Web-based feed reading with rsslounge [LWN.net]

Web-based feed reading with rsslounge

Posted Aug 4, 2011 13:54 UTC (Thu) by fb (subscriber, #53265)
In reply to: Web-based feed reading with rsslounge by foom
Parent article: Web-based feed reading with rsslounge

> If software developers can't install/enable those things, they're no software developer.

> But, even if you're not able to handle that yourself, you can rent a virtual server from numerous companies that has all that already setup and running!

It is really not a question about being "able to handle" or "can't install" but about being _willing_ to spend time doing this. People could run their own email servers, but most won't. People could hand wash their dishes, but most just put them in the dish-washer.

My whole point is that most people also find running Apache+PHP+MySQL for RSS feeds too much of a hassle to bother.

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Web-based feed reading with rsslounge

Posted Aug 5, 2011 1:37 UTC (Fri) by dmag (subscriber, #17775) [Link]

> My whole point is that most people also find running *Linux* too much of a hassle to bother.

Fixed that for you. Granted, not everyone running Linux is a hardcore geek. But LWN is about as hardcore as you're going to get this side of Dwarf Fortress.

The usual reviews require you to compile your own version from an experimental branch. So running a PHP app is so easy it feels like cheating. At least Ruby on Rails forces you to choose from 6 different runtimes and 8 different web containers.

> [It is] about being _willing_ to spend time doing this

First, installing a LAMP stack is a non-issue for me (and I suspect many LWN readers), since I already had it installed for other reasons.

Second everyone's values are different. I'm perfectly happy to spend 20 minutes setting up an RSS reader in exchange for various things (like not having my eyeballs sold, not having it suddenly turn into a social network, customization, speed, etc).