Ask HN: How many RSS feeds do you subscribe to?

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by LorenDB • 2 years ago

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I've recently started collecting RSS feeds, and according to Tiny Tiny RSS, I have 177 feeds so far (mostly small tech blogs). How many feeds do you read, and what topics do you tend to subscribe to?

stop50• 2 years ago

Most of them are comics(around 100), then around 20 different tech sites, a few feeds of software that i use, a few blogs and around 30 youtube channels.

OliveMate• 2 years ago

6, all small indie blogs. Some of them about a specific interest, but a few that are just folk making simple observations - each one just as interesting to me. I could definitely do with following more.

subtra3t• 2 years ago

Less than 20. Most mirror the chapters of manga I like, and some are blogs I regularly find interesting.

beardyw2• 2 years ago

36. Many of them are inactive and I should clear them out. Just got rid of F1 because I watch on catch up and I was fearful it might have spoilers - season starts this weekend.

beardyw2• 2 years ago

Sorry - what sites. Stand outs for me are

Samuel Pepys Diary - now over a year into it. Feed aligned with weekday and approx date.

Ian Visits - great serendipitous resource for Londoners.

https://www.pepysdiary.com/

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/

stareatgoats• 2 years ago

Around 100 ATM, and counting as I am moving my email newsletters over to RSS where possible. All sorts of topics, but luckily I can sort them into folders according to priority.

Some folders I follow with devotion (niche tech things where I want to keep tabs, environment and health, media scrutiny blogs). Others, (like MSM) I follow with half an eye.

darekkay• 2 years ago

193: developer blogs, photography blogs, GitHub releases, YouTube channels, a few monitored keywords (like the "RSS" keyword that got me to this very thread ;) )

kevincox2• 2 years ago

I currently have 533 healthy feeds, 20 unhealthy feeds.

However the vast majority of these are low-volume, many are probably dead (even the ones not explicitly unhealthy).

I get roughly 1k new entries a month.

sujayk_33• 2 years ago

Can you read that much content?

LorenDB• 2 years ago

That boils down to less than 35/day. I'd call that entirely reasonable.

kevincox2• 2 years ago

Yes. I mean a lot of the more frequent ones are things like comics that are fast to read. A few of them I mostly skim headlines. But I do read/watch most of them start-to-finish. Not as-they-happen, often I build up quite a backlog but on average I get through it. Right now I am sitting at basically zero items to read/watch.

One exception is my "Background Videos" category which I get a bit more than I watch. I also probably delete half based on just looking at the title. They are mostly speedrun videos that I play while doing light work. I am currently watching videos from January and falling behind a little. But It is easy to both get more selective in the ones I watch and clean it out if I get way too behind.

smcleod• 2 years ago

Around 55~

LopovJack• 2 years ago

Around 50. Technology, News, Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube, and some random stuff I find interesting (car, bikes).

sphars• 2 years ago

Currently at 85 feeds in my self-hosted FreshRSS instance. There's probably about 10% that are inactive (I was using nitter's RSS feature for some twitter accounts). Mostly tech sites/blogs, quite a few webcomics, and some YouTube channels (I don't log into YouTube all that often).

bthallplz• 2 years ago

Currently I have 108 in Inoreader, but there's about 20 that need to be taken out or fixed because they're dead/erroring out. Of those, I only check about 10 semi-regularly.

I need to go through and prune the others and organize them by topic. I'll soon add in feeds for various YouTube channels I want to keep updated on without checking the unreliable and tedious Subscriptions feed on YouTube.

The main feeds I've been checking over past months are related to publishing and self publishing, software development, services I like, games I'm interested in, VR developments, and creators I enjoy.

brudgers• 2 years ago

Zero.

Like most people.

Good luck.

menshiki• 2 years ago

Around 40. Most are tech news and tech blogs.

cbrgm• 2 years ago

Can some of you provide some good ones? I'm always curious what other people are subscribing to.

kondrei• 2 years ago

Me too

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