What's your view on RSS - is it dead technology?

[DownPW]

Personally I don’t use them, I go manually to the sites I need but I understand their usefulness.

what do you use as an aggregator?

[phenomlab]

what do you use as an aggregator?

@DownPW In my case, I actually use the RSS plugin for NodeBB

[JAC]

@phenomlab looking to use this in my next attempt .

[phenomlab]

@JAC if you pair that with OGProxy, you’ll have a nice preview of the url also.

https://sudonix.org/topic/498/setup-ogproxy-for-use-in-nodebb?_=1721249048145

[JAC]

@phenomlab looks very interesting, good work!

[crazycells]

I still do use RSS, I am regularly getting news from 3 government agencies and new content from one website to my Thunderbird. Especially, since government agencies do not release news regularly, it is nice not to have to check them regularly.

I previously mentioned that I am using Thunderbird as my email client, I am also using it as my RSS reader.

https://sudonix.org/post/8832

[phenomlab]

@crazycells I’ve been using RSS for years. I’ve recently implemented it at work, where I have setup a NodeBB build that is designed to act as a Knowledge Base with articles (there are thousands in there now), and I also use the RSS feed plugin to capture security news, and regular updates of data breaches etc. Extremely useful.

[crazycells]

@phenomlab Yes, I previously tested this to subscribe a topic at our NodeBB forum, and it was working great! However, since I visit our forum regularly, I deleted that feed later.

[phenomlab]

@crazycells We connect to around 20 different RSS feeds so we can get “breaking news” which for the recent CrowdStrike issue, was very useful.

[crazycells]

@phenomlab yeah, it makes sense… actually when I heard the news, you came to my mind but because of my busy schedule last week I could not log in to the forum…

[phenomlab]

@JAC would be keen to get your views around RSS feeds

[Madchatthew]

I used to use RSS feeds as well. Especially when I was in IT. It is a great way to just get the articles that pertain to you and not have to put up with all the fluff from the websites.

[JAC]

@phenomlab said in What's your view on RSS - is it dead technology?:

@JAC would be keen to get your views around RSS feeds

I’ve used RSS feeds over the years to pull in articles on forums and websites. I also have an RSS feed app on my phone that contains selective football news, it’s still an incredibly handful tool for me.