demo.rss.chat: all posts

Communications

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:10:27 GMT

Testing my firehose reader (update). Testing. Turns out it wasn't the socket client that was the problem, but the fact that often the updates don't have titles and I was expecting them to. D'oh.

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:41:19 GMT

Seems pretty naive in hindsight. :-)

"Advertising will go poof" (Dave Winer, 2006)

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:46:41 GMT

“When they finish the process of better and better targeted advertising, that’s when the whole idea of advertising will go poof, will disappear. If it’s perfectly targeted, it isn’t advertising, it’s information. Information is welcome, advertising is offensive. Who wants to pay to create information that’s discarded? Who wants to pay to be a nuisance? Wouldn’t it be better to pay to get the information to the people who want it? Are you afraid no one wants your information? Then maybe you’d better do some research and make a product that people actually want to know about.”

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:36:31 GMT

“No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.” –Arthur C. Clarke

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:27:46 GMT

This is the post it came from.

http://scripting.com/stories/2008/09/16/theWholeWorldIsWatching.html

"The whole world is watching" (Dave Winer, 2008)

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:06:21 GMT

“Being an American in 2008 is a lot like working at Microsoft in 1994 or so. Netscape is coming soon and after that Google, and while we’ll still be here, the cursor will be somewhere else, and our stock options will be worthless and we’ll be fighting with each other while the rest of the world builds around us.” — Dave Winer

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:34:59 GMT

“I am tormented, or tantalized, by the sense that I am almost in view of something that is at the limit of my comprehension.” — Neal Stephenson’s Anathem (pg 543)

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:47:58 GMT

“He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.”— The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin (1971)

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:43:44 GMT

"The great ones are indifferent, in the profoundest sense. They don’t ask you to believe: they electrify you by their behavior."-- Henry Miller (Sexus)

Blog as platform

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:34:58 GMT

“a place where people can come to get a taste of what I think and what I stand for, and it’s a place where people can match and measure their own ideas against what I put out there.” -- Chris Brogan (2010)

You are what you learn

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:15:09 GMT

Scott Adams (2011): “It’s easy to feel trapped in your own life. Circumstances can sometimes feel as if they form a jail around you. But there’s almost nothing you can’t learn your way out of. If you don’t like who you are, you have the option of learning until you become someone else. Life is like a jail with an unlocked, heavy door. You’re free the minute you realize the door will open if you simply lean into it.”

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:22:13 GMT

I'm looking into how to document privacy for an RSS-based, federated service, and I'd love to see how others have handled it.

Specifically: what happens to a post once it leaves your server — syndicated over RSS, cached, crossposted to another instance, or shown by third-party readers? I'm based in Europe, so I'm especially keen on examples that aren't written purely from a US angle. Not looking for legal advice — mostly how people have actually thought about it.

A couple of decisions I ended up making, as discussion starters (and because I'd genuinely like to hear if others went a different way):

Erasure vs. federation. Once a post has been crossposted to another server, my take is that actual removal over there is up to that server (caches, archives) — we request the takedown, but can't guarantee it. How do you word this without either over-promising or scaring people off?

Traces after deletion. When an account is deleted, its old public address returns a permanent "account withdrawn" (HTTP 410) — which still reveals that a handle once existed. I chose to spell that out rather than pretend deletion is total. Does anyone handle this differently?

For context, here's where we're at right now (available in several languages; English here):
https://sofab.ch/public/legal/privacy-en.html

Genuinely interested in the RSS/federation side specifically.

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:32:58 GMT

“My optimism is like an old cat that likes to disappear for days, but I always expect it to return.”— Scott Adams

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:46:32 GMT

Thought this was quite interesting, https://textlog.cc/about

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:54:40 GMT

Do you ever sweat while computing? I don’t have the survey data to prove it, but I think people, when they compute, expend a lot of energy, enough energy to sweat, and that they sweat more than they replenish with water.

