to lift restrictions Nov 8 for vaccinated foreign travelers market reactsĥ N 04:00 2.5K Reuters impact: U.S. Newsboat 2.10.2 - Articles in feed 'Reuters News Agency' (10 unread, 10 total) - ġ N 06:44 1.2K Reuters exclusively reports Renault sees bigger production hit from chip shortage market reacts 2 N 06:52 1.3K Reuters exclusively reports India presses Qatar for delayed LNG as power crisis mountsģ N 06:50 1.4K Reuters reports Fortescue’s Forrest says Australia must commit to carbon cuts to keep green energy advantageĤ N 05:15 1.3K Reuters reveals U.S. These are the results that I get in my RSS reader, they seem very different from : It looks like it's "", which may be different from ? But for whatever reason it has been far more valuable to me than any other form of content syndication online. It's mostly because of how RSS originated with blogs I guess, and who was involved in designing it. I have learned a lot from studies, reference works, long form analysis, and books - basically all the quality knowledge I possess has come from one of these sources.Īt best social media has given me occasional links to these things (scattered among an ocean of junk information). This matters to me because at a certain point I realized - I have basically never read anything short form on social media which enriched me in a meaningful way. Of course RSS is a very imprecise filter, but it's basically the antithesis of a Twitter or Facebook feed, where everything is short form and you tend to see whatever serves the platform's commercial interests (i.e. It turns out that these two properties produce a pretty good signal to noise ratio which filters out precisely the kind of trash that has ruined the web over the last decade or two (long form content at least has the possibility of teaching you something or presenting an idea with some kind of rigor and since RSS isn't great at monetization, the worst offenders in media tend to deprioritize it). The only way to change the blasted columns is to find an almost invisible icon, lost in the right-hand side of the main panel after the column names, and left-click on it.I am a big fan of RSS one of the reasons (alluded to by this article) is the type of content that tends to get exposed via RSS.įrequently the type of content that gets syndicated via RSS is long form and non-commercial. Would right-clicking on the columns titles open a context menu ? That would have been too obvious. It’s not in Options, either (another mess). That would be in the View menu, right ? Nope. Just a few days ago, I was trying to do something trivial, that I had done in the past, but could not remember how to do : change the columns displayed. That is, when they are in the menus at all. Sure, there’s a forum, but it’s remarkable for its total lack of stickies, tutorials or how-to’s, the Google captcha which throws you in an endless loop of fire hydrants and bicycles when you want to log in, the fact they insist on putting the Russian part of it on top (we get it that Russians make some very good programs, but guys, apart from you 145 million people, no one else speaks Russian), and… the complete lack of a search function.Īlso, Quite RSS features have been sprayed across its menus in a seemingly random manner. After 8 years, no one has been able to hammer out something resembling an online manual (never mind an embedded one, or, God forbid, a pdf). My favorite one is the total lack of any form of help. Now to be completely fair, there are, indeed, some aspects of that irreplaceable program which are, indeed, beta-like. Is that an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for self-disparagement ? the result of a silly a bet among devs never to come out of beta ? a practical joke ? Note that this is still supposed to be a beta, after 8 years of developement : it’s v. I just upgraded to the previous version, I’m now off to evaluate the last one. Thanks, Martin, for keeping alive the 10-member club of Quite RSS diehards.
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