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I can't be the only one using it
What do you use RSS for?
Also, discuss the conspiracy to curb RSS because it hasn't been figured out how to put ads in feeds
for getting the latest animu
I decided to start following sfm porn
I don't understand, how could people get websites updates without RSS? Reloading the page every 5 minutes?
>>52989036
You would be surprised what ass backwards things I've seen
>>52989048
this. so much this. and not just how they browse websites.
>>52989377
>hey anon, check out this 1337 lifehack! i downloaded an extension to auto refresh these 50 tabs i have bookmarked!
>>52988989
I use it to follow commits from github projects.
>>52990617
Almost this, except I follow releases.
>>52988989
>What do you use RSS for?
To find out about new contents on lots of sites - I have a few dozens of feeds subscribed. For retarded sites not supporting RSS I use page2rss.com.
>>52990685
>not supporting RSS
Wtf, seriously. I added that ability to my site in less than an hour, including research and testing.
>>52988989
mostly news/blogs/updates.
>>52989036
they visit websites or they follow websites/companies/celebrities on twitter/facebook/reddit.
i don't even care though. i'm tired of convincing retards. as long as rss works for me, normies can do whatever they want.
>>52989036
This holy shit. I'm following so many places be it for animu, technology articles, erotic chinese cartoon porn comics, deals on goods, etc and I still have over 100 tabs open.
>>52990883
>i'm tired of convincing retards. as long as rss works for me, normies can do whatever they want
The problem is retarded normies outnumber us vastly and then one day stuff like RSS may stop being supported because "almost nobody uses it these days".
Kind of reminds me how mailing groups are marginal now since retards prefer to use facebook groups for everything.
Nowdays i mostly use it to get updates on webnovels or translations
>>52991143
RSS, mailing lists, usergroups, Google Wave...
eh. Let's hope something better comes up. Or build it ourselves.
And after all, both RSS and mailing lists (and IRC, while we're at it) are quite alive still.
>>52991472
Google Wave lives on as Apache Wave fyi
>>52991143
As long as tech people still use RSS, it's going to stay around (just like IRC has) until something new or an extension does it overwhelmingly better
![Screenshot_2016-02-15-08-41-57[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/0SdoRIa.png "Screenshot_2016-02-15-08-41-57[1].png")
Mainly just use it for news. All my feeds are stored on Feedly, but I use gReader Pro on Android.
I never used RSS or understood what it was used for
>>52991869
End yourself.
>>52991869
It's for people who use a lot of different sites for information who want to incorporate all those diffrent feeds (how most wesbites push out the information to their front page) into one source to read.
Example: Some bloke reads CNN, USAToday, Al-Jezzera and The Drudge report every day. Instead of going to these sites, all the information can be pushed into one feed.
>>52988989
blog updates
mango releases
animu and tv series automatic download
>>52989036
>I don't need rss. The same blog puts out the notification in facebook and I see it there.
>well, did you see x from y?
>no, it didn't come in my feeds
Fucking normies, not even caring about how facebook algorithms cuck them and show them just what facebook wants.
>>52990883
The problem is that the less people use rss, the less it's the adoption in new sites, or even it surviving.
How often features are removed because "not enough people was using them"?
RSS feeds could be the next one.
Is there any client that can handle rss from youtube without shitting the bed because videos were "updated" (i.e. got a new comment)
>>52989398
I distinctly remember signing up to an email service that would email whenever given websites changed in any way.
bump for timeless classics
and another one
and this is why RSS is dying
Automatically downloading my chinese cartoons.
Too bad everything anime related relies on nyaa to an extent and thus whole system implodes every time the site goes down.
News and YouTube subscriptions, mostly.
>>52995963
Can you do youtube rss feeds without a youtube account. I was using newsbeuter but now it just says unsupported on all my youtube feeds
>>52996013
I currently use this addon to follow youtube, but i would also be interested in an a way to follow uploads through rss.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-subscription-checker/?src=api
>>52996013
>>52996076
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6224202?hl=en
>Get RSS updates for a single channel
>To get an RSS feed of a single channel’s uploads, paste the channel URL into your RSS reader.
First google result, familia. Seems to work fine.
>>52988989
I use it to subscribe to youtube channels
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=
>>52990883
>i don't even care though.
Let's see you not caring when sites stop implementing RSS because not enough normies use it.
Inoreader like sync between Phone and PC.
>>52995873
>All these plebs using rss feeds that have a single point of failure built right in by the cabal
>Have script that automatically searches for and downloads chinese cartoons over xdcc
>only point of failure is rizon, which has like 7 backup servers
Stay pleb
>>52988989
I use RSS on a daily basis. RSS is awesome.
