Hacker News Reader

In contrast, I only visit any of the home, latest, top or whatever pages like once a year, I only read HN via RSS - but like the OP stated, I need both links, one to the original article and one to the comments (or the proposed only comments-link)

> even as a strong RSS user, I don't find RSS to be useful for HN.

I find "replies to my_nick"[1] useful for not missing replies in some older threads.

[1] https://hnrss.org/replies?id=MollyRealized

You might also be interested in: https://www.hnreplies.com

Yes, I love HN in my RSS and find it very useful, but yes, I'm sure that varies for everyone. Dedicated apps for HN, Reddit, etc, certainly offer a better experience for those platforms individually, but for me having everything in one place is much more practical and ideal, and then can use apps/sites for individual sites as needed.

I agree with you. I started self-hosting Miniflux recently, and the HN feed (just for the frontpage items) was sending me about 100 items everyday. I felt that was too much and removed the feed.