What does HackerNews think of rss-bridge?

There's also RSS-Bridge: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

"The RSS feed for websites missing it"

If you go the self-hosted route you can also put RSS-Bridge on the same host to locally generate RSS feeds for a lot of sources that don't have RSS like Twitter https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

RSS feeds have become my one and only way to consume the web and subscribe to people, websites and various things on the web.

Tiny Tiny RSS[0] is an addictive RSS reader with tons of options to sort, manipulate, filter in/out, etc. RSS entries. Feed Preview[1] is a must-have Firefox add-on for finding available feeds on websites (and previewing them).

All alternative front-ends to YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. provide feeds to subscribe to people like Invidious[2], nitter[3], Bibliogram[4], etc. (large list of alternative front-ends here [5]).

Fortunately, Github and Reddit, still natively support RSS feeds.

As others have mentioned, WordPress-based websites natively include RSS feeds for the whole website, by category, for comments of a particular post, etc. This is much better than crappy newsletters.

Regarding newsletters, when it's the only option, I use Mailnesia[6] to turn an inbox into an RSS feed.

Speaking of bridges, RSS-Bridge[7] makes feeds available to hundreds of websites through community plugins.

Feed43 [8] is also a great tool to force an ordinary page to be available as an RSS feed.

SearX [9], a metasearch engine, turns into a very powerful tool to watch for something on the whole web with advanced search functions and results available as RSS feeds. This is better than many dedicated tools, imo.

Anyway, I don't think RSS feeds are missing or even dying. But they are definitely a relic of the good old days, when Aaron Swartz was around, and unfortunately reserved for people who are looking for them or are curious enough to dive into that world.

One thing is for sure though: if they disappear, I'm out.

[0] https://tt-rss.org

[1] https://code.guido-berhoerster.org/addons/firefox-addons/fee...

[2] https://invidious.io

[3] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

[4] https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/

[5] https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends

[6] https://mailnesia.com

[7] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

[8] https://feed43.com

[9] https://searx.space

Relevant: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

It is a feed generator for sites that don't have it.

I've the same issue with some local news webpages and government sites, but I've been using PolitePol[1] to generate the feeds; they're not great but get the job done. Right now I'm looking for projects like RSSHub[2] or RSS Bridge[3] to have a similar service but self-hosted and without the restrictions of the free tier of PolitePol.

I think in the future RSS will be a community driven effort, not something that the website themselves care to implement.

[1] - https://politepol.com/en/ [2] - https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub [3] - https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

As a big fan of RSS (I read HN through hnrss[0]), this is wonderful. It seems to be a nice catch-all for whatever websites rss-bridge doesn't support.

If any of you are looking into RSS, check out FreshRSS[2] (an RSS aggregator). A mobile client I especially like is NetNewsWire[3] (for Apple products only, but is imo amazing)

[0] https://hnrss.github.io/

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

[2] https://www.freshrss.org/

[3] https://netnewswire.com/

For Twitter I use this Bridge to get RSS

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

Just saw, it works also with other websites like youtube. But I have never tried this.

Thank you, will try it out.

Two things I am using:

Twitter to RSS: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

Arbitrary RSS feeds: https://feedity.com

Nice tool! A related one that is helpful for getting RSS feeds from websites (with e.g. full article content) is rss-bridge: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

Big fan of RSS since back at least to the Google Reader days. I realized I was just checking the same websites over and over and decided to streamline the process. (That ended up in building up a backlog of entries in a feed and scrambling before whatever was about to expire, but that's another story).

After that shutdown I was on Feedly for a while, and now moved to self hosting miniflux [0] which I'm quite happy with. Haven't found the perfect Android app, but the miniflux web view (minimal, but effective) is growing on me. I also self-host rss-bridge [1] to wrangle some less ideal feeds (you can grab whole content, format as you like, etc.)

[0] https://miniflux.app/

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

See also: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge (already supports around 280 websites)

I selfhost this: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

I highly recommend it.

There's an open source service that does something similar, does anyone remember its name?

edit: Both rssbox in the OP, and RSS-bridge[1] are open source. I was thinking of the latter. There's also RSSHub[2].

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

[2] https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub

In the same vein : RSS-Bridge

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

(you can find multiple instances on the web)

Yes. I don't understand how else I'm supposed to receive content without constantly rechecking everything and having to remember where I stopped previously.

What is more, I've got bunch of scripts that do keyword search for topics that interest me on Reddit/Hackernews/GitHub/pinboard and generate private RSS feeds. That way I can quickly skim through them once in a while and stay up to date without having to do manual searches.

P.S. if the website doesn't support RSS, you can still use one of feed generators that basically scrape the website now and then and generate the feed. I've used http://fetchrss.com so far, there are also some open source/selfhosted alternatives like https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

If you are interested in RSS, I did a twitter-thread [3] recently on interesting projects in the space. Reproducing here: If you are interested in helping revive #RSS, a thread on some good FOSS projects around RSS:

1. RSS-Bridge[0] - RSS Feeds for websites that don't give you one. Supports instagram/facebook/Google Search and many more (150+) websites. Very easy to contribute, and there are open requests for lots of providers. (I added a Amazon Price Tracker Bridge in <150 loc). Yes, I get a RSS notification when there is a price change on something I follow[1].

