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  • HN renders emojis in color?! I’m reading that on an iPad and see a red heart. That’s a first
    by dgellow
  • Nice! The entire https://pico.sh constellation of services are built off rss for notifications.

    https://pico.sh/feeds is an ssh app that is an rss-to-email service.

    by qudat
  • "RSS just needed people to reject the big-company hype" is why Im building my own reader. RSS was never the problem; it's the stuff around it: feeds truncated to a teaser, blogs dying and taking their archives with them, cloud readers logging everything you open.

    I'm building Cove (https://covereader.app), a native Mac app that works as a permanent local archive. Excerpt-only feeds get the full article fetched and extracted on-device in an offline WebView, stored LZFSE-compressed. It can also read articles aloud with streaming TTS that runs entirely locally, so nothing that you read leaves the machine. No account, no servers.

    Caveats: Mac-only, no sync yet, will be one-time purchase at 1.0 (beta is free now).

    by bullcitydev
  • If you love RSS, embrace Atom 1.0 :) Its the final modern form of RSS.
    by edhelas
  • It's great to see someone else using FeedLand. While it has some quirks, is has some clever ideas, like that blogroll feature.

    My favorite part of FeedLand is that you can see who subscribes to a blog and where else they subscribe. This makes RSS feel social, without the algorithmic tricks of traditional social media. Here's the listing for my blog, for example: https://feedland.com/?feedurl=https%3A%2F%2Falexsci.com%2Fbl...

    by 8organicbits
  • seeing an emoji in a title on HN really surprised me, I didn’t even know you could do that. Shows how much emotion we use on here lol.
    by ninjahawk1
  • I love RSS but what I love more than RSS are people who blog about stuff: high concept stuff, day-to-day stuff and just what they did yesterday.

    I wish people would blog more like in the old days.

    by mickeyp
  • Wow, what timing. Not to shill, but I'm also nearly done building a directory of RSS feeds. It stemmed from a frustration of outdated and broken RSS feed collections, and the long slow death of the orange RSS subscribe button across the web. I'm not officially launched yet but I would love some feedback and maybe some of the RSS feeds that land in your directory can be added to mine.

    https://rssvault.org

    Password is vaultearly644988

    Pardon the dust. There's an app tie-in that I'm almost done with too, a widget-first app that shows your RSS feed collections on your phone's home screen. It would really be great if we could start to bring about an RSS renaissance!

    by jjordan

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