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i browsed the web via RSS for a while. Maybe it's time to get back to that. at least for some food blogs or something. anyone got a good rss reader?
I like miniflux. Lightweight, web based, selfhostable, assisted hosting and compatible with third party clients.
Same, minflux is simple and very lightweight. I just use a web app on my phone to read it. Still very responsive.
+1 for Miniflux, super nice and it has a polished interface.
You can also access it through third-party apps such as NewsFlash (for Linux) or NetNewsWire (for mac, you just need to enable "Google Feeds APIs" in Miniflux for that).
Thunderbird. It feels right at home paired with Firefox, and has extremely powerful message filtering built in.
Got FreshRSS running on my home server and feeding a couple of client programs. RSSGuard on my computers and Readrops on my phone. No complaints, got it doing exactly what I want it to do.
I use FluentReader, and an extension that restores Firefox's old RSS functionality.
Edit: The extension I use is called Livemarks
i currently use firefox. mind sharing that extention with us please?
I'm blanking on the name rn, but I'll let you know ASAP
FreshRSS
It's vibe coded. :(
Yeah, it's a real pity. Even Dokuwiki, which was rock solid for ages, is plagued by it.
Does "messages from God" count as vibe coding? If not, TempleOS is not vibe coded.
As for RSS readers, you could try QuiteRSS which hasn't had a commit in 5 years
I remember using XSLT to make my site's RSS look good around 20 years ago. I thought it was so cool, though XSLT was awful to write.
Xslt has nothing to do with RSS being available or not.
It seems to have to do with how it looks formatting wise and not about availability or not, that is what is being meant.
That's just for those few websites that use their RSS feed as their content source. If they want to keep doing that they can just get a JavaScript library that provides XSLT functionality. The feed itself is untouched.
"Yay more JavaScript" said nobody
So things like newsbreak who ingest a sites feed then display?
YouTube broke my RSS feed for YouTube subscriptions by breaking how embedded videos works.
Now when I try to click on videos in my RSS feed it just gets me "Error 153" every time.
It's so frustrating!
I'm currently using Feedbro on Firefox (the add-on hasn't been updated in 2 years) but if anyone has any recommendations that don't get that error I'm all ears!
These days you can probably vibe-code yourself the perfect RSS extension or even standalone app.
Might give it a shot actually.
I've coded this and I'm a retard. Relative portion from a method:
from urllib.request import urlopen
foundrss = False
for line in urlopen(self.channelurl):
for word in line.split():
if foundrss:
if not self.feedurl:
self.feedurl = word.split(b'"')[1].decode("utf-8")
if 'xml' not in self.feedurl:
raise Exception("'xml' not found in feedurl")
elif not self.channelname: # feed url is set, extract the channel name that comes soon after
if word.startswith(b'content='): # start collecting words
self.channelname = [word.split(b'"')[1].decode("utf-8")]
if word.count(b'"') == 2: # channel name is a single word
self.channelname = self.channelname[0]
return
else: # we have channelname started, just collect the rest of the words now
if b'"' in word: # get text to the left of "
self.channelname.append(word.split(b'"')[0].decode("utf-8"))
self.channelname = ' '.join(self.channelname)
return
else:
self.channelname.append(word.decode("utf-8"))
elif word == b'title="RSS"':
foundrss = True
Wait, browsers still had RSS support? I thought that was deprecated a decade ago. I've been using dedicated apps for them
There are libraries that can polyfill this with almost zero effort. List should not effect any active site that offers rss feeds.
I'm a little confused about this. While I've been using RSS feeds for several years, my only experience with RSS feeds is with Inoreader. Will this cause issues with the way that I've been using RSS feeds or will I be unaffected?
Who TF is still using XSLT?
Good riddance.
We use it at my library/archive to convert EADs (XML finding aids) into something we can present to a human.
This change breaks something that's been working for us without issue for over a decade, and it's personally a PITA because I'm the only dev-adjacent person in the library and fixing this takes me away from other stuff. (I'm spread thin and we've been in a hiring freeze for 5 years. I love my coworkers but there's so much work stuff I have to deprioritoze in order to do the important stuff, it feels unfair when a big corporation decides to break something on me.)
You just need literally anything else other than the native browser to do it no?
I can't guarantee an online researcher/visitor has anything other than a browser and I sure as heck don't want to walk them through installing something on whatever machine they're using. I do enough tech support as it is.
Current plan is to have the web server do it, it's just another thing on my plate that I need to figure out how to do.
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