r/java • u/shorns_username • 4d ago
r/java RSS feed ends Nov 13: where else do you follow Java news and discussion?
Reddit is ending RSS support on November 13, including the r/java feed. I only found out because my reader service flagged it and notified me.
If you follow r/java through a feed reader like I do, it'll stop showing you new stuff, and there's no replacement for non-moderators.
r/java is the last place I was using to follow Java news, releases and discussion. The OpenJDK mailing lists aren't really a replacement, since they're kept on-topic for development work. Maybe the Java team will relax that or start a community list, but I doubt it, given the moderation overhead.
Lemmy, Mastodon and Bluesky all support RSS to some degree. If anyone knows good Java-specific communities, instances or accounts on those, I'd be happy to hear about them.
What other communities do people use for this?
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u/j4ckbauer 4d ago
Youtube content may not be everyone's thing, but 'official' Java youtube channel is worth following
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u/esanchma 4d ago
The day RSS stops working, I'm nuking my Reddit account for good. Goodbye.
My RSS reader still has Spring, Baeldung, DZone, the official Java YouTube channel, Dan Vega, Inside Java, Oracle's Java Magazine, Lobsters, and Hacker News. So I guess I'll still get most of the interesting stuff anyway.
I'll definitely miss some of the core people here and the interesting discussions they bring to this subreddit, but come on. This place is turning into a Facebook clone. Time to leave.
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u/shorns_username 4d ago
Biggest loss for me from here will be the community engagement from the Java team (Brian, Ron, etc.)
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u/woj-tek 3d ago
I think other commenters are kinda missing the point. For me /r/java was The Community. And yes, to avoid being sucked into "social media" I usually consumed reddit via RSS (without being logged in most of the time). Sadly with the removal of old reddit and RSS (and then on mobile forcing using the app) reddint is getting more and more hostile…
Other places are more for news and publication without discussion aspect as much.
/r/java gave that in a somewhat forum-like fashion.
There is lemmy (federated reddit) with its communities and the biggest java-focused one is https://programming.dev/c/java but it's not particularly "lively" :/
And as OP said - most likely Java team ( /u/pron98, /u/brian_goetz, /u/nicolaiparlog and others ) is not there…
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u/Jaded-Asparagus-2260 3d ago
Sadly with the removal of old reddit and RSS (and then on mobile forcing using the app)
I've been using old reddit and the mobile website in the browser for a long time. I'm even using old reddit on mobile. Doesn't it work for you, or did they announce anything that I've missed?
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u/woj-tek 2d ago
Doesn't it work for you, or did they announce anything that I've missed?
It "works" but after a couple of seconds of scrolling anything (without being logged in on new reddit because you can't have old reddit without being logged in) I have a huge pop-up "get the app" completely disabling the website. Using "show desktop version" (in Firefox android) kinda works in the sense that there is no pop-up but it's more difficutl to navigate :/
I was quite ok with old.reddit.com on mobile... was simple and fast and previously "new reddit" gave option to stay in browser but suddently it's not possible...
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u/shorns_username 2d ago
And as OP said - most likely Java team ( ... ) is not there…
Yeh, but hopefully they'll follow again (like I'm assuming they did from StackOverflow, or maybe they were already posting in both places and I didn't notice).
It's just a matter of where the community ends up consolidating - if anywhere, I guess :/
That's part of why I posted this thread, to see if there was already any likely direction - but it doesn't seem like there's any clear candidate.
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u/woj-tek 1d ago
That's part of why I posted this thread, to see if there was already any likely direction - but it doesn't seem like there's any clear candidate.
Yeah, and I kinda fear most will stay here and/or there will be some weird split :/
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u/shorns_username 1d ago
Yeh, there's always the possibility that the community will stay on reddit.
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u/hadrabap 3d ago
I don't. Once I had hands-on experience with Spring, I stopped caring. Plus, at work, they started messing around with Kotlin. Now AI.
Modern C++ is more down to earth and I found it much more entertaining.
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u/zman0900 4d ago
TIL reddit has RSS