[HN Gopher] A New Take on RSS ___________________________________________________________________ A New Take on RSS Author : jacobobryant Score : 54 points Date : 2020-12-10 18:40 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (findka.com) (TXT) w3m dump (findka.com) | ljoshua wrote: | This is interesting. It reminds of and yet feels the inverse to | Shaun Inman's old Fever RSS reader, where it would try to | identify the "hot" articles by the ones most linked to by various | feeds. | | Ah, I miss the good ol' (though perhaps slightly less | productive!) days of checking into my RSS reader a few times a | day. Google Reader and Fever were my favorites. | dsr_ wrote: | I assume that there are people who want to only see articles | which are similar to the ones that they've already seen, but that | defeats the purpose of RSS for me. | | I want to see _new_ things from the same _sources_ that I 've | already identified as being interesting. To that end, I | frequently add subscriptions to a category called "New", and | after a dozen articles or so either file it properly or stop | pulling it. | | Most RSS readers can handle this workflow. | jacobobryant wrote: | Great. I'm not claiming that existing RSS aggregators are | broken, but this method is certainly better for me personally. | Findka's meant to make things a little more automatic for those | who want to spend very little time on managing their sources. | The bandit algorithm makes it so you don't need to explicitly | mark which sources you've decided are interesting. And the | main, non-RSS part of Findka (article recommendations via | collaborative filtering) helps expose you to new articles and | sources. | | This new feature is probably most useful for people who aren't | already using RSS regularly. | jacobobryant wrote: | Hey, nice to see this made it to the front page :). I launched | this app on HN in October by the way: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24921127 | | My current, somewhat vague end vision for Findka is to be a | stream processing tool for end users. You subscribe to a number | of feeds/streams/sources, and then Findka lets you transform them | into output feeds/sinks. You'll be able to choose how much you | want algorithms to help out. The goal is "all your content in one | place," but more sophisticated than what you can do now with | current aggregators like Feedly. | jacobobryant wrote: | Tweet storm with a bit more info: | https://twitter.com/Endless_WebDev/status/133715064374455910... | pferde wrote: | Why not go with a regular blog post where you can fit as much | text as you want, instead of torturing a micro-blogging | platform for this? | | It's like using screws as nails. It can be made to work | somewhat, but it's not very usable. | jacobobryant wrote: | Because I was responding to someone's tweet. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-12-10 23:00 UTC)