I use it to follow blogs, project releases on github, album releases on bandcamp, youtube channels, news websites, forum threads and a few other things.
For feeds with a lot of activity I use Flym on my smartphone, for everything else I use newsbeuter on desktop.
> Also, discuss the conspiracy to curb RSS because it hasn't been figured out how to put ads in feeds
This is not true, I know quite a few websites that put ads inside of their feed articles. Besides, a lot of news websites only show article summaries.
>>52996293
to be fair, it wouldn't be an issue if HS didn't upload exclusively to nyaa.
I should set up XDCC though.
>>52996300
>Besides, a lot of news websites only show article summaries.
That is what sucks. Force some few line summary then you HAVE to go to their site and see ads and their shity website layout.
I instantly stop subscribing to their feeds and find some other site because let's face it. There are countless sites that copy content from other sites. There is always one that has a nicely formatted article available through RSS.
>>52996352
The cabals successful attempt to force TTS out of the loop was dumb as fuck
Actually the whole of using websites to find torrents is kind of stupid.
DHT is the future. I can't wait for something like ipfs to become popular
>>52988989
I use mine for 4chan and a little bit of news
honestly wish I had more actually good sites to get news and weeb shit from
>>52996013
Here
>>52996123
Didnt work.
>>52996185
This did.
>>52996352
>watching HS
looks like >>52996293 was right in calling you pleb
>>52988989
feedly, senpai. I have around 200 feeds.
>when a websites doesn't have any RSS feed only "follow us on normiebook, twatter, instameme, jewtube, etc."
>>52996572
Nobody is subbing some of the shows I'm watching.
>>52996381
That sucks, yeah.
But thankfully, Flym has an option to "Retrieve full text", which downloads the entire web page and tries to only show the main part of the article.
Quite useful, doesn't work reliably with every website, though.
>>52996621
You are the future we need.
I follow bitlocker? type sites such as newalbumreleases and rlsbb so I am kept abreast of whatever I might want to steal. I don't torrent so this is a good way to know if a band I like has a new album coming out, or if a movie I saw is up for download
>>52988989
I only use RSS for torrenting, and never really found any use for it on normal websites.
I don't really go to a lot of website though. I go to /g/ for tech news, in addition to a local site that I simply refresh every now and then.
Any other news or important event I'll get by having lunch with co-workers or browsing 4chan all day.
RSS on Nyaa torrents is amazing for keeping up with current anime though.
I'm still bitter about what LinkedIn did to Pulse Reader.
That app was absolutely perfect until they went on their crusade to turn it into some sort of community thing and even went on to kill the RSS functionality altogether.
An RSS reader that eventually dropped RSS support in favor of social networks and curated regional news channels. God fucking damn it
>>52997185
>Any other news or important event I'll get by having lunch with co-workers
get out normie, RRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>52990685
>page2rss.com
This might be a savior.
>>52991869
How do you keep up with your favorite sites? You refresh each one of them individually?
>>52997396
Unless the website displays the date or just some counter or shit like that so you get a new notification every time about every meaningless shit. Other than that, good website, I use it a lot.
>>52996013
i just copy the channel url to the search bar in inoreader and it finds it
>>52997360
>pulse pre-buyout
oh anon don't remind me. i used the old app as long as i could before it wouldn't load feeds anymore properly. it still hurts to this day just thinking about it.
>>52989036
Most people have no need to obsessively read every single article on a webpage unlike you.
>>52998151
Who said anything about reading everything? Anon's talking about getting updates when they're posted, not when you decide to check for them.
>>52998190
I can't think of any kind of "updates" normal people even need outside of facebook.
Even if they know about RSS it they still wouldn't. Deal with it fag
>stupid, insipid "push" web technology introduced about 15 years ago that is supposed to deliver content to you instead of you going to it
>rss is part of that
>"push" technology laughed out of the industry because it's insanely idiotic
>rss survives because so many sites implemented it in case "push" technology actually took off
>people started using it because they're stupid and lazy
>the feedback of stupidity continued and rss is still around
Fucking idiots.
>>52998279
Your point? They still don't give a shit you stupid fuck.
>>52998336
Whether or not they care doesn't change RSS's superiority you fucking mongoloid.
>>52998304
What's your problem with push?
>>52998373
You're the only fucking mongoloid here. Nice job moving the goalpost you imbecile
>>52998399
>he wasn't there when push technology was laughed out of the industry and now it's everywhere because no one knows shit about what makes things efficient and simple yet effective
Children, I swear.
>>52998438
I never moved any goalposts dipshit.
>RSS is superior
>but normies won't use it
Again, this doesn't change the fact that RSS is superior.
I am quite tech-savvy, but I have this massive black hole in my knowledge about RSS. I don't know what it even stands for, let alone what it's used for.
