RSS - Really Simple Syndication

Behance

Behance's autodiscoverable RSS Feeds do not work*, u/gurkoz found that there are working hidden feeds:

"https://www.behance.net/feeds/user?username=" + behanceUserName

Example for user bernhardlang:
https://www.behance.net/feeds/user?username=bernhardlang

* All Behance profile pages show the same RSS Feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/behance/vorr) which, although it looks like the feed for the user vorr, it contains posts from all users. I find it useful for discovering new artists.

DeviantArt

DeviantArt doesn't have RSS autodiscovery but they have RSS Feeds. From their documentation):

"https://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?type=deviation&q=by%3A" + deviantArtUsername + "+sort%3Atime+meta%3Aall"

Example for user loish:
https://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?type=deviation&q=by%3Aloish+sort%3Atime+meta%3Aall

Do you know of other sites with hidden RSS feeds?

TL;DR: The Times (UK) no longer provides RSS Feeds, Open RSS does.

Content summary:

• Google removes RSS button from Chrome browser
• Google acquires FeedBurner and limits RSS
• Google shuts down Google Reader
• Google removes RSS from Google Alerts
• Google kills its RSS browser extension
• Google removes RSS integration from Google News
• Google's still at it...

Is it possible to have an RSS feed for Artstation or DeviantArt or maybe other art websites that is filtered by a search term?

For example if I wanted to search/filter for "spaceship" and I wanted to get an RSS feed of all new artworks that would be found by that search term.

Can this be done? I'm pretty new to RSS feeds

very good self-hosted RSS reader

cross-post: https://lemmy.ml/post/209401

I usually use a feed reader to gather news, but some news sites use newsletters instead of distributing feeds. As a user, is there any advantage to receive news using newsletters over feeds?

I know the Email isn't everyone's favourite RSS reader but it works really well for me. I wasn't happy with any of the existing services so I started my own.

https://feedmail.org is a low-cost RSS-to-Email service with nice clean templates. I'm happy to answer any questions.

I use RSS feeds and mpv to watch YouTube without visiting youtube.com. This post shows how you can configure mpv to use yt-dlp instead of the abandoned youtube-dl.

https://datorss.com/feeds

This link argues no. I would argue yes, because of a technical solution and a phenomenon I've observed.

The technical problem:

It’s not enough to interleave their posts into a “river” or “stream” paradigm, where only the most recent N items are shown in one big, combined, reverse-chronological list (much like a Twitter timeline), because many of them would get buried in the noise of higher-volume feeds and people’s tweets.

One of the really nice things about RSS is what it doesn't do. It doesn't order your content by obscure algorithms aiming to vacuum you further and further into an advertising-driven time suck, as Twitter now does.

That doesn't mean, however, that your only option is to present behavior chronologically.

The technical solution: I have my RSS reader do a round-robin ordering for each page displayed, so the higher-volume feeds pool at the bottom. This effect is more noted with a larger page size. For me, this works well enough. I don't see why marking "read all" is a bad thing, and I do it decently regularly.

The phenomenon: Navigating directly to lifehacker.com or whatever other high-volume site feels like gambling. All the colorful previews are engaging, and it all seems to grab me more than my staid feed reader's presentation. It's tempting to roll the dice and see if there's something new. It makes me less this to consume everything in my feed reader is what I guess I'm saying. That's valuable to me.

• Explore the press with no middlemen between the newspapers and your computer.
• Discover millions of results within seconds and explore the last ones in Firefox via this addon.
• Select your press review and export it in a few clicks.

Spotifeed is a simple service to convert Spotify podcasts to RSS feeds.

I don't know if this will be useful to anyone, but... I find that Miniflux is maybe a little too "minimalist" and "opinionated" for my taste? Anyway, I've got a few Tampermonkey userscripts for it now and this is the first one I've cleaned up.

The other puts sort buttons on the feed page for absolute number of unread entries descending, and unread:read ratio descending. If anyone wants that one I'll clean it up and put it up too.