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boastful_inabaon Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?

I'm partway through a rewrite of http://www.youneedfeeds.com/ I should get onto that again!

boastful_inabaon Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases

This doesn't exist on Amazon Japan, which is annoying. It does make me wonder though - how much code is actually in common between the various country-specific Amazons?

boastful_inabaon The Script Boring Company Drivers Have to Recite About Musk

This is actually very similar to a scene in one of the Jumanji sequels!

boastful_inabaon Archive and genealogy of all Quake 1 bots

IIRC correctly Valve's inhouse TF2 bots mimic target accquisition times, mouse innaccuracy and other things. They had a blog post explaining it around release, but I can't find it.

boastful_inabaon Blender 2.93 LTS

It's been a very long time since I used Blender. The UI update appears to have changed enough that I no longer recognise the workflow. Is there still an equivalent to the "space key brings up an everything menu"? I couldn't seem to trigger than when I was playing around with the new stuff.

boastful_inabaon 10 Years of Open-Source Visualization: Did I learn anything from D3.js?

This might be slightly off-topic, but I can't seem to find a direct solution.

I'm looking to build a complex dependency/timeline graph for a web of interconnected stories in a media franchise. Each story has a release date where it needs to appear, and an arbitrary list of dependencies for previous episodes/stories/interludes which would have a line drawn to that dependency. The end result would be a sort of hybrid digraph/timeline, enabling a reader to get the 'minimum path' to catch up to a certain story in the collection.

D3 looked promising, but there's no direct equivalent I can see in the examples. For those that are experienced with D3, is that sort of thing achievable? Should I be looking at D3 or something else?

boastful_inabaon RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

I chose 'web feeds' since it covered both RSS/ATOM and avoided the need to define their acronym meaning. My view stats were very low last time I checked, but I haven't done much in the way of promotion either. (I did look into keyword advertising but that was prohibitively expensive.) I'll probably try for another round of organic promotion once I do the site overhaul.

boastful_inabaon RSSHub: Everything Is RSSible

Hey, looks like you had a very similar idea to me! https://www.youneedfeeds.com/ Though you've gone for the 'simple one-pager' approach where I tried to sell people on it via a full site. I was going to do a visual revamp sometime soon, hopefully include more readers etc but time has been an issue.

boastful_inabaon Ask HN: Is RSS dead?

Hey, I'm trying to revive it somewhat! You Need Feeds is my attempt to create an explainer and RSS promo page. (I admit the copy and design needs a refresh, and I still haven't done a proper Android page...) https://www.youneedfeeds.com/ Suggestions welcome...

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

Well, just copy+paste their base user URL into your feed reader. I believe the feeds are in the header tags, so your reader will find them and present you with the options.

For example, copying

https://mastodon.social/@b_cavello (the URL for the main Mastodon artist)

will allow you to subscribe to either

https://mastodon.social/users/b_cavello.atom

https://mastodon.social/users/b_cavello.rss

in your reader.

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

I do mention an option for that here, actually! https://www.youneedfeeds.com/your-favourite-site-is-now-your...

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

Yeah, I wanted to provide a one stop shop for introducing a user to web feeds. I realised the only main option available was http://www.whatisrss.com/ , and that's not really user friendly. It even links to My Yahoo, which doesn't support RSS anymore IIRC!

You'll have to thank the designers of the template I bought, I guess. :)

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

Try pushing the non-intermediation angle, perhaps? Tell your colleagues that with RSS you don't have to fight Twitter/FB's algorithms to surface your latest content to users.

Plus, having a proper web feed actually helps with your Google rank as it convinces googlebot that your site is alive.

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

Feed43 is based around pattern matching - it mostly assumes a well-structured HTML document with predictable tags, and it's that method for every site. You seem to have some sort of custom plugin architecture, I guess?

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

https://www.youneedfeeds.com/web-based/

Feedly (and others) have free tiers available. It's worth a shot again - especially for zero dollars.

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

Thanks!

https://www.youneedfeeds.com/news/2018/9/9/you-need-feeds-is...

I don't actually have an android device myself, so I'm not really capable of evaluating the readers in that ecosystem. I do want to take suggestions though! (Maybe I should just make the page, but as a stub page redirecting to the blog post.)

As I mentioned at the end of the starter packs page, I'm taking suggestions via the About page. I didn't think of a Trello board, though - that's worth looking into.

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

Interesting. How's this one going to handle the upcoming removal of native feed support from Firefox? Have you written a parser?

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

Yeah, part of what kicked this whole project off was seeing the news of native RSS support being removed from Firefox. I thought to myself "I have to do something about this"

Sub-pages not present on the navigation menu might be a good idea. I'll definitely look into that.

I'm staying anonymous because I want the focus to be on the content, not me. (That, and I don't want some crazy who wants the enemy half of the Fightbox eliminated tracking me down.)

EDIT: I think I fixed it. Maybe. What site you you mean by "LI"?

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

Mastodon supports ATOM natively actually. I'm subscribed to one guy's feed that way right now!

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

Thanks!

Ah, I did send you an email on the 5th of this month, asking for a logo, screenshot and preferred description. (As for why I skipped you in the end - I might have had issues importing my OPML to get a good comparative screenshot for Newsblur? I can't quite remember, it was late at night a few weeks ago.) Happy to add you though!

That's a good idea - I should alter the front page copy under the pictures to talk about that.

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

Thanks! Good to hear it.

boastful_inabaon Show HN: You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds

Huh, interesting! How do you think your site compares to say, Feed43?