A lot of people don’t know this, but you can subscribe to subreddits using RSS by simply adding .rss at the end of the URL, e.g: https://reddit.com/r/socialism.rss and then you can add the feed to your favorite RSS reader. For example, there’s a great add on for Firefox and an Android app.
As far as I know, RSS feeds aren’t affected by the API changes. So if you use Reddit to catch up on the news, this is a great way to do that.
Just wait until they nuke them too…
up soon:
“Reddit was never designed to support RSS feeds” - /u/spez
Nice! Can’t wait to pay 40$ next year for that access.
Seriously though, it’s a great feature and I hope it stays.
lol, yeah hope they don’t nuke the feeds
Thanks for this! I forgot RSS even existed. The time I used them were so many years ago that it feels like RSS should be dead like cds 😂
RSS is really underappreciated, and most news sites still support it. It kind of fell out of vogue because it makes it hard for corps to track and monetize the users.
What’s the difference between
.rssand formats like.xmland.json?.rssoutputs it in a format that RSS readers recognize,.xmland.jsonare just different ways the page can be consumed, for example if you wanted to get the content through a serviceWho are the RRS readers?
For some reason many sites get rid of their feed over time so I can imagine they won’t last long on Reddit neither.
They already disabled posts marked as NSFW recently which sucks if you don’t like logging in all the time.
Btw you can use RSS on YouTube too: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=(id here)
Man I totally forgot about RSS, it died ages ago with the death of Google’s client and never really stuck afterwards. Was just meaning to ask about a good client, this one looks like a no BS one that does it’s job. Thanks!
👍
to catch up on the news, this is a great way to do that.
great way to catch up on the news is to watch actual real respectable news - not reddit (or any other social network, for that matter)
