[HN Gopher] The View from RSS
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The View from RSS
Author : Curiositry
Score : 36 points
Date : 2026-03-04 20:19 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| cadamsdotcom wrote:
| I'd like to use this space to praise everyone involved in
| creating and keeping NetNewsWire alive.
|
| I (re)discovered RSS a few months ago via NetNewsWire, and it's
| so calming and empowering to curate one's own feed.
|
| Rumors of RSS' death are greatly exaggerated.
| simonw wrote:
| NetNewsWire is SO good - both the macOS and iPhone apps. Real
| labor of love. We are very lucky to have it.
| miladyincontrol wrote:
| Definitely my favorite mobile RSS app.
|
| Personally I keep it syncing off TTRSS for filtering and
| automatic actioning on certain feed entries, but that aint
| everyone's cup of tea. I'd like to think NNW at least covers
| most people's use cases whether standalone or relying off
| another service to aggregate.
| nntwozz wrote:
| Love it, also shoutout to NewsFire from the days of yore.
|
| https://newsfirex.com
|
| Just look at it, NNW is still using the same great design.
| sixtyj wrote:
| RSS' death is real - 15 years ago, almost every news site had a
| RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare.
|
| So if you want to make news feed from news sites, you have to
| use parsing their html code, and ofc everybody has its own
| structure. JS powered sites are painful ones.
| rambambram wrote:
| Nice! I'm also around 2000 feeds in my reader, carefully selected
| over a couple of years. Only difference: I always click through
| to the website to read an article.
|
| Now in the process of slowly making RSS my only social feed. Have
| a hard time of leaving Youtube, but once I embedded the videos of
| the channels I follow in my RSS reader I see a way of not getting
| annoyed by the recommendation algorithm on their website anymore.
| rambambram wrote:
| I forgot to say, most of these 2000 feeds I have from here on
| HN. Please keep posting on your own website/blog and 'share'
| with RSS.
| nokya wrote:
| And a little thought to Aaron. We still miss you.
| squeegmeister wrote:
| I've always thought RSS seemed cool. Hope it has a renaissance
| with people leaving social media
| krembo wrote:
| I'd like to share a preview of my RSS (&other sources) feed
| aggregator: https://aggly.com (designed to look better on
| desktops)
|
| It's still a work in progress, so treat this as an early preview
| before I submit it to Show HN. Feedback and criticism are
| welcome.
| jurakovic wrote:
| I love RSS but I didn't find good enough online reader that can
| be customized to my liking, so I built my own:
| https://jurakovic.github.io/dev-links/news/
|
| I have many more ideas, but I don't have that much free time to
| implement all of it (even with Claude Code). But it serves me
| very well for now
| elashri wrote:
| I think the space of RSS feed readers and aggregators are very
| rich already. The pain point for ordinary users is to have easy
| way to generate RSS feeds for websites that don't provide organic
| one.
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| There are few options but mostly proprietary and expensive. And
| no normal person will want to play the CSS tricks to extract feed
| that something like FreshRSS support.
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