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2026/02/21#p1
RSS appears to be having a brief moment in the sun, and rightly so.
Terry Godier's Current, Jake Spurlock's Today, and (thanks to Manu's People and Blogs) I see that Stefano Verna has made a public/private reader on his site. He goes into a few details here.
This mirrors my /reader and his reasoning for building it echoes my own sentiments:
I discovered a lot of other advantages — the most obvious being that it's public.
If you browse it, it's a sort of "blogroll," but more alive: it's not just a list of names. You can really see who the people I follow are and what they write about.
Being a mix of public & private was part of my original intent so others could see who I was subscribed to and what they were posting. At the time, the public view reflected my private read/unread status but I soon changed this to list all posts unless I was logged in.
It's crazy to think it's been nearly four years since its inception.
Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire, wrote:
Because RSS is an open protocol, and because there are so many different possible ways to follow and read the news, RSS readers ought to be a UI playground...
It's good to see an increasing desire to do something different, to take a different approach to how feed readers look and operate.
I'm totally here for it.
