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Is restoring the rss/etc feed viewing and subscribing capability possible? #85

Closed mzso closed 3 years ago

mzso commented 3 years ago

Kind of sucks that I can't do it anymore.

I didn't use the livemarks, but why on earth did they remove the subscribe and view feature as well? It worked fine with external services

zakius commented 3 years ago

There are extensions for preview, some of which provide subscription support for common services (like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feed-preview/ if you want subscription or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rsspreview/ if you prefer the classic preview layout), but honestly I believe using detection mechanism of your reader/service is the most reliable (if it has any of course) as the most basic one often isn't enough (like for YouTube, where it doesn't update the head section of markup when navigation and doesn't trigger history events so you have to use MutationObserver and build feed links from the address instead of relying on ones provided in head)

xiaoxiaoflood commented 3 years ago

It's probably possible, but I won't work on it because I don't use it, sorry. I recommend Inoreader.com, that's what I use.

mzso commented 3 years ago

@xiaoxiaoflood commented on 2021. aug. 1. 07:55 CEST:

It's probably possible, but I won't work on it because I don't use it, sorry. I recommend Inoreader.com, that's what I use.

I also use Inoreader. But without the feed discovery and subscription feature it's more troublesome.

@zakius commented on 2021. jún. 25. 09:14 CEST:

There are extensions for preview, some of which provide subscription support for common services (like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feed-preview/ if you want subscription or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rsspreview/ if you prefer the classic preview layout), but honestly I believe using detection mechanism of your reader/service is the most reliable (if it has any of course) as the most basic one often isn't enough (like for YouTube, where it doesn't update the head section of markup when navigation and doesn't trigger history events so you have to use MutationObserver and build feed links from the address instead of relying on ones provided in head)

I missed this reply. Thanks I'll have a look at them. I actually used multiple services. Notably, besides Inoreader, Blogtrottr, which sent new items via e-mail, for an interval. It is useful for feeds that rarely get updated.

peterwx commented 3 years ago

@mzso Feedbro extension has detection, preview, subscribing (but no sync), filter (on both title and content) capabilities. One can add feeds from Twitter, Reddit and Youtube as well - (for the full list, view the store description). Full page content loading is possible but not consistent - results vary with each website. I'll also mention that there are userscripts for Feedly and Inoreader that enable filtering capabilities and full page content loading. Such features, which are part of paid plans in those web services can be had at no cost with the combination of scripts and extensions mentioned.

mzso commented 3 years ago

@peterwx Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.