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by MollyRealized 1224 days ago
I don't know if you will agree, but even as a strong RSS user, I don't find RSS to be useful for HN. I tend to prefer the hckrnews.com interface - like a traditional RSS feed display, it is one-line per title, reverse chronological, but has some additional notations and sorts that are useful to me.
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In contrast, I only visit any of the home, latest, top or whatever pages like once a year, I only read HN via RSS - but like the OP stated, I need both links, one to the original article and one to the comments (or the proposed only comments-link)
> even as a strong RSS user, I don't find RSS to be useful for HN.

I find "replies to my_nick"[1] useful for not missing replies in some older threads.

[1] https://hnrss.org/replies?id=MollyRealized

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Yes, I love HN in my RSS and find it very useful, but yes, I'm sure that varies for everyone. Dedicated apps for HN, Reddit, etc, certainly offer a better experience for those platforms individually, but for me having everything in one place is much more practical and ideal, and then can use apps/sites for individual sites as needed.
I agree with you. I started self-hosting Miniflux recently, and the HN feed (just for the frontpage items) was sending me about 100 items everyday. I felt that was too much and removed the feed.