Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds
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Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI think every email newsletter should offer an RSS feed as a matter of course. With all of ours, you just stick /rss on the end of the URL and off you go :-) e.g. https://javascriptweekly.com/rss With that said, I think there are some interesting opportunities for turning certain types of email into RSS feeds generally. I think it'd be really cool to have all of the random and very low priority emails landing at the 101 spare domain names…
While going back to RSS sounds like the virtuous move, the reason I believe most people are going back to newsletters is that email is an inbox people have to check and the likelihood of them viewing and acting on content that is delivered to their email inbox vs their RSS reader inbox is much higher. With no data to back this up I'd wager conversion rates (read x and click to see y linked within x) are at least…
I like this service and use it myself. But I do find one thing unsettling about it: I run a blog that offers email subscriptions, but also provide direct RSS feeds (with prominent links!). For reasons I don't understand, large numbers of people subscribe using kill-the-newsletter. Which makes me sad, because then they don't get real tables, can't see post-publication corrections, don't get vector graphics, etc.
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The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 819
- Total comments
- 287
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-14 | Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feedsFirst breakout | ProfDreamer | 343 | 109 |
| 2019-11-26 | Kill the Newsletter | AH2mdte8kPnJS | 1 | 1 |
| 2020-02-14 | Kill the Newsletter: Convert email into feeds | colinprince | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-03-03 | Kill the Newsletter | fanf2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-04-16 | Kill the Newsletter | colinprince | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-01-28 | Kill the Newsletter | x14km2d | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-02-17 | Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feedsHall induction · Best thread | polm23 | 344 | 123 |
| 2022-11-22 | Kill the Newsletter | alexmolas | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-04-17 | Kill the Newsletter! Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds | alexzeitler | 4 | 1 |
| 2023-07-15 | Convert email newsletters into RSS feeds | adr1an | 3 | 1 |
| 2024-04-04 | Kill the Newsletter Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds | fossdd | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-08-21 | Kill the Newsletter: Convert email newsletters into Atom feedsLatest 20+ point return | goranmoomin | 114 | 52 |