It doesn't matter if RSS is 'dying'

zacusca.net

13 points·mbanerjeepalmer··3 comments

Aside from the clickbait headline (hey, it worked on me) this seems cool...but I don't see myself using it. Why? I have a bunch of unread posts (either new or old) that I would lose by doing an export/import. Import would result in me only having the most recent posts from each feed. And I'd have to use this tool frequently to categorise new feeds? Painful. Unless I'm missing a way to import just the categories and keep all my existing posts and unread items? I use FreshRSS.

Clickbait headlines are a necessary evil.

Note first that the piece is not about zacusca.net itself. It's saying 'You should go out of your way to build on a protocol. Even if the protocol is 'dead'. Perhaps I can clarify that.

Regarding Zacusca, I appreciate you explaining why it doesn't seem useful. First, it's not for everyone. Some people like reverse chron as an algorithm. Second, let me clarify how the pipeline works. But I think I explain the import/export poorly: - you export the feed addresses - you set up the categories - Zacusca continously polls the imported feeds, sorts them into the categories and exposes the categories as new feeds

So it's fire and forget. And you can keep your existing feeds as duplicates if you want.

I did understand how it works and that you export the organised addresses. I just don't see a neat way of making use of them. I don't want duplicates and I don't want to lose my unread posts. Could there be a way of organising them in-place. Or I could reproduce the new organisation by hand.

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