Month: September 2023

I have a FL icon in my browser window, the second one after Gmail, and now it points at the A8C instance, not feedland.org. I’m going to try to make this my main feedland. I think at this point it may be possible to do this, after the recent fixes. What domain name to use?…

Yesterday I posted an item here on the FeedLand blog about the WP-Projects news product at wpprojects.feedland.dev. Today I’d like to explain what the wpprojects list is, from my point of view, and why it is so unique and important and imho visionary. You can download the list itself in OPML by clicking on the…

This is the most useful and imho amazing News Product site so far on FeedLand. It may ultimately be the one that proved the concept, once and for all. It’s that momentous, of course, imho, ymmv etc. https://wpprojects.feedland.dev/ It’s a reverse chronologic list of new posts written by people who Automattic works with. How to…

Fernando has fixed the caching problem and now the test for the memory fix function returns a good result. So here’s the plan now that we’ve passed this hurdle I’m working on something related to News Products that I want to show, hopefully later today. After that is delivered, I will switch over to testing…

This is not strictly about FeedLand. Suppose I have an idea for an editor for WordPress posts. I have a constraint, the editor can’t save any information about the post that isn’t in the HTML code for the post. This severely limits the kinds of editors developers can write. Instead if WordPress had the idea…

I’ve updated the code that tests for the memory problem on the A8C server. Now that we know what the problem is, the code can test for the specific problem. How to test Go to a8c.feedland.org and log in. Open the JavaScript console in the browser. (In Chrome, View menu,  Developer sub-menu.) Enter: testUserDatafiles () If it…

An update on settings in a8c.feedland.org. Here’s the problem, the user experience… You would save your settings, but then if you went back to the Settings dialog, they would appear to have not changed. What was going wrong When we asked for the JSON file that stores the user’s settings, it was being cached because…

More thoughts on why we’re doing this — First, it’s a good useful product. it would be worth doing even if RSS wasn’t moving, slightly, after being dormant all these years. It’s like a time capsule. It went out to the far edge of the galaxy, and came back and didn’t age at all while…

This question came up in my weekly chat with Christie earlier today. Why is A8C offering FeedLand as a service? There are still a lot of users and feeds, and new sources of feeds, from Mastodon, and other social networks. In other words, RSS is moving again. I made a new platform to do new…

Here’s the scenario: 1. I’m looking at a story on a site that’s really good. 2. This is the second story I’ve read recently from that site, both were good. 3. I should subscribe to this site. 4. Click the bookmarklet. If the site has a feed, I’m subscribed. If not, a dialog appears saying…