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:49:06 GMT

Do you ever feel that there are times when your computing setup is “just right”? Like, in the Goldilocks sense. Everything is just perfect, and you don't want it to change, because the number of bugs and annoyances are down to a minimum…somehow? I'm currently not there, but have been there a few days this year.

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:45:43 GMT

"There are, of course, differences between Micro.blog and rss.chat, but the intention behind both is very similar, isn't it?"

This app is holding the place for a protocol I want to be widely supported. It's also documented and there's even a validator for it. I want it to be easy to hook up other apps to the network this defines. And all the source code is released under the MIT license.

It's not my place to say what micro.blog is -- but the other day I called it: "the swiss army knife of interop in the web of the 2020's." And in that it is unique and imho irreplaceable.

I'm trying to create a new kind of network for discourse on the web.

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:37:08 GMT

Still my favorite: https://daftsocial.com/drikkes/

wiewas

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:28:25 GMT

Es gibt natürlich Unterschiede zwischen micro.blog und rss.chat, aber die Intention hinter beiden ähnelt sich doch sehr, oder?

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:23:38 GMT

https://www.redbubble.com/people/drikkes/shop

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:51:44 GMT

https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:44:14 GMT

The Agency was quite good.

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-agency-2024/

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:04:30 GMT

Well look at that @dave .. it worked .. taking the same route as you .. just in a different truck … here to Micro.blog to BlueSky … and Mastodon, Threads, Tumblr et al .. thanks to @manton.

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:58:25 GMT

Yes … despite the proclamation .. logo once again gone. I know why. I know how to fix it. I just need to actually do it!

... 6 hours later .. 💥Shakalak .. FIXED

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:49:35 GMT

Following some breadcrumbs.

Balanceeract

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:32:07 GMT

De afgelopen dagen denk ik weer na hoe ik online alles in balans breng. Mijn blog, interessante links, online aanwezigheid, CreativeNotes, comments, maar tegelijk de professionele kant van die online aanwezigheid. Hoe hou ik dat in evenwicht. Ik zou dat na 26 jaar bloggen toch wel moeten weten. Niets is minder waar. Het blijft zoeken. De huidige site op frankmeeuwsen.com is in elk geval niet voldoende. Dat is al een jaar een lelijke placeholder voor wat er zou moeten komen. Daar moet ik eens werk van maken. Maar er moet ook een manuscript af. Gelukkig heb ik nog een paar weken redelijk wat werkvrije tijd.

As often is the case..

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:07:05 GMT

This is a test post.

It has a title so it should be routed to the place where standard.site says they should go.

And I will be able to read them in this place.

Where I must imagine it behaves something like a feed reader.

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:56:31 GMT

Postscript. For the post that was to be routed to standard.site (whatever that means) I can find no evidence that something was sent somewhere.

The next test post

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:54:49 GMT

The first one worked.

It was routed through micro.blog. Basically everything I post to demo.rss.chat will go to my main account on Bluesky.Unless it has a title or is longer than 300 chars. Here's what we get using various Markdown features.

A list of five countries.

Portugal
Tanzania
Panama
Canada
Vietnam

Obviously there's bold, italic and a link. The Big Three. Okay that's a big, almost 500 chars, and that's enough for a nice little test.

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:42:29 GMT

This is a test.

This is a short less-than 300 char post, that is being routed to Bluesky via micro.blog.

Because it's short it it won't have to be upgraded to standard.site class, it can go through the analog of coach (the current limits of Bluesky).

Okay that's about it. Let's see if this mofo works.

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:52:55 GMT

what’s happening

Derek Sivers on the benefits of a daily diary (or blog)

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:15:19 GMT

“Years from now you might be looking back, wondering if you were as happy or as sad as you remember during this time. […] We so often make big decisions in life based on predictions of how we think we’ll feel in the future, or what we’ll want. Your past self is your best indicator of how you actually felt in similar situations. So it helps to have an accurate picture of your past. […] You can’t trust distant memories. But you can trust your daily diary. It’s the best indicator to your future self (and maybe descendants) of what was really going on in your life at this time.”https://sivers.org/dj

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:04:35 GMT

“Any information system of sufficient complexity will inevitably become infected with viruses — viruses generated from within itself.” — Snow Crash

WebSub support for RSS.chat

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:22:49 GMT

Previously we were only able to notify via rssCloud.

