still very well supported. Notably, all substack publications automatically have an RSS feed included at https://{{substack-domain}}/feed .
I wonder how long that will last until Substack closes it, I have never seen an RSS feed where the author is able to make it sustainable for them to make money from it.
msgodel · 41m ago
Substack seems to have done an incredible job allowing people to monetize their blogs. Maybe Substack themselves aren't profitable but the authors certainly seem to be doing well.
As someone who's subscribed to a lot of substacks the thing that brought me there was the availability of asynchronous reading (mail, rss newsletters.) I'm sure I'm not alone in disliking the actual site itself.
[0] https://blogs.hn
Other good directories:
[1] https://ooh.directory/
[2] https://blogroll.org/
not in my world it aint.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(web_standard)
I wonder how long that will last until Substack closes it, I have never seen an RSS feed where the author is able to make it sustainable for them to make money from it.
As someone who's subscribed to a lot of substacks the thing that brought me there was the availability of asynchronous reading (mail, rss newsletters.) I'm sure I'm not alone in disliking the actual site itself.