[HN Gopher] A New Take on RSS
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       A New Take on RSS
        
       Author : jacobobryant
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2020-12-10 18:40 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (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.
        
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