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cadamsdotcom 3 days ago [-]
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.
miladyincontrol 2 days ago [-]
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.
simonw 2 days ago [-]
NetNewsWire is SO good - both the macOS and iPhone apps. Real labor of love. We are very lucky to have it.
reddalo 2 days ago [-]
I agree. I'm just sad that, since I'll personally never upgrade to Liquid (Gl)ass, they stopped updating NetNewsWire for macOS versions before Tahoe.
themadturk 1 days ago [-]
There is a new version for Sonoma and Sequoia! I am so happy.
mashpanic 2 days ago [-]
I believe they just finished or are in beta to release the new version to older OS.
I was a NNW user for years and it's why I eventually built my own news reader. NNW had a lot of great features and I wanted to mostly keep them. You might find that NewsBlur takes a similar path but with a different set of opinions.
lproven 19 hours ago [-]
You jogged my memory and I downloaded it, after a small detour trying to find a version that'll run on my 11YO iMac.
I have a whole collection of feeds alread, which I have no knowledge of at all. Many I've never even heard of. Is this a default thing, or was I accidentally bookmarking RSS feeds or something years ago and never knew?
sixtyj 2 days ago [-]
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.
reaperducer 2 days ago [-]
15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare.
It may be a reflection of where you get your news.
New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Radio Free Europe, Mainichi, and lots of other legitimate primary source Big-J journalism news sites have RSS.
Rando McRepost's AI-Generated Rehash Blog? Not so much.
wink 22 hours ago [-]
I don't know, I also only use RSS (with the exception of Reddit I think) so I would not even notice a website that a) provides content I want to get notified about and not actively visit for a reason and b) has no feed.
6510 2 days ago [-]
There are feeds of everything. You just have to look harder.
It is somehow less funny today but in the 90's we would say "is there something wrong with your hands?"
A truly funny story: I wrote an rss aggregator and one day I discover some feeds had died without me noticing it. I looked at the feed, it was gone, I look at my aggregate and the headlines were all there?!?!
Since I gather a lot of feeds I couldn't help but noticed that a very large amount isn't wellformed. For example, in xml attributes the & (in urls) is suppose to be &, if you do that however many aggregators won't be able to parse it.
Every other month I wrote little bits of code to address the most annoying issues.
1) if I cant find a <link> or <guide> etc I eventually just gather <a>'s and take the href.
2) if I really cant find a title for the item I had it fail back on whatever is in the <a> since I was gathering those anyway.
3) if I cant even find an <item> I just look for the things that are suppose to go in the <item>
4) if I cant find a proper time stamp ill try parse one out of the url
5) if the urls are relative path complete them.
What was actually going on: The feed was gone, it redirected to the home page. In an attempt to parse the "xml" it eventually resorted to gathering the url and title from the <a>'s and build valid time stamps from the urls.
Mistral used to serve a feed actually up until 6ish months ago I guess? Their admin console used to be built with HTMX too which I found kinda interesting.
Now the news site and admin console is all in Next.js and slow and no feed.
Just look at it, NNW is still using the same great design.
conesus 2 days ago [-]
Seriously. I've been updating NewsBlur with all the pet features people have wanted for years and I'm finding that it's even more enjoyable now with all those AI features built in. Daily briefing, ask AI, story clustering, all of these are AI-flavored improvements to RSS and it's so relaxing to open up my river of news and scroll through all the good stuff without feeling a gross algorithm surfacing endless outrage.
I read plenty of X as well as scroll through various social media apps and nothing comes close to how great RSS feels to read.
rambambram 3 days ago [-]
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.
CqtGLRGcukpy 2 days ago [-]
YouTube does offer RSS feeds for each channel, you just need the channel id.
I used some strange wording when I read it back, but that's what I meant.
rambambram 2 days ago [-]
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 3 days ago [-]
And a little thought to Aaron. We still miss you.
elashri 2 days ago [-]
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.
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.
nickthegreek 2 days ago [-]
Current setup is freshrss running in a proxmox lxc on prem + tailscale. Big fan of the lire iOS app for interacting on mobile and use the freshrss webui on desktop. killthenewsletter helps patch in some email stuff too. RSS and NNTP are 2 technologies that have been with me for decades and you are gonna have to pry them from me.
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 2 days ago [-]
I'm using FreshRSS as well, sitting on an OpenBSD VM. I use Capy Reader on Android, as well as the FreshRSS front end on desktop.
It does everything I need with no fuss.
krembo 2 days ago [-]
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.
8organicbits 2 days ago [-]
This is cool.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the feed-per-column style as I like to subscribe to personal blogs which post a handful of times per year. Maybe 100 feeds which average 2-5 posts per year. Is there a way to merge columns? But may not be the intended audience.
