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10/21/2026, 10:59:32 PM
Testing posting from the RSS reader app.
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10/21/2026, 10:58:37 PM
10/18/2026, 01:46:30 PM
I started a little RSS reader in Tilde Friends. You can play with it here, and I'll publish the app in a bit.
It currently just fetches feeds from the client every load (using a CORS proxy on failure). It has some of the old Google Reader j/k/v key bindings. You edit your list of feeds by putting RSS/Atom links in a textbox and clicking save (they're saved in Tilde Friends or localStorage depending on whether you're signed in). That's about it.
But I'm super excited about its potential. I think if I'm a little smarter about caching news, authoring SSB post messages to share or comment on an article, and displaying posts that mention articles, I'm 99% of the way there to feeling like Google Reader. Also my feed parsing needs to be better, but eh. đ¤ˇââī¸ī¸
10/03/2026, 04:40:28 PM
Tilde Friends 0.2026.9
The latest release is out on all of the platforms.
Change notes:
- Improved load times.
- Fix an issue where a canceled autocomplete would truncate messages.
- Better error handling for missing or partial apps.
- Add gui executables on desktop that open a webview like on mobile.
- Recover automatically when app is disconnected when backgrounded.
- Update: CodeMirror, emojis 18.0, libbacktrace, libuv 1.53.0.
The GUI executables are an experiment that I think is somewhat interesting. The Windows tildefriends-gui.exe and Linux AppImages all run like a local app using an embedded browser, very similarly to the mobile version. I couldn't get the MacOS version working in time, but that might be in the cards, too. The Linux version has some glibc / gtk dependencies which make it not guaranteed to just work, but they're pretty old, so I expect they will.
There are also .debs and docker containers available.
As always, feedback is welcome on all things.
10/01/2026, 02:47:19 PM
From IRC:
<paulgupta> Is anyone actually still using SSB in practice in 2026?
Well is anyone?