Now we also support WebSub because there are also a fair number of feed readers that only use WebSub.

We're using Andrew Shell's rsscloud.io as our WebSub hub, as we have for a long time with rssCloud.

Andrew please help us figure out if this is working correctly.

The source is in the repo, along with a worknote.

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:24:13 GMT

all the bootstrap things, i love watching this boot up! Still digging :-) etc. Thanks Dave and all the developers and testers

Staying Human

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:14:31 GMT

It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.” -- George Orwell

Dave Winer on how we'll be remembered (2019)

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:17:18 GMT

“This will be remembered as the time we all waited for someone else to take the risk, not wanting to disturb our lives. The spoiled citizens of a country that fought wars without a draft, that got tax cuts in time of war, inflated our economy as we inflicted chaos on others.”– Dave Winer

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:25:19 GMT

I love Orolo. I want him to be my grandpa.

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:39:22 GMT

New York Times Sunday crossword today.

38 down: Blog feed letters

SPEELYCAPTOR

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:17:19 GMT

“It’s hard to explain, but, for me, just aiming a speelycaptor (video recorder) at something doesn’t collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words.”— ANATHEM (Neal Stephenson)

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:56:26 GMT

RSS love

Taking my cue from Andrew Shell (of rssCloud Server fame, about which you will be hearing more soon ;-), i have added a little feature to the footer of this site, which expresses my appreciation to Dave Winer, Andrew and the wonderful RSS community, which makes syndication of all sites great and small Really Simple!

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:20:17 GMT

Just made a small change in the way we prepare feeds, and I have to post something to cause the feeds to rebuild.

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:53:20 GMT

Hi Robert, I had Claude tell me that you're the generous developer who wrote us that thoughtful report last night about the security issue.

FIrst, there are no plans for the /localnewuser function, we put it in because we watched some users struggle through installing the server because they had to set up the email server connection before they could log onto the site themselves. We could also see it as a way for a sysop to set up accounts for users. No plans to do anything more with it.

We tried out a bunch of ideas here to integrate news with what rss.chat does, the best one imho was a blogroll, like the one you see on scripting.com, in the left column. That's the way I'd go. But if posts from Bluesky show in the timeline then the discussions are going to be like discussions on Bluesky. And we already have Bluesky for that. :-)

What I really want is an RSS-to-Standard.site bridge, both ways. That will give an outlet to leaflet to the whole web, not just the ones who study AT Proto.

And again thanks for the report. It was basically perfect. ;-)

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:05:24 GMT

Song of the day: "Highlands" from Bob's Time Out of Mind.

— via @chris, https://chatouk.sofab.ch/p/Yipcb6ASd47t

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?

Security issue

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:50:20 GMT

A user contacted us about a potential security issue in the RSS.chat server. We responded quickly and with v0.6.11 the issue is removed. If you're running rssnetwork.js on a publicly visible server, please install the new version asap.

a new newer test

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:38:15 GMT

this is a test of rss chat

this si a test of linking: my mastodon account, feel free to join me there.

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:21:17 GMT

Speaking of RSS, Marc Weidenbaum is using FeedLand and GitHub to curate an OPML file of electronic music feeds: https://disquiet.com/2026/07/31/electronic-music-rss-starter-kit/

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:51:24 GMT

You're absolutely right. With WordPress you can go from rss.chat to mastodon.

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:14:52 GMT

Testing ActivityPub from WP

I just learned that it’s possible to join this WordPress blog to the Fediverse, by simply activating the ActivityPub plugin that is already installed… So let’s see if this works!

New features today

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:46:23 GMT

A validator and a way to add menus to the RSS.chat menubar, if you're running your own instance.

