
reads microformatted subscription list from a URL.allows authoring comments and liking posts via micropub.
#New feed reader how to#
See for instructions on how to set up the Selfoss reader.Īt IndieWebCamp 2014, Ben, Aaron, and Emma built an IndieReader demo/prototype in PHP reusing components from their personal site implementations. Īndy Sylvester also uses selfoss with the Microformats2 plugin on since.
sandbox for experimenting - try making your own feeds!īarnaby is using and developing Shrewdness, a multi-column feed reader as of at least Īmber Case also uses selfoss with the Microformats2 plugin on since. It also allows updates to be reblogged, replied to, favourited, and commented on etc.īarnaby Walters developed Intertubes, an experimental indieweb-oriented flow-based programming + feed reader UI parsing microformats and shimmed microformats. It currently defaults to RSS/Atom only attempting to read MF2 if the separate feed isn't found. Note: some of these may be out of date, need to review them to see which are still active and move others to a former examples subsection.Īshton McAllan developed a Wordpress plugin, WhisperFollow, which aggregates RSS/Atom and Microformats2 data from the pages linked to in your blogroll and displays those updates in a private page in your wordpress blog. In datetime order of implementation (earliest first). That's just the beginnings of what an indieweb reader can enable. Filter and prioritize posts from others using algorithms of your own choosing. inline favoriting, retweeting, and replying to others' notes.
backfeeding replies/favorites/retweets onto your original notes (e.g.Your own site can provide you with a superset of Twitter-like functionality, assuming you're already.If you had reading built into your own site, would you ever need to visit Twitter or touch a Twitter client again? (since you can presumably already post from your site and POSSE to Twitter, including replies).Reasons to have a personal reader (a reader integrated into your site for you to use)
See the Social Readers page for more examples and deatils! Monocle is a web-based reader (desktop and mobile, see above) that is a generic Microsub client and can be used with any Microsub server, written by Aaron Parecki.