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by twobitshifter
1897 days ago
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I’ve started using a feed reader recently. Here are some of my thoughts: I agree on the noisy feeds. I had to unsubscribe from Rolling Stone because although they have a few good articles most are crap. You could consider a mute button for specific authors or topics if the stream includes that or keywords if it does not. I think preferences have to be learned and there’s no way to do this up front. One of the problems with RSS readers for me is that they present you with an unread count, which like email can be stressful. I always want to get the unread to 0 even if that means just scanning the headlines and clicking read all. A format that presents a reasonably sized feed without an unread count would be a psychological improvement for me at least. A read more button could always be included. You could look at Google Reader which had some unique ideas for RSS and a lot of people loved. I never got to use it but I believe that it had dynamic keyword based searches for articles about certain topics. This is another technique to deal with the noise. I believe feed readers are not used today because there are several firehoses of information on the internet that are filling the void with as much content as people can consume. When feedreaders first appeared you had to actively seek out content which meant checking the home page of your favorite sites. Now that content comes to you through Twitter Facebook Reddit and email newsletters. Along the same lines there’s also the social component not offered by feed readers, which some people tend to crave. They want to engage with a story after reading it which is not a feature of most feed readers (this was possible on google reader from what I’ve heard) |
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If you’re interested in a simple RSS reader + blogging, check out <https://yunaru.com/>.
It provides a minimal Twitter-like feed (no unread counts), and another view displaying only the most recent entry for each feed.