Technology

Reddit tried to remove https://i.reddit.com, but they forgot that you could also access it by going to https://reddit.com/.i

Wouldn't be surprised if they would remove RSS feeds but forgot they exist

The only non-infurating way to read reddit. If it's gone people who didn't care so far might actually feel inconvenienced and move out.

it's spez. He'll say they're losing 200 trillion a year.

There's an absolutely practical reason for doing it that's consistent with everything they've done so far - they want to control how we get to and see Reddit. So that they can advertise in the feed etc.

RSS means you can skip the normal feed (where they would advertise) and go straight to the post.

It's not a good idea - they seem to have forgotten that user hostile decisions reduce the number of users - but it does make sense in their twisted world. I'm amazed they still work.

Yeah one major reason RSS has died is because content makers moved away from it as it bypassed their own sites advert serving, particularly if anything more than titles are shared. Reddit will go the same way. Also many content sites have moved to tricks to track and monetise users landing on their pages with share to facebook, facebook like, share to twitter etc buttons (which also passively track people just by a user loading a page with them on). Those all help feed the big tracking systems that social media companies like Facebook use to monetise users data by spying on them, profiling them and selling or using information for marketing; so RSS feeds also deminish that income source.

Google has done it's part in this - it killed Google Reader which was a popular RSS reader. It wasn't a huge product but looking back it makes sense to kill it when it also wants to track people across the internet and also concerns it may have to pay content providers for their content.

I used to have it set up so it gave me a personal RSS feed of replies to me. I don't remember the details because it was a really long time ago, but it was kind of cool and I pitched it to a couple other places that needed notifications but didn't have mobile apps (none bought in though).

Do you have a good way to find rss feeds? I'm looking to emulate my own hacker news in terms of non-tech interesting articles, and sometimes I feel lost trying to find feeds to subscribe to

It will depends on what traffic looks like in the first week of July. If the traffic in the official apps and web dips too much then they will have to hang on to everything that drives any traffic.

put .rss on the end of the subreddit url and add to a reader. I made a multireddit containing all of my subs, and access it like this (the multireddit has to be marked public: https://www.reddit.com/user/username/m/multiredditname/.rss

https://reddit.0qz.fun/r/news.json

There are a lot of options but this site will turn the JSON into XML for RSS. If you want it in JSON format you can just use Reddit

https://reddit.com/r/news.json

Edit: Reddit also does RSS but it is kinda gross

https://reddit.com/r/news/.rss

Most sites do not have RSS feeds now. I have to employ a lot of tricks to get RSS feeds for some sites I want.

Thing with me is I don't want the raw stream of dozens of articles each day. I've used RSS feeds with Reddit for years now using the Top Week feed for each important subreddit. I haven't been able to find a way to get that sort of curated information stream anywhere else. Essentially I get around the top 12 articles/pictures/text-posts each day that real people think are actually important for each of my interests. Open to suggestions, though.

I love Feedly. Been using it daily since the loss of Google reader