2. MiniFlux - Golang+Postgres based self-hosted RSS feed reader. Minimal/responsive design with keyboard shortcuts https://miniflux.app

3. 3. tt-rss - A highly configurable PHP based RSS feed reader. Supports plugins and has tons of options. UI is similar to Google Reader. https://tt-rss.org

4. Winds - A Beautiful Open Source RSS & Podcast App powered by @getstream_io. I haven't tried self-hosting it yet, but it looks really great. Also, under very active development. https://github.com/GetStream/Winds

5. FreshRSS - Lightweight PHP/SQlite self-hosted feed reader. Looks great as well. https://freshrss.org

6. Kill the Newsletter - Subscribe to a newsletter with a one-time generated email address, it generates a RSS feed for you. Your inbox stays clean. https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com

7. OPML Generator - Generates OPML Files using subscriptions on other sites. Supports GitHub stars (generates a file you can import to follow releases from all your starred repos on GitHub) https://opml.bb8.fun/ (Personal project, so count this as a shameless self plug)

8. RSS never really died, so revival is a misnomer in that sense. All major news publications still support RSS. The entire Podcast ecosytem works on RSS. You should also look at WebSub and ActivityPub (both W3C recommendations) if you're interested in this.

9. And finally a cool new idea - build a Telegram Channel to RSS Feed generator. Will open up so much hidden content to the open web.

10. Bonus: https://www.youneedfeeds.com/ Info site that you should share with your friends to help them get started with RSS.

[0]: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

[1]: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/pull/741

[3]: https://twitter.com/captn3m0/status/1018850458675408902

For me, RSS is by far the best way to access web content.

I've tried some self hosted RSS readers over the years but I've stayed with FreshRSS[1] for the last year. It has been a marvelous experience. Zero trouble, zero administrative burden. Self-hosted bliss. Best of all is the fact that it uses a flat file DB so it can easily be backed up, moved around and migrated. Can not recommend it enough. Also, it's PHP, so works on any cheap shared hosting. That's how I use it.

One of the best things about it is escaping the algorithmically curated feeds.

Every and service that I use has an RSS feed, except for Twitter. I use RSS-Bridge[2] (self hosted too) to follow users. RSS-Bridge[2] will give you feeds for just about every service you can think of.

If you don't find a feed for a site, sometimes you just have to dig a little. You learn at which URIs the most commons CMSes presents their Atom/RSS feeds (hello /feed/).

[1] https://freshrss.org/

[2] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

A personal story:

I went a few years without Google Analytics, and I was proud of the fact that my weblog had no tracking software. I kept thinking I would write a script to track the audience myself. But I was busy and never got around to it. So in the autumn I decided, okay, I'll use Google Analytics for a few months, till I can write my own code.

I'd written my own system for tracking my weblog, back in the era of 2005-2009, before I used WordPress (back when I only used my own code for websites).

Looking at the Google Analytics results nowadays is heartbreaking for someone like me, who remembers the independent blogosphere of 12 years ago. Because it is gone. Utterly gone.

Back then my traffic tended to come from dozens of independent bloggers who noticed when I occasionally said something smart. The blogosphere was a world of individual voices. There were big group blogs, such as Crooked Timber, but even those consisted of individuals and it was easy to figure out who had admired something I wrote. It was a world where you had some sense of who was reading you, and what they thought about you, and they could see when you read them in return.

That world died in the era 2006-2010 as Twitter and Facebook gained influence.

Nowadays, Google Analytics shows I get traffic from sites that aggregate audiences. Overwhelmingly, that's Facebook and Twitter. The traffic is very sporadic, full of big spikes of anonymous readers. A few times a year I'll write something that gets on the front page of Hacker News, and then I'll get from Hacker News anywhere from 4,000 to 40,000 visits over two or three days. Which is great, but also sporadic.

What I miss is the ability to follow those who are reading me, and more so, their awareness, in response, that I am reading them in return. The dynamic of "You read me so I read you and you see that I read you" is alive and well on specific sites, such as Twitter, but I miss it being part of the general Internet experience. I do realize I can use something like https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge to treat social media as a series of RSS feeds, and I am planning on doing that, but that still misses the element of them seeing that I am reading them.

I've been thinking about some way to try to balance people's preference for walled-gardens with this kind of open back and forth conversation. I might work on this more seriously later in the year.

If anyone is interested in a bit of history, way back in 2006 I wrote what was widely considered the most definitive summary of the fighting that had taken place among those interested in developing RSS. All of this was made irrelevant by the rise of Twitter, but in 2006, this still seemed like a very important topic for the Web industry:

"RSS has been damaged by in-fighting among those who advocate for it"

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/rss-has-been-damaged-...

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