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@adrien.plazas I feel like those are two separate applications. Plenty of people use "read it later" services but not RSS feeds, as well as the other way around.
Personally I also feel like RSS is a bit broken as a product, because there's no discovery (unless you use a proprietary hosted service), and manually hunting for RSS URLs is a horrible experience.
I feel like those are two separate applications. Plenty of people use "read it later" services but not RSS feeds, as well as the other way around.
I personnaly am very annoyed by the fact that I need to use two "article I have to check out" applications who conceptually both are so close. :/ In both cases:
I have several article feeds,
I can quickly check the articles and decide I am not interested,
I can read them comfortably with a simplified view,
I can archive them,
I can mark them as read…
The only difference is in the feeds, in one case there are public feeds I add because I consider most of the articles they are going to throw at me are interesting enough, and in the other case there are personal feeds to which I add articles from other applications like my web browser.
Personally I also feel like RSS is a bit broken as a product, because there's no discovery (unless you use a proprietary hosted service), and manually hunting for RSS URLs is a horrible experience.
Eh, another case of "great minds think alike", I was thinking just an hour ago that the "discover" feature of Feedly was probably the only feature I would miss from it, and we could replicate it by having a public crowdsourced feed URL archive, we could even suggest users to automatically and anonymously submit the feeds they add to the application to that archive and browse it from the application.
I love the idea. Having a single application to aggregate contents that I could download (eg. at home with wifi) and read later on (in public transports without any need of bandwidth) would be fantastic. For most users, I believe the function is the most important thing, not the protocol behind it.
Moreover, an important benefit of the RSS protocol is it let you get in touch with web contents without any need to register or provide any personal credentials (by contrast to feedly), which fits well with the overall philosophy of the librem5.
Retrieving RSS feeds from web pages could be eased by some buttons (eg. this feature does exists in firefox browser, see: ). I don't know if epiphany has this feature, but saving articles or subscribing to a feed by a single click from the web browser, sending them to the reader/feed app for later use would be fantastic.