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Golang port of the backend updated

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:02:39 GMT

I had a nice relaxing evening watching some bananaball, with a cat asleep next to me, while my buddy Claude and I updated my Golang port of the rss.chat backend.

The big updates are getting back to feature parity with Dave's version.
- User management and authentication ✅
- Post creation, updates, deletion ✅
- Threaded conversations ✅
- Like/unlike functionality ✅
- RSS feed generation ✅
- Media uploads with validation ✅
- Real-time WebSocket updates ✅
- WebSub support ✅And we added in a new Comprehensive E2E Test Suite.

The code is all uploaded to GitHub. (https://github.com/roberte3/rss.chat.go)

Let me know if there are any problems/etc.

-Rob

Bluesky post import utility

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:43:42 GMT

I've got an initial version of a utility program that gets Bluesky posts and posts them into rss.chat.

The thought behind it is that if there is an important news account that you want to see in the chat and have discussions about this is a simple bridge to bring that to the feed. (Like a breaking news account on Election Day or the Wario64 video game deals feed).

It is using the /localnewuser? endpoint which is very new (as of the last week). I'm not 💯 on using it, so I wanted to ask what the plans are for that endpoint before posting something that uses it on GitHub.

Thoughts?

new rss.chat backend

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:39:28 GMT

Over the weekend, I sat down with my old buddy Claude and made a new backend for rss.chat written with Go.

The big differences are that it splits the database into more task relevant pieces, and ports it to sqlite rather than mysql. (its just a file!).

With this new foundation I'm able to do some hacking on pieces that I'm interested in, like websockets (I'm super impressed with Bluesky's ATProtocol "Jetstream" service), and getting a native phone interface up and running.

The code is available at https://github.com/roberte3/rss.chat.go.