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How do you keep track of all the projects you're interested in?
If you're like me, you have tons of various projects/companies/organizations that you like to keep up with. I have a few different methods I use to keep track of everything, but they all seem fragmented. Here are the methods I use:
- An RSS reader with the blogs of projects I follow
- Following the project on social media
- Mastodon
The RSS feeds work, but I almost always miss the social media posts. Is there a better way to do this? What do you Tildians do?
I'm not certain if that's what you mean with your question, but:
I've given up, if they don't provide an easy way for me to subscribe to something I probably won't notice anything for a long time.
Otherwise, like you: I follow blogs/projects using RSS. I have an updates folder in my RSS reader where I put all these projects.
I also use GitHub's watch feature to get e-mail notifications about new releases (this requires the app/script/whatever maker to use the releases feature of GitHub).
A lot of open source projects also provide mailing lists you can subscribe to, not only for discussions but also just new releases (for example the Tor Browser bundle does that).
Please help me to understand what you mean by projects? Maybe with an example or two.
Mostly things like open source projects and non-profits.
So do you mean projects you are directly involved with or just ones published on the web or both?
Both, I would say.
Projects that don't use Github and the likes likely have a low-traffic announcements mailing list, or in the case of GNU, there is a central info-gnu@ list where all the projects make announcements, which also appear in the Planet GNU (what is a planet?) whose RSS feed you follow. I generally subscribe to git commit RSS feeds for projects that I care about, both Github etc and CGit etc have RSS feeds.
RSS is the one web technology that I never got into. It seems simple and useful enough but I guess my barrier has always been the "reader" part? What readers would you use and wouldn't there always be site-specific information (categories, tags, votes/ranking, images, etc) missing to make all sources display uniform links?
There are tons of them. If you have an Android, I would suggest Feeder from F-Droid. That one works for me. I don't really use a reader on any other platform, so I don't know about any others.
I'm still looking for a reader that syncs to an account of some type and has clients on multiple platforms. Feeder has worked fine so far.