Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

Re:Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you l... by LonelyWolfe on Thursday April 27, 2023 @09:55AM (#35728146)

Out of curiosity... Does anyone use the rss reader in MS Outlook? I know MS is supposed to pack a lot of features to catch as much audience as possible, but are there enough people still using it to this day?

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Re:Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you l... by Darmody on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:47AM (#35729852)

RSS in your email client is a bad idea IMO.

I used thunderbird like that a lot but everytime I needed to read or send an email for something productive I'd see that there's a new post somewhere and I'd check it.

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Re:Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you l... by rcarmo on Friday April 28, 2023 @03:52AM (#35738664)

It was actually a pretty decent thing if you set up a dedicated account (I used to maintain rss2mail and https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap).

I still have archived posts in MIME format, complete with images, etc. Amazing for archival purposes.

The tricky thing is actually dealing with title-only feeds - these days apps like Reeder will fetch a readable version of posts automatically, and I never got around to implementing that in earnest.

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Re:Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you l... by prepend on Sunday April 30, 2023 @07:38AM (#35761649)

I used it for a few years to access rss feeds from non-public internet routable jira servers. It was pretty nice to monitor new issues across lots of projects.

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