Playing with FeedLand reminds me that Micro.blog doesn’t have OPML export. The reason is because some people might have private-ish RSS feeds that power their account. This is rare but I wanted to be careful about exposing the URLs. Need to first add OPML that only includes obviously-public feeds.
@manton You could still let authenticated users export their own feed list. Or have a per-feed setting where users can flag a feed as “private,” in case you decide to ever offer public OPML endpoints.
@manton What is FeedLand? Is it a browser based RSS reader? I haven’t created an account with FeedLand and so cannot play with it at the moment.
@crossingthethreshold It has an RSS reader in it, and an interface for managing feeds and publishing custom timelines of news. This post from Dave is another intro.
@manton I keep meaning to take time to check out feedland, but haven’t gotten around to it. Do you know of a better explainer than just poking around on their site provides?
@cchelberg There's this blog post and the docs, but poking around was actually the best way for me because then you can see how it works with real feeds.
@manton @cchelberg I stop reading the doc at this line “First, go to feedland.org and log in with your Twitter account.”.
I no longer use Twitter, even less for authentication. Pass.
@numericcitizen I think some users and developers—against accumulated experience, and against many rational and straightforward arguments—believe that big internet players will somehow "be cool", will think of the internet itself as more important than anything they might craft to put on it. And so would never, for example, leave users in a lurch by switching off something that had been switched on "the whole time"—this, rather than re(re)re:re-inventing put_me_on_net().
@bkryer @numericcitizen ...or put another way, some folks running big regional banks maybe as stupid as some running tech cos—but not so stupid as to wreck the market they themselves exist in.
@numericcitizen I thought the same as you. I wanted to like it, or at least try it - but Twitter authentication was a locked door for me. But FeedLand has now switched to email authentication, same as Micro.blog.
lots of questions re feedland in this thread … highly recommend you follow @dave (winer) … feedland is his latest offering to the world on reading and writing online, he also ‘knows a thing or two’ about RSS, Podcasts and interoperability.
@JohnPhilpin -- thanks for linking me into this thread. i'll check in to see if people have questions.
