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Comment by icebraining | Hacker News Reader

I actually read everything by RSS except HN, since the posts here often get better over time, thanks to comments, so they're less suitable for RSS, in my opinion.

By the way, if you follow YouTube channels, not only do they still provide RSS feeds, as you can get a nice OPML file of all the channels you subscribe to: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager (scroll to the bottom)

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I use RSS for following YouTube channels, but the only problem I have is that I have to click on each video, I'd like a RSS client to create a custom playlist, at least for all the music videos.

I used to use YouTube's email notifications, but they would skip some videos randomly, and I'd be left wondering what videos I missed.

Content creators can choose to disable notifications on specific videos.

Creators sometimes do this if they publish more videos than usual, or of the video is different from their normal content.

Also when you subscribe you now also have to click the bell next to the subscribe button to get all notifications.

YouTube itself also has a built in subscription feed that lists all videos published by channels you subscribe to. It also lists the channels with an icon next to each if they have unwatched video.

That's interesting, my subscriptions only update once or twice a week so I never felt that need.

How do you see it working? Create and play a playlist of currently unviewed videos?

Exactly, a "Make playlist" button on either a folder of YouTube channels, or on just a channel, that would make a custom playlist of all unviewed videos.

I use Feedly for this exact thing! YouTube's recommendations were either distracting or just not relevant. Feedly embeds the video right in the reader so no going to YouTube even. And now I only get the videos I want to watch.

hckrnews.com is the RSS style interface I used to read HN.

What are you using to aggregate the feeds?

Self-hosted TinyTinyRSS on a cheap VPS (alongside my email).

Off-topic: what do you use for self-hosted email? I'm considering abandoning it and going back to gmail/fastmail, for the constant configuration hassle (DKIM/SPF, etc.) causing sent/received emails to be incorrectly marked as spam and/or refused :-/

Any "sane defaults, regular updates, impossible to shoot yourself in the foot" package to recommend?

I self-hosted for a long time but I eventually switched to fastmail mostly because, no matter how much I tweaked, I couldn’t get the spam down to a tolerable level and I got sick of tweaking the weighting on the various filters in spamassassin.

I use https://mailinabox.email which handles everything you just mentioned.

Looks neat. Thanks!

https://mailcow.email

https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign

https://mailinabox.email

FreeBSD-specific: http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=4

Thanks :)

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