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rss bot - Too old to die young :godmode:

Isn't it dead and gone? Current state of RSS

Yes, rss isn't branch a new technology it was there since 1999. Few years ago there was hype that Twitter killed RSS. But as you will see RSS is still here as well as Twitter.

According to Wikipedia:

Several major sites such as Facebook and Twitter previously offered RSS feeds but have reduced or removed support. Additionally, widely used readers such as Shiira, FeedDemon, and Google Reader have been discontinued having cited declining popularity in RSS. RSS support was removed in OS X Mountain Lion's versions of Mail and Safari, although the features were partially restored in Safari 8. As of August 2015, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer include RSS support by default, while Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge do not. Additionally, reader services such as Feedly provide synchronization between desktop RSS readers and mobile devices.

Anyway from my point of few it was very cool idea to describe updates of web page in declarative way. It looks very natural.

Even so there some controversial issues:

  • 📦 XML - in the modern world where we have JSON and YAML XML looks strange and clumsy

Where can I get it

📢 podcasts

  • BBC The Science Hour RSS podcast about frontier of science in the different topics
  • The Talking Machines RSS podcast about machine learning, moved from soundcloud, what makes in more problematic to subscribe it through sound cloud

📰 blogs

💬 communities

🚧 IN PROGRESS: How to use RSS bot?

  • start chat with the RSS Bot
  • ask her to send you updates about certain page

🚧 TODO: How messenger could be useful?

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