RSS was released 25 years ago today

The original decentralized social network. Still works great today - I really like NetNewsWire as a reader, it has good read state sync between macOS and iOS.

FeedDemon Pro [0] -> Google Reader -> a lot of experimenting with all the new readers before finally settling on Newsblur [1, 2] -> TT RSS [3] for a while, until my install had some issues -> I decided to try FreshRSS [4] which I’ve been using since.

[0]: http://www.feeddemon.com/

[1]: https://newsblur.com/

[2]: Used from 2013 to 2018, when the prices were raised, as I was using pretty much none of its advanced features. It’s selfhostable, but pretty involved.

[3]: https://tt-rss.org

[4]: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

I remember those days when every web design worth its salt would have RSS icons on literally everything!

My favorites were sites that required a login to view the feeds, which AFAIK no RSS reader supported, making those feeds basically useless. But, they got to include the icon, which was what was important!

Been using Newsblur for a while after having tried out almost everything out there for android, Windows, Linux or the web. Really like that you can like/dislike authors or publishers to get more/none of their posts. Really helps remove the clutter which I don't like.

Does anyone know of a way to get daily summaries of noisy websites? Say, a website publishes around 200 of new articles which appear in the feed. What if instead of that, I get a single post with all the day's article titles and links so that I can quickly go to what peeks my interest? Category-wise per day would also be fine.

RSS is a really beautiful thing. It saves me from the distractions and distractions of the internet. I love. I use Feedly as an RSS reader, it is a very nice application.

RSS, one of the net's few and great unsung/unseen killer apps. An internet duct tape.

As the creator of feedle (https://feedle.world), marking RSS's 25th anniversary hits close to home. RSS was among the first things I added to my arsenal when I first experienced the web, more than two decades ago. It is still one of the undoubted pillars of the decentralized web even to this day, and I've wanted to give my small contribution back, hoping that through sites like feedle, even more people will get to experience the magic that is RSS.

Cheers, RSS! Here is to another 25 years (and more)!

Read this thanks to RSS. People can complain about the internet decaying, but thanks to RSS i get to effortlessly pick the sources of information i get, based on quality, and so my Internet experience is lovely, even if 99% of it by unfiltered volume is crap .

Makes me feel old ... I wrote one of my school essays on RSS

Obligatory "I miss Aaron" comment [1].

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/

A big thanks to the many many who made it so useful and widely used.

R.V.Guha

RSS and old.Reddit.com are the only ways I read Reddit.

Thanks to my RSS feed curation, I often hear from friends, "Wow, I can't believe you missed that! It was all over the news this week" and also "Hey, that's interesting! Where do you find all this stuff?".