Changelog

Technical improvements, changes, and bugs that, when resolved, need not be mentioned 😁

10/19/2023
- Added Green Med Info blog feed
- Added swiss.social Mastodon feeds
- Added Psychotherapy Networker feeds
- Added BPS Psychologist Archive feed
- Added 9to5mac feeds for the homepage, guides, and author sections
- Added toot.blue Mastodon feeds
- Added Virtual Box Changelog feed
- Added djplayit.com category feeds
- Added devolverdigital.com blog feed
- Fixed URL parameter issue that caused inconsistent content in Yahoo! JP feeds
- Fixed titles in Github release tag feeds
- Added pagination to the Changelog page, which has grown rather long 🤗
10/17/2023
- Added China Daily feeds for homepage, sections, and subsections
- Added Mastodon feeds that include snfb.social, fandom.garden, lingo.lol, cloudisland.nz, and press.coop
- Added ttrpg.network Lemmy feeds
- Updated YouTube feeds to redirect old user URLs to new location
- Fixed issue where some embedded content wasnt appearing in Bluesky feeds
- Fixed issue that caused some video content not to appear in Gab feeds
10/16/2023
- Added John Cuneo feeds
- Added The Art of Manliness feeds
- Added support for weather articles in BBC News feeds
- Added Only Office blog feeds
- Added Economist feeds
- Added ArcaMax The Funnies feeds
- Added Linux Mint Community ISO image build feeds
- Added more NSFW feeds and fixed a few small issues with an existing one
- Added Alexandra Daddario Photo feeds
- Added Bison Jacks feeds
- Added mastodon.sc feeds
- Added kanoa.de Mastodon feeds
- Fixed error caused by new publish dates and authors in Apple podcast feed items
- Fixed author field in APNews feeds
- Implemented a major performance upgrade to make Substack feeds faster
- Fixed small issue preventing some GitHub search feeds from returning proper content
10/13/2023
- Added NPR feeds for homepage, sections, and for individual journalists (people)
- Now monthly donors will get a set of first-priority feed requests each month, along with some other benefits and perks, see the Donations page to learn more!
- Added DC Startup Calendar feed
- Fixed an issue that was causing some failures for Meetup Find Events feeds
- Fixed Bluesky feed failure when the user has no profile information
- Fixed duplicate dates on YCombinator/Hacker News feeds
- Updated Yahoo! JP search feeds to include searching through product descriptions
- Updated Github Issues feeds to support search terms
10/10/2023
- Added Gab user feeds (Thanks to the anonymous person who donated for this feed)
- Added Yahoo! JP Auction feeds (Thank you, Richard, for your donation to this feed)
- Added arkhaven.com feeds (Thanks to the anonymous person who donated for this feed)
- Added 8kun.top feeds (Thanks to the anonymous person who donated for this feed)
- Added feeds for LineageOS downloads pages
- Added hanselman.com feeds
- Fixed rare cases where some content was missing from Telegram video feed items that didn't have a thumbnail
- Added support for Meetup feeds for events and groups in non-US, international locations
- Improved response time for a few feeds, including SSENSE feeds, Parachute Home feeds, and Open Collective feeds
- Made some minor improvements to date inconsistencies in The Guardian feed content
- Updated Mastodon feeds to support Twitter posts
- Added support for video and photo posts in Telegram feeds
- Fixed titles and content in beehiiv feeds
10/03/2023
- Added ability to offer a donation to prioritize feed requests ahead of the backlog
- Added Bluesky feeds
- Added Typepad feeds
- Added Mastodon feeds for ecoevo.social and social.jvns.ca
- Added wdcep.com feeds
- Added Sahil Bloom newsletter feed
- Added beehiiv.com feeds
- Added support for live articles in The Times feeds
- Improved and cleaned up output of Telegram feed content
