Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service

(sourcefeed.app)

26 points | by bjhess 4 days ago

6 comments

  • michaelsmanley 19 hours ago
    This reminds me of one of my favorite Mac apps ever, Feeder:

    https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/

    Literally, the only app I miss after leaving the Apple ecosystem.

    The question I always have is how to keep a permanent archive of entries for long-running publication histories. You don't want the feed to grow without bounds, so paging (by time period or sliding windows of X entries) seems useful. Atom feeds have RFC 5005 links. I don't recall such for RSS 2.0, but it wouldn't be that hard to extend, I guess.

  • j3s 1 day ago
    clever. i personally don't see the appeal of limiting my blog to rss readers only - i like having a web link that can be shared. this would almost be better as a sort of covert blog, like maybe a smallnet adjacent thing -- no potential to be shared on hackernews is a pro for many ppl.
  • ymolodtsov 33 minutes ago
    Too few people use RSS to limit your audience to this.

    Have a website.

  • fudgeonastick 1 day ago
    I once implemented my blog as pure RSS, but also a website that could render arbitrary RSS feeds as a normal looking blog. (Passing the RSS feed via query parameter).

    The nice part was that the bit that was mine was just a single static file.

    The awkward part was the URLs looked crappy.

  • xnx 1 day ago
    It used to be possible to make bare RSS very readable with XSLT.
  • evanwalsh 1 day ago
    Barry! Funny seeing you here. Slick design on this
    • bjhess 21 hours ago
      Evan! Hope you’re well.

      (To be clear, I didn’t create Sourcefeed.)