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Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service

31 points by bjhess

by palata

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I love RSS as a way to subscribe to news feeds. But I want my RSS to do just that: when I click on the link, I want it to open the original website.
I have tried the "reader" part of many RSS apps, and to me it always sucks. If the original website is unreadable, I just don't subscribe to it. It if is nicely done, then the RSS reader usually makes it worse.

by michaelsmanley

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This reminds me of one of my favorite Mac apps ever, Feeder:
https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/
Literally, the only app I miss after leaving the Apple ecosystem.
The question I always have is how to keep a permanent archive of entries for long-running publication histories. You don't want the feed to grow without bounds, so paging (by time period or sliding windows of X entries) seems useful. Atom feeds have RFC 5005 links. I don't recall such for RSS 2.0, but it wouldn't be that hard to extend, I guess.

by j3s

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clever. i personally don't see the appeal of limiting my blog to rss readers only - i like having a web link that can be shared. this would almost be better as a sort of covert blog, like maybe a smallnet adjacent thing -- no potential to be shared on hackernews is a pro for many ppl.

by fudgeonastick

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I once implemented my blog as pure RSS, but also a website that could render arbitrary RSS feeds as a normal looking blog. (Passing the RSS feed via query parameter).
The nice part was that the bit that was mine was just a single static file.
The awkward part was the URLs looked crappy.

by evanwalsh

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by ymolodtsov

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by xnx

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