- Fixed Apple Discussions feeds to handle rare cases when the website's content is invalid
- Improved Meetup feeds to support more international locations
- Fixed small content issue with Twitch feeds
- Cleaned up content in Robinhood Snacks newsletter feed
09/25/2023
- Added 1Password release feeds
- Added GitHub issue and pull request activity feeds
- Added foreignaffairs.com feeds
- Added symetrixinc.com feeds
- Added support for StoryThreads and DataViz articles in Bloomberg feeds
- Added support for podcast items in WSJ feeds
- Added some NSFW feeds, which shall remain nameless and can't be found on the homepage or in search due to their adult nature
- Added support for third-party news items in Yahoo! News feeds
- Added feeds for BBC Sports section
- Added support for Washington Post Deep Reads
- Updated wired.com feeds to include full content
- Fixed an issue that resolves some missing content in Bloomberg homepage and section feeds
- Fixed a few issues in Eventbrite feed content
- Fixed a few content issues with Meetup feeds
09/19/2023
- Added Google Search feeds
- Added Hacker News / YCombinator feeds for users, threads, comments, and submissions
- Added support for live updates in AP News feeds
- Added medium.com feeds
- Added jw.org feeds
- Added feeds for some new Mastodon instances that include coach.masto.host, mast.hpc.social, and friend.camp
- Fixed some Substack subdomain feed descriptions being empty
- Fixed small content issue with Yahoo! News, The Intercept and Amnesty.org feeds
- Added support for author sections in Inquirer feeds
09/14/2023
- Added avatarnews.co feeds
- Added Save The Post Office feeds
- Added support for TV series in Amazon feeds
- Added support for Quiz items in The Verge feeds
- Added magnetic-ink.dk feeds
- Added feed for the US Department of Health Services ASA products page
- Added support for Film reviews in The Guardian homepage feed
- Added The Free Thought Project feeds
- Fixed 2ndvote feeds
- Fixed issue with Meetup feeds that were pending approval status
- Added express payment options to Donations page, which includes Paypal, Google Pay, or Apple Pay
- Fixed issue where some images weren't appearing in Aljazeera feeds
- Fixed issue causing missing items in Github release tag feeds
- Fixed wolfensson feed content
- Fixed publish date issue with forum.mobilism.org feeds
09/10/2023
- Added new donations page 🙏
- Added Subreddit search feeds
- Added The Times UK feeds, but also wrote a blog post about the irony of it all
- Added trakt.tv feeds
- Added picuki feeds
- Added Apple Discussions feeds for posts, replies, and Browse, Search, Community sections
- Added JustWatch feeds for /new sections on website and fixed a few, small rendering issues
- Added privatephotoviewer.com feeds
- Added support for video items in Substack feeds
- Added mobilism.org feeds
- Added support for video-only articles in WSJ feeds
- Added support for photo-only articles in The Guardian feeds
- Added support for podcast items in The Guardian feeds
- Fixed 4chan feed content
- Fixed and improved speed of Mytheresa feeds
- Updated Lemmy user feeds to show proper error when user no longer exists
- Updated RSS reader table to include missing platforms NewsBlur supports
- Improved speed of results on homepage search and match accuracy
- Added support for more query parameters when using Indeed Jobs feeds
- Fixed small issue with suus feeds and made them faster
- Improved handling of items in Reddit feeds by deleted users
- Fixed issue caused by inconsistent publish dates in a few items in some Instagram feeds
- Fixed author field on Instagram feeds
- Improved handling of untitled posts in Instagram feeds
08/30/2023
- Added Bing Images and Search feeds, which are still in beta. Feel free to try these out and let us know if there are any issues.
