![]() ![]() ‘siteadmin’), or when the URL contains appended tracking elements that I want to remove. This sometimes is useful when the title is very long, the name in the feed is a user name (e.g. It also allows me to change the title, author name and URL of the original post. In the form I specify what type of response it is (reply, bookmark, or favourite), and I write my reaction, and can add a quote from the article above which is useful if I’m responding to something specific, and provides context for readers on my own site who aren’t aware of the posting I’m responding to. Each posting has a button like that.Ĭlicking such a button reveals a form (which is at first hidden, and revealed by a line of Javascript). Note the button underneath which says in Dutch ‘respond to the post above’. Here’s a posting by Peter, as presented in my feed reader: The only new additions were the ‘glue’ needed to join the existing parts together, and a bit of Javascript to be able to process the form in the browser, while staying on the same page as where I’m reading feeds. So adding this was more a remix than coding something new. For instance I already had a form, to formulate a response (originally stuck on the back-end of another feedreader), and a way of posting directly to this site. To build it I re-used things I previously already created. ![]() The next step was interacting with the things I read from within the reader, having a reply button underneath each posting, with which I can post to this blog. I had the basic fetching and presenting part done earlier this week. It makes it possible to shape my feed reader the way I want it. By splitting the server (subscribing, fetching and storing) from the client (presenting), making the feed reader becomes building a website that can show me whatever is stored in the server. That’s the Microsub server, and I use an existing WordPress plugin called Yarns for it. It does not in itself subscribe to any feeds, or store what it gets from those feeds. A few days ago I already posted about how I am building a Microsub client, which basically is the front-end of a feed reader: it’s the part where you actually read the content from the RSS feeds you subscribe to. Today I posted a bookmark directly to this blog, straight from a feed reader I created myself. ![]()
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