Hey Courtney great see you got through! 🤓
What do you think would happen?
If there's something you think we should do differently in RSS.chat, let us know.
Seems pretty naive in hindsight. :-)
This is the post it came from.
http://scripting.com/stories/2008/09/16/theWholeWorldIsWatching.html
"There are, of course, differences between Micro.blog and rss.chat, but the intention behind both is very similar, isn't it?"
This app is holding the place for a protocol I want to be widely supported. It's also documented and there's even a validator for it. I want it to be easy to hook up other apps to the network this defines. And all the source code is released under the MIT license.
It's not my place to say what micro.blog is -- but the other day I called it: "the swiss army knife of interop in the web of the 2020's." And in that it is unique and imho irreplaceable.
I'm trying to create a new kind of network for discourse on the web.
The Agency was quite good.
This is a test post.
It has a title so it should be routed to the place where standard.site says they should go.
And I will be able to read them in this place.
Where I must imagine it behaves something like a feed reader.
Postscript. For the post that was to be routed to standard.site (whatever that means) I can find no evidence that something was sent somewhere.
The first one worked).
It was routed through micro.blog. Basically everything I post to demo.rss.chat will go to my main account on Bluesky.Unless it has a title or is longer than 300 chars. Here's what we get using various Markdown features.
A list of five countries.
Obviously there's bold, italic and a link. The Big Three. Okay that's a big, almost 500 chars, and that's enough for a nice little test.
This is a test.
This is a short less-than 300 char post, that is being routed to Bluesky via micro.blog.
Because it's short it it won't have to be upgraded to standard.site class, it can go through the analog of coach (the current limits of Bluesky).
Okay that's about it. Let's see if this mofo works.
Previously we were only able to notify via rssCloud.
Now we also support WebSub because there are also a fair number of feed readers that only use WebSub.
We're using Andrew Shell's rsscloud.io as our WebSub hub, as we have for a long time with rssCloud.
Andrew please help us figure out if this is working correctly.
The source is in the repo, along with a worknote.
Just made a small change in the way we prepare feeds, and I have to post something to cause the feeds to rebuild.
Hi Robert, I had Claude tell me that you're the generous developer who wrote us that thoughtful report last night about the security issue.
FIrst, there are no plans for the /localnewuser function, we put it in because we watched some users struggle through installing the server because they had to set up the email server connection before they could log onto the site themselves. We could also see it as a way for a sysop to set up accounts for users. No plans to do anything more with it.
We tried out a bunch of ideas here to integrate news with what rss.chat does, the best one imho was a blogroll, like the one you see on scripting.com, in the left column. That's the way I'd go. But if posts from Bluesky show in the timeline then the discussions are going to be like discussions on Bluesky. And we already have Bluesky for that. :-)
What I really want is an RSS-to-Standard.site bridge, both ways. That will give an outlet to leaflet to the whole web, not just the ones who study AT Proto.
And again thanks for the report. It was basically perfect. ;-)
A user contacted us about a potential security issue in the RSS.chat server. We responded quickly and with v0.6.11 the issue is removed. If you're running rssnetwork.js on a publicly visible server, please install the new version asap.
You're absolutely right. With WordPress you can go from rss.chat to mastodon.
A validator and a way to add menus to the RSS.chat menubar, if you're running your own instance.
Links on today's Scripting home page.
I like this site, I want to keep it open, and as long as moderation is a rare thing, ie people behave like adults and professionals, we'll be fine. But if the moderation gets to be too much, it'll become read only.
This looks spammy.
1. That's a new account, and a new feed.
2. We were planning ahead, leaving space for an enclosure. We don't have a UI for that yet.
3. Yes, use OPML, create a list of servers. That's what software that wants to work with federations will require as input.
Did this show up on the other side?
great to see you here matthias. wow.
sent an email. definitely want to chat.
it would be interesting to hook up the output of rss.chat to the input of Jekyll using templates or themes or whatever they call them in the Jekyll.
I’ll have Claude look into this tomorrow. It will explain to me what’s going on and we may change something.
Did it work as you expected it would?
As you put it "html fragments" not full html pages.
It's just a question of whether you prefer writing in the wizzy editor (the default) or the markdown editor. Since you're coming at it from a script, not sure exactly how it would work. I'm away from home right now and can't look it up. There are docs for the calls now, you could check that out.
New docs for the API that connects RSS.chat to the server.
https://github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/client/docs/apijs.md
We’ll look into it, first thing I’d do is ask Claude what’s up. You could do that too. My theory is that it’s up to the system you copied it from to have a pref that protects this info.
Welcome Nakedjen. We've been waiting for you.
invite them to come here and join the conversation.
i'm sure they'll want to do some part of this.
we're on the web, we should get to know each other and work together. ;-)
At least we've started building a new nest on the web outside the silos.
Just make sure they are challenged when they say their silo is the web. ;-)
Is there public info about your feed reader, Elixir? I tried doing a search and think I saw mention of it, or it could have been something else.
When you click on New Post it starts a new post.
There is a command that does what you want, in the Menu at the top of the page, Focus on Editor. Probably not a great name, and not something people will know to look for, but now you know to look for it when you accidentally or intentionally click outside the edit box.
Saved does work, if you reload the page while editing, the text will still be there.
Worknotes, updates on new features and fixes in RSS.chat, are now a feed.
we will get around to that, i promise. ;-)
The only other place at this time is the rss.chat repo.
i totally miss that place. dan dan noodles. we were blessed.
Btw you can make official html links without pasting full urls.
Put the url on the clipboard, select some text like this, paste the link. It’ll figure it out.
I call this cute paste, copied from slack and others.
You can also use the link icon above the text box.
Amyloooo so nice to see you here! :-)
In 2005 we did a duet of the Green Acres theme song, and I put it out through my podcast network, and it appeared in a piece I wrote entitled Musical podcasts of 2005, twelve years after the fact.
We got a report of a security issue which we quickly addressed and fixed.
Instructions on how to update your server.
This server has been updated as has rss.chat.
Hello world. I'm testing to make sure that the server is working after another upgrade.
The basic UI design for the editor is the same, as you’ve noted, but the UI is all new code.
We reuse basic parts, esp server side where we built on the same foundations as we use in all my recent products, Drummer, FeedLand.
But this is a very new way of developing, I have a great development partner — Claude Code, which has made it possible to try out lots of options, and extensive iteration, far more than a human developer could do.
Looks good!
We have images.
Limit of 2MB per.
Works like Slack or GitHub.
Put the image on the clipboard, create a post, paste.
Uploading image…
This is a test of the emergency RSS system.
Uploading image…
You got it. Groups of writers. As small as one.
But, in a while it won't matter if they're on the same instance.
You could form a virtual group, using people on different servers, maybe not even running my software.
Manton says this works now! ;-)
This is a test. We just gave this server the same upgrade rss.chat got last night.
But this time there are some glitches.
Let's see if this post appears.
We just did an upgrade on both servers, first rss.chat and now demo.rss.chat.
There's a new feature coming that's pretty exciting, at least for anyone wanting to set up their own instance. The install instructions are about to get much shorter. ;-)
If it all works, that is! :-)