- Added Robinhood snacks feeds
- Added Technical.ly tags feeds and improved feeds to include images and authors
- Added a simplified "How it Works" section to the home page and made a few minor wording changes
- Added home page support to WSJ feeds
- Improved messaging when a Lemmy feed is temporarily down due to maintenance
- Fixed small issue preventing Github issues and pulls feeds from loading
- Fixed duplicate content issue with some Eventbrite feeds and improved handling in cases where the URL to an Eventbrite event page has changed
- Improved Substack feeds to support new thread types
- Fixed small loading issue with some GitHub tags feeds
- Fixed issue with Patreon feeds caused by their new structural changes to their website
- Improved algorithm for Instagram feeds for stability
08/22/2023
- Added Google Alerts feeds
- Added Graphics articles to Bloomberg feeds
- Added Flickr photos feeds
- Added The Guardian feeds
- Fixed Webtoons feeds
- Fixed Google Careers feeds
- Removed extraneous content that started to appear in some Washington Post feed items
- Fixed issues with some Reddit feeds and removed extraneous content from feed items
- Added feeds for Subreddit comments
- Fixed Tweet embeds in Telegram feeds
- Fixed sanitization of Github release feed URLs
- Added Highlight for wide desktop screens when linking to an entry on Changelog page
- Added new blog article on How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds
08/14/2023
- Added more details around how to request new feeds
- Added nzz.ch feeds for homepage and sections
- Added radovan.org home page and category feeds
- Added resetheus.org feeds for homepage and redakce section
- Added feeds for old.reddit.com, which are useful to users who prefer that feed items link to old.reddit.com instead of reddit.com
- Added Eurosport feeds for top-level Sports pages
- Added tori.fi feeds
- Fixed link issue in Axios feed content
- Fixed content in HuffPost and HuffingtonPost UK feeds
- Fixed issue where some francelive.fr feeds weren't populating
08/11/2023
- Added Lemmy User feeds
- Added helpful messaging when attempting to navigate to URLs with invalid parameters for Reddit, Lemmy, and Discuit feeds and redirecting to appropriate URLs if possible
- Added Special Report and Graphics articles to Reuters feeds
- Added Games and Election Results articles to Washington Post feeds
- Added Special Project articles to APNews feeds
- Fixed boolean issue with some Telegram feeds with "true" in the URL
- Fixed hub path issue with APNews Category feeds
- Fixed some content inconsistencies in The Verge feeds
- Fixed error message shown when attempting to access a Substack feed for a user that doesn't exist
- Removed carousels of "related content" from Washington Post feeds
- Removed duplicate usernames from titles of Substack feed items
- Fixed date issue with podcast items in Substack feeds
- Fixed sort issue where some Substack Notes weren't showing up in the User feeds
- Improved error messaging when a PocketCasts feed item has no show notes
- Fixed date issue that caused a few items to take a longer time to appear in Proton feeds
- Updated the links in Squabbles feeds to link to their new website
- Improved sorting parameters in all Lemmy feeds
- Improved Discuit community and home feed URLs to default to hot when no sort parameter is specified
- Improved Discuit post comment feed to redirect incorrect attempts to correct location
- Fixed incorrect redirects that occurred with some Reddit feeds
- Fixed Craigslist search feeds
- Fixed horizontal scrolling on Privacy Policy table on mobile devices
- Cleaned up formatting of content in Reuters feeds
08/03/2023
- Added Craigslist feeds that support searches, individual post updates, and listings for cities, communities, and the event calendar
- Added Reddit feeds for subreddits, searches, comments, and users
- Added new Squabbles feeds for /all and new communities
- Added support for memes, images, tweet embeds, and new post titles to Squabble feeds
- Improved Squabble link embeds and link-only feed titles and formatting in Squabbles user feeds
- Added JustWatch logo to feeds
- Fixed issue where content in certain Bloomberg items wasn't being populated if the full article text wasn't available
- Support automatically redirecting Mastodon feeds to appropriate local instance username if URL doesn't include @ symbol
- Fixed issue where some Twitter replies weren't being correctly associated with the original tweet
- Fixed formatting of quoted retweets
- Updated Telegram feeds to better handle when embedded link has no preview data
- Optimized feed population algorithm to increase performance of all feeds
- Added sorting support to Discuit feeds and resolved a few small formatting issues
- Fixed Lemmy community posts and comments feeds
- Made links in Lemmy community and timeline posts relative to instance associated with the feed
- Added Active sorting to Lemmy timeline feeds
- Added support for videos and podcasts in Washington Post feeds
- Removed redundant username from Tumblr reblog items
- Fixed datetime attribute not existing in Proton uservoice suggestion feeds
- Truncated super long feed descriptions of Mastodon user feeds
- Added local and federated feeds section to Lemmy blog article
- Fixed date issue with osterholm feed
- Improved backoff algorithm to better respect when a third-party server wants us to slow down on our requests