Links on today's Scripting home page.

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:05:09 GMT

That’s possible on the little Elixir clone server I’m working on. And if a user changes her screen name, her feed’s exposed URL also changes, although the feed’s item links stay the same.

Bullshit Jobs (2013)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:16:17 GMT

“Technology has been marshaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless. Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. … Given the choice between less hours and more toys and pleasures, we’ve collectively chosen the latter.”David Graeber is a Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:11:11 GMT

Gentle bump on this one — still wondering if there's a supported path (or an experimental endpoint) for changing a user's email while keeping screenname and feed. Happy to test on rsschat.sofab.ch.

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:22:59 GMT

In what way?

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:15:23 GMT

I do hope you don't find this necessary. I've been using demo.rss.chat as a devel playground, mostly focusing on the API's behavior, and if it becomes read-only, I might as well do my hacking against the main rss.chat. Or bite the bullet and start running an instance locally, which I've been studiously avoiding.

No spam, personal stuff, etc

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:37:20 GMT

I like this site, I want to keep it open, and as long as moderation is a rare thing, ie people behave like adults and professionals, we'll be fine. But if the moderation gets to be too much, it'll become read only.

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:09:24 GMT

This looks spammy.

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:56:15 GMT

Speaking of RSS, if you're looking for the RSS feed of the People and Blogs series, now run by Zachary Kai, it's at https://zacharykai.net/assets/files/feeds/pb.xml

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:42:43 GMT

I built a small experiment on top of the rss.chat API: https://chatouk.sofab.ch — an independent public-posts app that bridges with the rss.chat network.

It works both ways. A reply written in Chatouk is crossposted through the API and threads correctly here. And replies posted here flow back in real time into Chatouk threads via the WebSocket firehose, shown with their origin.

Nothing but open standards: RSS out, the rss.chat API for crossposting, the firehose for listening. The bridge setup is multi-server — this instance and https://rsschat.sofab.ch are connected so far, adding another takes one command.

Drupal's Aggregator Module

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:52:14 GMT

Speaking of RSS, let me tell you the story of Drupal's Aggregator module. I actually don't know the full story of it, just my (extensive) experience with it.

I first encountered Drupal in 2004 when I met Boris Mann (yes, that Boris Mann) and over breakfast at a diner in Vancouver, he said to me "Richard, I want you to know as much about Drupal as you know about Movable Type." I fell in love right away, though this was the era when you had to import MySQL files to install a module. The Aggregator module came with the core of the software, so no database installation needed.

What's the Aggregator module? Well, it takes RSS feeds, pulls them on the schedule you define, and republishes them on your Drupal site. You can see it in action here: https://richard.eriksson.ca/blogosphere We (Boris, Roland and I) ran a site called Urban Vancouver, and every time we encountered a Vancouver-based blog, we aggregated (technically syndicated) it on the site. It got us into trouble every now and then, and we had arguments with copyright holders as to whether they were right about violation (they were) but also whether they benefited from being syndicated (they did). So we asked for forgiveness rather than permission and with experience comes maturity, so I don't know how I'd handle it content syndication (re-publication, not just feed aggregation for personal reading) via RSS would go over today.

But you know what was interesting about the aggregator module? You could categorize feeds. Correction, you can categorize feeds. The "Richard's Blogosphere" link above is a category of feeds that I just give a URL to. And get this: It comes with OPML: https://richard.eriksson.ca/blogosphere/opml so if I were to add a feed to it via the UI, it would get added there. If you were to subscribe to that OPML feed in a "Reading List"-compatible reader, the list of feeds would update as well.

Back in the 2000s (the decade), we had this idea of becoming content DJs, where we would aggregate (pull in) content via RSS, and tag each content item with a category, and it would link to the original URL. Content DJs could take that feed and further "remix" it.

