Dave Winer

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:25:28 -0400

smart feed readers strip all that bs out. ;-)

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:36:32 -0400

Nice sky!

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:18:43 -0400

Hey Courtney great see you got through! 🤓

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:54:13 -0400

What do you think would happen?

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:37:53 -0400

If there's something you think we should do differently in RSS.chat, let us know.

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:41:19 -0400

Seems pretty naive in hindsight. :-)

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:27:46 -0400

This is the post it came from.

http://scripting.com/stories/2008/09/16/theWholeWorldIsWatching.html

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:45:43 -0400

"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.

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, again the blog posts will tell you more about that.

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:44:14 -0400

The Agency was quite good.

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-agency-2024/

As often is the case..

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:07:05 -0400

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.

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:56:31 -0400

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 next test post

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:54:49 -0400

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.

Portugal
Tanzania
Panama
Canada
Vietnam

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.

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:42:29 -0400

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.

WebSub support for RSS.chat

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:22:49 -0400

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.

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:20:17 -0400

Just made a small change in the way we prepare feeds, and I have to post something to cause the feeds to rebuild.

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:53:20 -0400

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. ;-)

Security issue

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:50:20 -0400

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.

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:51:24 -0400

You're absolutely right. With WordPress you can go from rss.chat to mastodon.

New features today

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:46:23 -0400

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.

No spam, personal stuff, etc

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:37:20 -0400

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.

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:09:24 -0400

This looks spammy.

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:14:16 -0400

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.

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:26:02 -0400

Did this show up on the other side?

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:48:11 -0400

great to see you here matthias. wow.

sent an email. definitely want to chat.

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:38:13 -0400

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.