- Fixed Twitch feeds when user has no uploaded videos
- Better handled Telegram video thumbnails that cant be generated
07/17/2023
- Added Lemmy feeds for comments and posts on Local and All Timelines that can also be sorted by New, Hot, and Active
- Added Discuit feeds for users, communities, and post comments
- Added Kbin magazine feeds
- Added Webtoons feeds
- Added 4chan feeds with higher-res images
- Added Meetup Group feeds for both public and member-only events
- Fixed Bitchute channel and video comment feeds
- Fixed invalid date issue in HackMD release notes feed
- Now Substack feeds include newsletter posts
- Improved image and link content in Telegram feeds
- Added support for images, gifs, and videos in Twitter feeds
- Moved redundant usernames from feed titles to author field on Mastodon, Telegram, and Squabbles feeds (we'll get around to making this change on all other relevant feeds)
- Fixed image issue on 1jeune1solution.gouv.fr feeds
- Fixed issue that stalled Morning Brew feeds
- Added support for deleted comments on Github Gist feeds
- Truncateed extremely long titles in Kbin user feeds
- Fixed channel titles and descriptions in Axios feeds
- Added Axios Author feeds
- Re-enabled Twitter Feeds and fixed error caused by Twitter's tombstone (removed) tweets
- Removeed duplicate post tile from stadt-bremerhaven.de feeds
- Fixed handling of Odysee feed descriptions
- Updated Telegram post feeds to include images
- Fixed issue in Telegram feeds that occurred when profile had no description
- Fixed issue that caused nowhiteboard feeds to error out
- Fixed issue where Mastodon feeds items were returning no title
- Fixed author field in Reuters feeds
- Updated GitHub release feeds to now redirect users to the correct URL when attempting to get a release feed while on a release page
- Added anchor links to blog headings so that users can link directly to sections within a blog article
07/06/2023
- Added HackMD release note feed
- Added Github Gist and Gist comment feeds
- Re-enabled Instagram feeds (to test out our new approach), use caution with these, as they are still in beta testing phase and may be problematic
- Added a number of RSS feeds to keep up with content on Proton's feedback platform, UserVoice
- Added ProtonMail Web Changelog feed
- Added a blog article to highlight the RSS feeds we have available to keep up with Proton Mail and all other Proton products
- Fixed issue that caused missing items in Morning Brew feeds
- Fixed issue that was causing some Lemmy community feeds to time out
- Updated AP News feeds after recent changes to their website
- Added stadt-bremerhaven.de feeds for homepage, tags, and categories
07/03/2023
- Added Axios feeds for homepage, sections, and subsections
- Added Pixelfed User and Discover feeds for all known instances
- Added lemdro.id instance to family of Lemmy feeds
- Added Washington Examiner feeds for home page, sections, and author pages
- Added feeds for home page, sections, and contributor pages of blog.ap.org.
- Added columbiapaper.com Event feeds that are now being redirected to theupstater.com
- Added City of Hudson Calendar feed
- Fixed footnote highlight color on RSS Readers table in dark mode
- Improved consistency in fonts on all browsers and devices
- Added more Mastodon instances (check search on home page to see if the instance you're interested in supported)
- Increased resolution of site icons
- Temporarily dismantled Twitter feeds due to Twitter's new changes that prevent any of its public data from being accessible without an account—we're looking into how to get the feeds working again, and will re-enable once we can regain access
06/30/2023
- Added thecollegefix.com feeds for home page and subjects (sections)
- Added The Verge feeds for home page and sections and, unlike The Verge's RSS feeds, these include the full content of the article
- Fixed issue where some search results on the home page were missing example URLs
- Added cityofhudson.org News feed
- Shorten extremely long titles on Odysee channel feeds and Squabbles user feeds
- Added new "Mark Read on Scroll" column to RSS Readers table and added a background color when hovering over items
06/28/2023
- Added feeds for community posts and post comments on Squabbles, a promising new Reddit alternative
- Fixed a nasty issue where Twitter was sprinkling random promoted tweets into Twitter feeds (not cool, Twitter 😠). we're keeping a close eye on this in case it starts happening again
- Added a blog to help RSS newcomers choose a good RSS reader
- Added a new immersive RSS Readers page that contains a listing of all the readers we recommend along with the features they offer
- Wrote a blog article around the new Lemmy RSS feeds
- Plastered our new logo over the site, and placed logo icons on browser tab and mobile devices
- Fixed issue where replies weren't appearing in Twitter feeds
- Removed a few site-wide styles that prevented us from utilizing more horizontal space on bigger screens
- Fixed morning brew feeds
- Finally got all feeds working inside the Reeder app
- Increased response times of Rumble feeds
- Cleaned up formatting of content in Rumble feeds
- Updated Rumble Category feeds due to recent Rumble.com changes
- Now featured articles are included in Twitch Blog feeds
- Cleaned up formatting for content in Ars Technica feeds