I do feel like RSS feeds are one of the easier things to do DIY, custom to people's specific taste of how to list data of this sort. All the 'off the shelf' RSS feeds that I see feel contrived, cluttered and bloated.
outlore 2 days ago [-]
I saw Current Reader (no affiliation) posted on the web a couple days ago. It seems like a nice way to keep up to date with many hundreds of feeds by giving them different priorities, where for example a low priority feed may disappear from view quicker than a higher priority one. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/current-reader/id6758530974
I used to use Reeder pretty religiously but as websites started to lock down their feeds and charge subscriptions, it became less useful over time. As readership declines, publishers are rightly concerned to protect their remaining revenue by charging subscriptions. I would love for a new protocol to exist which could compensate providers appropriately and allow for consumer choice in reading with whatever app
squeegmeister 2 days ago [-]
I’ve always thought RSS seemed cool. Hope it has a renaissance with people leaving social media
kkfx 2 days ago [-]
After many tests I'm on YARR, not super-happy but for my volumes of feeds and time it's the best fit still actively developed, before I was on TT-Rss. I've tried elfeed and RSS2email with notmuch/emacs but while wonderful they demand too much time because they are meant to READ posts, while, well having many I more scroll and pick then going through all. Gnus with scoring maybe better but create the scoring for today news it's challenging...
Havoc 2 days ago [-]
The other issue is that bot detection has gotten pretty good. So fishing out the full content rather than a single sentence summary is getting ever harder.
Been toying with that and concluded you basically have to use a service. From a random VPS between 60-90% gets blocked
headsman771 2 days ago [-]
I like rss2email sending to a local email box read with evolution or the like.
Also built my own rss reader https://gmnz.xyz/projects/ember-feed/ with an emphasis on code block themes because I mostly follow engineering and developer blogs.
paladum 2 days ago [-]
Agree with all that. What about adding a social dimension with OPML publisihing and "subscriptions" ? It s a kind of rss feed of rss feeds.
I have been using it for a few weeks, was never really into RSS (I quite like to be oriented to the web site I’m reading), but have found newsagent nice to use
ece 2 days ago [-]
I've been using Flare on f-droid, which integrates RSS and fedi, it's simple but pretty good.
loughnane 2 days ago [-]
Self-hosted miniflux is great.
armitage 2 days ago [-]
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moralcoral 2 days ago [-]
Ok, cool cool, but why not contribute via rss as well?
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.
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.
I have a whole collection of feeds alread, which I have no knowledge of at all. Many I've never even heard of. Is this a default thing, or was I accidentally bookmarking RSS feeds or something years ago and never knew?
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.
It may be a reflection of where you get your news.
New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Radio Free Europe, Mainichi, and lots of other legitimate primary source Big-J journalism news sites have RSS.
Rando McRepost's AI-Generated Rehash Blog? Not so much.
edit: provide an example please
https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-...
A truly funny story: I wrote an rss aggregator and one day I discover some feeds had died without me noticing it. I looked at the feed, it was gone, I look at my aggregate and the headlines were all there?!?!
Since I gather a lot of feeds I couldn't help but noticed that a very large amount isn't wellformed. For example, in xml attributes the & (in urls) is suppose to be &, if you do that however many aggregators won't be able to parse it.
Every other month I wrote little bits of code to address the most annoying issues. 1) if I cant find a <link> or <guide> etc I eventually just gather <a>'s and take the href. 2) if I really cant find a title for the item I had it fail back on whatever is in the <a> since I was gathering those anyway. 3) if I cant even find an <item> I just look for the things that are suppose to go in the <item> 4) if I cant find a proper time stamp ill try parse one out of the url 5) if the urls are relative path complete them.
What was actually going on: The feed was gone, it redirected to the home page. In an attempt to parse the "xml" it eventually resorted to gathering the url and title from the <a>'s and build valid time stamps from the urls.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/51120/rss.xml
I haven't fully examined it but looking at the xml I see it was last build in 2026 and a headline about Women's Asian Cup 2026.
abc.net.au/news/2026-03-05/matildas-iran-asian-cup-quick-hits-hayley-raso-mary-fowler/106413886
https://mistral.ai/news/
Now the news site and admin console is all in Next.js and slow and no feed.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds/main/feeds...
from here
https://github.com/0xSMW/rss-feeds
https://newsfirex.com
Just look at it, NNW is still using the same great design.
I read plenty of X as well as scroll through various social media apps and nothing comes close to how great RSS feels to read.
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.
For example, the RSS feed for the defunctland channel is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCVo63lb....
However 2 days ago google marked my page as harmful, so probably not that many will be able to access it.
https://rumca-js.github.io/feeds
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.
It does everything I need with no fuss.
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.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the feed-per-column style as I like to subscribe to personal blogs which post a handful of times per year. Maybe 100 feeds which average 2-5 posts per year. Is there a way to merge columns? But may not be the intended audience.
I suggest OPML import to make it easier for people to move subscriptions. Feed discovery tools also like to integrate with feed readers, can you add an API like https://agglu.com/subscribe?url=https://example.com/feed.xml
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
I do feel like RSS feeds are one of the easier things to do DIY, custom to people's specific taste of how to list data of this sort. All the 'off the shelf' RSS feeds that I see feel contrived, cluttered and bloated.
I used to use Reeder pretty religiously but as websites started to lock down their feeds and charge subscriptions, it became less useful over time. As readership declines, publishers are rightly concerned to protect their remaining revenue by charging subscriptions. I would love for a new protocol to exist which could compensate providers appropriately and allow for consumer choice in reading with whatever app
Been toying with that and concluded you basically have to use a service. From a random VPS between 60-90% gets blocked
https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email
Non-RSS feeds like bluesky as well