Re: RSS with Gnus (elfeed backend?)

[Tim Landscheidt]

Garjola Dindi <garjola@garjola.net> wrote:

>> Have you tried gwene.org?
>> You register the rss feed with the site, and it shows up as a newsgroup
>> you can subscribe to via news.gwene.org. I follow many
>> sites in gnus via this method. You may find many of the site you wish to
>> follow are already there...

> Thanks for the suggestion. I am aware of gwene and I have used it in the
> past. But I would prefer something which does not depend on a
> centralized server. This defeats one of the purposes of RSS itself, in
> my opinion. And there is also the issue of private feeds, of course.

> I really think that nrss should be improved to solve its shortcomings
> and it seems that elfeed is a very good feed reader. I wish I had the
> skills to propose some patches or something.

> I will study the code and the documentation on how to build a new
> backend, but it will take months for me. Maybe if I start something this
> will motivate real elisp programmers to chime in?

It's even worse because Emacs already has yet another (rath-
er fragile) RSS reader, newsticker, that AFAIR does not
share code with either, and nnrss has an asynchronous, yet
somewhat manual out-of-Gnus retriever
(nnrss-generate-download-script), the keys for moving to the
next or the next unread article in newsticker are "reversed"
compared to Gnus, elfeed seems to have a separate system for
scoring articles, etc., etc., etc.  newsticker as well as
nnrss feel like "technology demonstrators", i. e., yeah, you
can read RSS feeds in Emacs or Gnus, but nobody really does.

So if someone would implement a (preferably new) nice, clean
backend for Gnus that DWIM, I'd be eternally grateful :-).

Tim