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Does Tildes offer a personalized RSS feed? If not, could it?
With the introduction of the new groups, I now, for the first time, have unsubscribed from some groups here on Tildes. I've been subscribed to the fire hose feed in my feed reader, but I'd love to get a feed that is personalized with only my subscriptions. Does this exist? If not, could it?
No personalized feed based on your subs, AFAIK, but you can always subscribe to a medley of the group/tag feeds to essentially make your own personalized feed.
https://tildes.net/~tildes/15my/new_users_ask_your_questions_about_tildes_here#comment-7wtt
That's exactly what I do. I have a "Tildes" folder on Tiny Tiny RSS that includes ~anime, ~comp, ~games, ~news, ~tech, and ~tiles (which is how I found this post). I find it a little easier to browse through it on there than going through the actual site.
Like @Grue said, the tricky part of this is that the site only knows your subscriptions when you're logged in, and most feed readers send logged-out requests.
The way Reddit dealt with this was by providing a "secret" url for an RSS feed that only included your subscriptions (kind of like having its own separate password in the url). That would probably be possible to do here too, but would need to be implemented.
Thanks for the follow-up. It makes sense. I'd love to see the "secret" personalized feed implemented. The suggestions to subscribe to all the topic feeds is certainly workable, but it's a bit cumbersome and will become more so as new communities are added.
Looking at the source code, it will return the rss/atom feed for your subscriptions if you are logged in, so it'd depend a bit on your feed reader if you can login. In my brief search, I couldn't find a way to see your logged in homepage without a session cookie.
I've got my feed-reader configured to pull the main, but then filter on my end. Maybe your reader has that?