Changelog

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

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
06/18/2023
- Added Ars Technica feeds for homepage and sections
- Added Codeberg feeds for issues and pull requests
- Added feeds for more Lemmy instances
- Added kbin feeds
- Fixed issue that occurred when a TikTok feed had a post with no title
- Finally fixed phantom issue causing Ground News feeds not to update
06/15/2023
- Added Reddark feeds to watch subreddits during the Reddit Blackout
- Improved performance of BBB.org Complaints feeds and fixed loading issue
- Fixed issue that occurred when accessing a YouTube feed for a channel that only has one video
- Improved performance of IMDB Movie Calendar feed
- Fixed script loading issue when populating nowhiteboard.org feeds
- Fixed some issues with Lemmy feeds when posts had a large number of threaded comments
- Removed a YouTube blog article that was extemporaneously published with inaccurate information— this was a mistake on our part, and we'll make sure it doesn't happen again
- Fixed issue in Reuters search feeds
- Added a demo to our YouTube blog article showing how to get an RSS feed directly from a YouTube video page
- Fixed YouTube feeds due to their new username URL structure
- Added a blog article announcing that we're still waiting to hear back from Reeder devs to fix Open RSS feeds in Reeder app
- Updated some blog article titles and URLs for SEO optimization
- Removed "Read more" related articles section from BBC News feed content to prevent distractions while reading
- Improved performance of BBC News feeds
- Fixed The Intercept feeds due to some recent changes they made to their infrastructure
- Updated Substack User feeds to reflect the new structure of their content
- Fixed and improved performance of Grailed feeds
- Fixed Meetup Find Group and Event Feeds
- Fixed hanging TikTok feed responses that caused feeds not to load correctly
- Updated Lemmy feeds to show a "no content" message when user has deleted their comment
- Updated Lemmy Community post feeds to support non-text media, including image and videos
06/07/2023
- Added Community Posts and Comments feeds for all Lemmy instances on join-lemmy.org. Feeds also have sorting ability using the sort query parameter. Still testing though, so allow us a few days to stabilize!
- Updated a few cases where feeds with errors weren't responding with the correct status code
- Fixed a few small random failures in Patreon feeds
- Improved performance of Rumble feeds which made them a bit faster
- Improved and simplified the How to Use Open RSS Feeds page
- Small improvements to the alignment and spacing on blog pages
- Tucked footer behind a slight scroll on the home page
- Added RSS feed subscription buttons to the top of the Blog and Changelog pages because we were seeing that some users didn't know the pages had their own RSS feeds
06/01/2023
- Added a blog post about how RSS feeds may be better for your mental health
- Added a blog post on why browsers need to bring back the built-in RSS button
- Greatly improved the speed of many feeds including Twitter, Under Armour, Eventbrite, Amazon Prime Video, Antonioli, JustWatch, Tumblr, 31 Phillip Lim, CNN, Loewe, and GitHub Discussions feeds
- Added Twitch Blog and TwitCon feeds
- Added Washington Post category and author feeds
- Added USA Today homepage and section feeds
- Added ABC News feeds for homepage, sections, and authors
- BBC feeds now also include video articles
- Stabilized Twitch feeds so they're no longer erroring out randomly
- Fixed issue where reposted items werent appearing in some Odysee feeds
- Fixed odd Latin entities from appearing titles and content of CNN items
- Fixed issue where LinkedIn pages would return 429
- Fixed images and description in Washington Post feeds
- Fixed CNN section feeds
05/22/2023
- Changed the code quite a bit that has greatly improved the performance of many feeds, which was much needed for more popular feeds (like Twitter and GitHub) that were getting rather slow. The feeds aren't even close to being extraordinarily fast yet, but you should see a big improvement while we continue improving their response times.
- Unfortunately, in the process of implementing the big code change for performance, an issue occurred where the wrong feed items were showing up in certain Twitter feeds. This was a major boo boo on our part, and we've taken some critical steps to make sure this doesn't happen again.
