I’ve found myself recently pining for the open social media days of yore – del.icio.us, Flickr, original Twitter – (I feel there is more to discuss on that in another post!) Once Google Reader died (10 years ago now!), my RSS/blog reading died along with it. With Twitter also dying, I’ve been searching for ways to (re)connect. A few days ago, a solution appeared – an AMAZING tool that came across my Mastodon feed (speaking of searching for open spaces) called RSS is Awesome.
What is RSS is Awesome? From the website:
The RSS is Awesome feed reader is a in-progress passion project by me, Tom Hazledine, and I’m working on it a lot right now (as of late-July 2023).
Features
-All state stored in your browser – no server (and so no costs!)
-Add RSS and Atom feeds with a feed URL
-Sort feeds into Groups
-Filter items by read/unread
-New items are highlighted when feeds refresh
-Mark items as read/unread
-Dark mode and light mode support
-Responsive layout
I have to say -so far, I LOVE IT! It’s one of the first tabs I open and has (re)oriented me to spaces I haven’t visited in a while. I’m still adding more as I go and remember – so please – add your RSS feed below! I have to fiddle with the URLs sometimes to get the feed to work, but, it’s usually still buried in there somewhere!
What fun to see this post come up in my RSS app. :)
My website has lots of different feeds (https://spencergreenhalgh.com/rss/), but you’re probably most interested in: https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/index.xml
Oh Spencer! This reply gives me so much joy & hope! Lovely to reconnect – via RSS!!! <3
I miss Google reader so much!! I switched to feedly years ago. There’s decent enough free aspects though the better features have a fee. I’ll have to check out this new option!
Nice find, Leigh. I use my Outlook RSS function to follow things that can be followed using RSS (including your blog posts!), but having another option is great especially since this is a browser-based tool. I’ll tinker around.
Would love to hear what you think!
Let me know if you try it out!!
Hey, just discovered this post. Thanks so much for the kind words! (I’m the RSS is Awesome “creator” – which sounds grander than it is 😆)
This is very much a passion project for me, so I’m always on the lookout for ways to improve the experience. Any feedback (positive *and* negative) is very welcome.
I’m already working on ways to simplify the URL submission process (a.k.a. automatically sniffing feed URLs from regular site addresses), so that particular paper-cut should be removed soon 🤞 But if you have any other feature requests let me know