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The future of awesome-rss
Mozilla plans to remove RSS feed reader and Live Bookmarks support from Firefox in the near future like described here: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/25/mozilla-plans-to-remove-rss-feed-reader-and-live-bookmarks-support-from-firefox/ I don't understand if after that, the extension will still work or not.
Looking at the code I believe Awesome RSS will continue to work, as it uses its own function to scan for a feed. But the option "Subscribe using RSS (default)" will have to be removed from "Subscribe Using" because Firefox will not support feed previews and live bookmarks anymore.
Looking at the code I believe Awesome RSS will continue to work...
This is a great news for me, I use Netvibes for save all my RSS, for that I need to copy the feed url and paste it into Netvibes, therefore my workflow will not change in the future.
In my opinion is better open always in the popup window also one RSS, then the user can decide if copy the link via context menu or open the feed in a new tab.
I'm uncertain of the future of Awesome RSS. Yes, it will continue to work if you use Feedly or Inoreader, but it will no longer serve quite the same purpose unless I re-create Live Bookmarks.
In the past, I have avoided deviating too far from the original behavior Firefox used to have, but with Firefox completely abandoning RSS support, the scope and purpose may change.
- I may add a feed viewer or at least list
- I may create a version for Chrome
- I may add different forms of feed detection, along the lines of YouTube Feeds
- I may add different services & use whatever API to add new functionality
- I may just drop Live Bookmarks or rename it to something along the lines of "Default handler"
@happysurf I forget if there was a feature request for Netvibes. Do you know if there is a subscribe URI (not API)?
I use the RSS option and here are the things I'd want for a perfect replacement:
- While I'm still using Thunderbird...
- Some kind of basic preview to make sure that the feed in question actually maps to what I want to subscribe to. (eg. Some *booru sites offer feeds corresponding to search results and others only offer "the firehose" and Thunderbird's UX for previewing feeds is "subscribe and then, if you don't like it, immediately unsubscribe and delete the resulting folders".)
- A means to copy-paste the discovered feed URL in case my Thunderbird's file/url associations support is misbehaving again.
- A means to trigger the registered
feed://handler for when Thunderbird is working properly.
- Once I get back to working on my custom "locally hosted web app" feed-and-other-things reader...
- A means to trigger whatever
feed://handler is registered in the browser. (A preview option would be nice, but I could implement one myself at this stage if need be.)
- A means to trigger whatever
@happysurf I forget if there was a feature request for Netvibes. Do you know if there is a subscribe URI (not API)?
I didn't find nothing on Netvibes web site but I found this parameter on the web: https://www.netvibes.com/subscribe.php?url=%s
Source: https://www.nickifaulk.com/2013/06/29/adding-netvibes-subscription-option-to-firefox/
I don't know if help.
I'm uncertain of the future of Awesome RSS. Yes, it will continue to work if you use Feedly or Inoreader, but it will no longer serve quite the same purpose unless I re-create Live Bookmarks.
Maybe you can work together with the developer of Livemarks. Or reuse some code as it's MIT licensed.
Just wanted to add: I love the extension for what it is today - a simple way to add feeds to an external rss reader (Feedly/Nextcloud/...).
The RSS feature remover of Firefox is going on, and today I lost my RSS icon. Thanks to this addon it's back.
But I still have to copy and paste the RSS URL into my reader (InoReader). I'd like to have a feature to subscibe in the preview page. I don't know if the preview page will go but why not create a featureful one inside this addon? Besides subscribing to sites / applications, I'd like to have a "Contents" list to view and jump between articles too.
They plan to remove everything RSS-related. The preview page will be going.
Source: I watched the discussion in the relevant bugs, where people were begging that at least the icon remain in order to reduce the discoverability hit for RSS itself.
rsspreview currently works when AwsomeRSS is set to open RSS locally. Keeping the option to open locally is obviously critical for this to work so either keeping the option or better still work with @aureliendavid to integrate the feature into AwsomeRSS seems like the way to go.
rsspreview currently works when AwsomeRSS is set to open RSS locally. Keeping the option to open locally is obviously critical for this to work so either keeping the option or better still work with @aureliendavid to integrate the feature into AwsomeRSS seems like the way to go.
rsspreview works perfectly with awesome-rss. It complements the preview feature.
rsspreview currently works when AwsomeRSS is set to open RSS locally. Keeping the option to open locally is obviously critical for this to work so either keeping the option or better still work with @aureliendavid to integrate the feature into AwsomeRSS seems like the way to go.
rsspreview works perfectly with awesome-rss. It complements the preview feature.
One more +1 👍 for that combined functionality! For now, just a discoverability feature + rss preview feature works well and seems robust. (And the combination of these two addons make a sweet duo!)
If there are more needs for some users, there may be an optional fuctionality; something like "send to another ________ destination", besides the options for a new tab etc etc.
If there is an ability to make some user-specified destination points, would be a nice concept probably; an extendable/adaptable framework. But in any case, please mentain the core functionality; do not add features that could make things more bloated than they need to be...
@IoApo I just uploaded a version to test. It will copy the url to the clipboard See #136
