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  • Current, a new, calm RSS Reader

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    I’ve been building an RSS reader for the past year. No unread counts, no inbox to clear. Just a river that flows at its own pace.Today it’s live on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I wrote about everything that went into it.Current, an RSS Reader, by @tgCurrent is a new RSS reader that takes a really interesting approach to how we consume feeds. Instead of treating your subscriptions as a to-do list with an ever-growing unread count, it presents your feeds as a river; articles flow in, linger for a while, and eventually fade away on their own.Although the app is mac / iOS only, and paid, it’s not completely closed. You can hook it up to existing RSS backends like Feedbin or Miniflux.The completionist part of me does miss the idea of reaching ā€œinbox zero.ā€ For me, inbox zero was never about obsessive consumption (or at least I like to think so); it was the permission to walk away. When I’ve read everything, I’m done. I can close the app and move on with my day. I wouldn’t want my RSS experience to turn into a TikTok-like endless scroll where I just keep going without thinking. Current isn’t exactly that though, and that’s where its velocity system gets really interesting.Each feed gets assigned a half-life that determines how long its articles stay visible. Breaking news fade away faster than blog posts for example. This means the app naturally surfaces content proportionally to its nature; a prolific news site won’t drown out the small blogs you actually care about. The pace of consumption adapts to the pace of creation, which feels much more respectful of both the reader’s attention and the author’s intent.On top of that, Current watches your reading patterns and offers suggestions to help you ā€œquietā€ noisy sources. If a feed floods your timeline with 18 articles in one day, or if you keep skipping posts from the same source, it’ll nudge you to rate-limit or mute it.I would give the app a try, but it’s iOS and mac-only so far, so I guess I’ll have to wait! šŸ™‚
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    Setting up an #RSS / #atom feed reader. I know I've seen some of y'all's websites and bookmarked 'em, but I'm sure there's some I'm missing. If you have a feed, I'd like to know about it. Please share it with me here :) yes, you, the person who just thought "But I don't post anything interesting"yes, you, the person who thought "I post *really* infrequently"yes, you, the person who thought "I post all the time though and will flood your feed with BS" I'm trying to balance out youtubers with people I have a shot at getting to know, if I don't know you already. #PleaseBoost #pleaseShare #smallWeb
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    Over at WordPress.com, we recently added a new feature to the WordPress.com Reader. You can now build a list of blogs you like, and recommend them to others.What if your readers could help your blog grow? What if the writers you love could introduce their audience to yours?That’s the idea behind recommended blogs, a feature now available in the WordPress.com Reader that lets you share the blogs you enjoy most with your own audience.Let’s Grow Together: Introducing Recommended BlogsĀ Since the WordPress.com Reader lets you follow any site that supports RSS, you can recommend blogs on any platform or CMS. As long as the site includes an RSS feed, you’ll be good to go!You can view my recommended blogs in my WordPress.com Reader profile. Ever the champion of the Open Web, @davew asked me if one could fetch those recommended blogs to show in their own app or tools. Since this is WordPress.com, recommended blogs are indeed available via the WordPress.com REST API. There are different endpoints one can use to fetch and show recommended blogs. All you need to get started is a WordPress.com username.Side-note: WordPress.com usernames are also Gravatar usernames, so once you have a Gravatar username, you can show all sorts of information the person chose to make public in their profile:Check our API documentation to find out more.Once you have a WordPress.com username, you can make a request to rest/v1.2/read/lists/<username>/recommended-blogs/items to get a list of their recommended blogs:We also have another endpoint you can use to export the list in OPML format: wpcom/v2/read/lists/<list-ID>/export. You can get that list ID from the API response just above. That can be handy if you then want to import the list in your own Reader!If you haven’t tried the WordPress.com Reader yet, this could be a good opportunity to give it a try!
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    What Mastodon is to ActivityPub . . .Wordpress is to RSS.| #Wordpress #RSS #Mastodon #ActivityPub