I see bots trying to generate feeds in my access logs. Some of them are coded very poorly, ignore cache-controls, re-check articles every 30 seconds indefinitely. So it would seem they are still used. daily-digest/1.0 (Article Reader) is the worst one I have seen thus far.
I have a low volume rss feed for my static-HTML articles, but I'm also using rss for the embedded mastodon feed on my website.
https://brynet.ca/
Yes, every day.
I see bots trying to generate feeds in my access logs. Some of them are coded very poorly, ignore cache-controls, re-check articles every 30 seconds indefinitely. So it would seem they are still used. daily-digest/1.0 (Article Reader) is the worst one I have seen thus far.
How else could I find the interesting 1-3% of HN in a reasonable amount of time?
Yes. I just debugged problems with our RSS feed at work. I have my own intelligent RSS reader called YOShInOn which learns my preferences.
Yes
Yes. It's how I browse HN.
Rss for articles +25 points to Pushover onto my phone.
Every day. Who doesn’t?
Yes