Can someone redpill me?
>>52998480
literally what is wikipedia?
>>52998480
Same anon, I've just stumbled upon this thread and currently googling Inoreader. I only used RSS in torrent clients
Opera Mail
QuiteRSS
What else should I use?
>>52998525
Wikipedia is a website which tells you what things are, but sometimes it's nice for someone to tell you about what things are, because they understand the context.
>>52998469
Except "RSS is/isn't superior" was never the argument at all you fat fuck. Why don't you just accept the fact that most people only read internet articles and watch videos for shits and giggles and to pass time? To people who aren't you RSS for "news" sites is everything wrong with the facebook feed. The don't want that shit. They don't care about some stupid article they "missed", in fact, they're probably better off without them. Eating a pile of shit and licking the bowl afterwards isn't superior to taking a handful of chips and dipping them in a bowl of shit.
I hope you get my initial point now.
>>52997432
tfw I just realized I only use 4chan and youtube
what the hell do people do on computers that isn't work stuff?
>>52998690
>Except "RSS is/isn't superior" was never the argument
You're right, you turned it into this argument.
>anon talking about how he uses RSS to receive instant updates >>52989036
>lol u actually ready everything every site posts >>52998151
>I explain >>52998190
>lol normies don't care >>52998234
>>52998765
Read blog posts.
>>52998795
the only blog I read was http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ and now it's dead
>>52998792
>You're right, you turned it into this argument.
No. You asked a question and I answered it.
>how could people get websites updates without RSS?
>they don't. They don't need nor want "websites updates".
It's your own unwillingness to accept such a simple answer.
>>52998452
RSS is an entirely passive collection of XML tags. What the fuck is your problem?
what do you guys use anyway?
>>52998827
The day you find a good blog, follow it via RSS.
You can also follow updates in YouTube pages, but it's not as easy nowadays.
>>52998868
>No. You asked a question and I answered it.
Reread that post. It's very clear that that wasn't me, you illiterate swine.
To follow the latest research on my favourite journals
>>52997432
>sites
I just use Clover. The internet is boring
>>52998905
>updates in YouTube pages
that's what subscriptions are for though
I just realized I have RSS feed subscriptions to podcasts in MusicBee.
>>52998916
>It's very clear that that wasn't me
Yeah I saw that. It's irrelevant.
>>52998940
Nah, you can save time with RSS.
>>52988989
Latest anime.
>>52998965
>save time
wut
I use Thunderbird, how fucked am I
>>52998998
This is what you receive in Opera. Now I can click on the link to watch the video, or even better, rightclick to copy the link to JDownloader.
>>52998953
No it's rather relevant.
>>52999092
How so, shitposter? You accuse me of being the one changing this argument and I showed you exactly how I wasn't. That's all there is to it.
>>52991750
Same here. I fucking hate feedly's app.
>>52999121
You showed me how I changed the argument by telling me I was someone else? Yeah and I'm the shitposter
What reader should I use? I know there's shit for rainmeter but I never got in to using that.
>>52999158
Opera Mail
>>52999213
>opera
Didn't they just got bought by chin chongs? I don't know how to feel about that.
>>52999146
>Yeah and I'm the shitposter
Seeing you still wouldn't show me anything that I've said about RSS qualifies as moving the goalposts pretty much. If you can, do so.
>>52999276
As far as I know, there is the Opera browser and there is Opera Mail. Go to PortableApps and you'll see.
Opera 12.17 was the laste version before they sold their soul to Chrome. Look for it.
>>52988989
Everything. Got about 350 feeds that I follow. Blogs. Torrent downloads. Webcomics. If a site doesn't have rss/xml, I have a little cron job script (basically, https://thp.io/2008/urlwatch/ hacked to bits) set up on my server to watch for changes to sites that then generates a simple RSS feed for each so I can then check it. Also useful for the sites I build at work so I can make sure they're being updated properly.
Was using feedly, now run my own using http://feedafever.com - bit more control over feeds and they don't clear old posts out after 30 days. Mostly read stuff through http://reederapp.com on my Mac/iOS devices though.
>>52998234
>I can't think of any kind of "updates" normal people even need outside of facebook.
millions of normies use reddit
(they could use rss for updates, but very very few do)
There are ads in RSS, and have been since its inception. You might not like the ads, you could just as easily filter them like you would while browsing, but rss has always had the capability to contain ads.
How do you RSS /g/? I'm the kind of pleb that uses Bamboo and calls it a day.
>>52989009
Yes, this.
>>52995963
I´m liking Inoreader, I just hate the audacity of them inserting their own advertisement into the posts of the original bloggers, which also appear on a mobile client