- Added Washington Post feeds
- Added Bloomberg feeds
- Added Yahoo! News feeds
- Added CNN feeds
- Added support for "graphic" articles in Reuters feeds
- Updated JustWatch feeds to support TV Series
- Updated Twitter feeds to exclude "promotional" tweets
- Fixed images in Twitter feeds
- Fixed loading issue that caused TikTok feeds to show inaccurate items
- Fixed Twitch feeds when user has no videos
- Removed avatars from showing in TikTok feeds. We didn't want to do this, but TikTok is requiring requests to user avatar images to be signed for a certain amount of time, giving them the ability to track requests at a level that poses an unprecedented security risk. We'll turn these back on when it's safe to do so.
- Fixed issue where Twitch feeds were timing out
- Fixed Ground News feeds (this took us a while, but new feed items are now appearing like before)
- Fixed a small loading issue with some Inquirer feeds
- Fixed issue where some governmentjobs.com feed items were missing content
- Fixed hanging network idle issue with Aljazeera homepage feeds
05/15/2023
- Add NY Times feeds for homepage and sections
- Add BBC feeds for News and Culture sections
- Add Twitch feeds
- Fix rendering issue with Infostormer feed XML content
- Fix Telegram feed error that occurred when a user posted grouped media content
- Improved performance of Twitter feeds
- Fix random error that occurred on Patreon feeds
- Fix Indeed Jobs feeds
- Fix YouTube feed error due to incorrect parsing of originating Channel ID
- Set TikTok username as feed's author
- Fix mytheresa feeds
- Fix JustWatch feeds
05/03/2023
- Added TikTok feeds for user profiles (available for use, but currently still beta testing and should be stable soon)
- Added wired.com feeds
- Added indigoagriculture.com/indigoag.com feeds
- Added lcfc.com News feeds
- Added condenast.com News feed
- Added more Mastodon feeds
- Fixed issue when a WSJ.com feed has a missing or incomplete publisher
- Slightly improved the speed and performance of WSJ.com feeds - still rather slow though, so we're still looking for ways to make these even faster
- Now Twitter feed items include original tweet that was replied to in the description (instead of just in the title) so they can be seen with proper formatting
- Removed snarky but unnecessary headline from Terms page
- Now Github issues feeds include closed issues
- Show error when generating Telegram feed with private content
- Now t.me/:username feed paths are redirected to t.me/s/:username
04/24/2023
- Added Telegram user feeds (t.me and telegram.me)
- Added newegg.com feeds for category pages
- Added webwewant.fyi feeds for "wants" and events
- Improved feed titles and descriptions for Substack publications, podcasts, and newsletters
04/20/2023
- Added Amnesty.org feeds
- Added Latest News feed for 1792exchange.com
- Announced new Substack feeds in a blog post
- Unfortunately, we can't support poa.st feeds, so attempts to any of these feeds will now get an unsupported message
- Fixed issue when a title in JustWatch feeds has no image available
- Improved performance of Aljazeera and Reuters feeds
- Updated a few feeds to automatically redirect to most appropriate place when incorrect URLs are attempted
- Fixed encoding issue where some items were not showing on GitHub Tag feeds
- Fixed a few formatting and improved performance a bit for Mastodon timeline feeds
- Improved performance of Patreon feeds
- Removed redundant description in boosted Mastodon statuses
04/16/2023
- Added Substack Notes feeds which include support for images, podcasts, and posts made to a user's profile
- Added support for Substack feeds with content served from a custom Substack subdomain
- Added micro.blog feeds
- Now internally logging when the domain for a set of feeds hasn't had a new item in a reasonable amount of time, so we can address any potential issues
- Fixed some feed items that didn't pass validation due to lack of image information
- Fixed intermittent Not Found error when Twitter feeds are parsed
- Fixed 31philliplim feed issue caused by lack of a title on their website
- Fixed some hanging Twitter feeds
- Added more Mastodon feeds