That's an idea that's not dead, by the way. https://justagwailo.com/shared (which has a feed at https://justagwailo.com/shared/feed ), in its heyday, would pull in my "Likes" from around the web. Peter Rukavina (yes, that Peter Rukavina) does something extremely similar at https://ruk.ca/favourites (with an RSS feed!). Drupal is part of the mix there as well, but from what I can tell, it's a smaller part of the mix than my implementation.

Aggregator is now a contributed module, not part of core, as the Drupal core project has both expanded and simplified. I love it so much that I ported it to the fork of Drupal 7, Backdrop, and maintain it.

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:08:21 GMT

I can't help with the technicalities but these are relevant to your third question

https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/07/26/446b1/

https://rsc.rmdes.be/post/d4703ff0-3de9-47ea-8a5d-bbb9525054dd

https://rsc.rmdes.be/post/1b7a75fa-173f-4d54-ac76-93205db0d599

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:30:29 GMT

I think that one was posted directly on demo.rss.chat to let Matthias Pfefferle know how I was getting on.

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:14:16 GMT

1. That's a new account, and a new feed.

2. We were planning ahead, leaving space for an enclosure. We don't have a UI for that yet.

3. Yes, use OPML, create a list of servers. That's what software that wants to work with federations will require as input.

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:51:50 GMT

I have an rss.chat UI added to my naive Elixir/Phoenix-built news reader (which started out with the API from feedbin). I only have a couple of unanswered questions:

1. rss.chat feed permalinks are based on the screenname. What happens if a user wants to change her handle?

2. the API indicates that an item can have an enclosure, but I don’t see how to post an item with an enclosure either vis the frontend or via the API.

3. Are there any ideas about how to grow a federation of rss.chat servers? (This question may expose my naivite concerning RSS’s inbound and outbound possibilities.)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:37:25 GMT

Question for the rss.chat team, from the operator of the instance at rsschat.sofab.ch: is there a supported way for a user to change their email address after signup? One user is switching to a new email address and wants to keep their screenname and feed.

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:26:02 GMT

Did this show up on the other side?

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:42:04 GMT

My hacking continues. I managed to create a zero-length media object at demo.rss.chat/media/23 (this is what happens when you forget the @ in the curl command). I suspect that eventually, endpoints for /deletemedia and /updatemedia will be needed.

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.

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:17:55 GMT

Surprisingly, posting from my smartphone interrupted the song I was listening to on Qobuz (the new Rough and Twisted at the time). Oh well—I like silence too.

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:01:03 GMT

Examining my prior post (the one I'm replying to, id=343), I see that the markdowntext element is not my original markdown, but has been converted to HTML.

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:56:00 GMT

Wonderful. Got this working on rss.chat. Post and comments from that post originated on my site.

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:53:12 GMT

From my vim to your feed

If you can read this, my bash scripts are functional. Not pretty, but functional.

The rss.chat API docs have improved substantially, saving me from going down some deep rabbit holes.

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:33:05 GMT

I’ve updated my feedland account with feeds about rss

Scour
Lemmy
Reddit
Hacker news

https://feedland.com/?username=adamspaul

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:04:12 GMT

Not sure if this is the most effective way, but I have a scheduled GitHub action that will poll the rss feed for changes, if it finds replies, it writes it to a file (one per slug/post on my site) into `_data` which makes it available to liquid templating `site.data.replies` and then in my templates I check for matches to the slug and then foreach and render the html into the file at build.

The python does the heavy lifting of sanitising the html parsing the rss etc

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:48:11 GMT

great to see you here matthias. wow.

sent an email. definitely want to chat.

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:34:47 GMT

rss.chat for WordPress: https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-rss-chat

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:24:51 GMT

Yet another test. Having some trouble with markdown, but it is probably my fault. I did not provide this time, only .

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:17:05 GMT

let’s chat!

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:48:18 GMT

Yet another test. Having some trouble with markdown, but it is probably my fault. I did not provide description this time, only markdowntext.

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:40:36 GMT

Another test. I *did notes.md notes.md~ notes.md.backup provide description this time, only markdowntext.

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:23:23 GMT

We updated the docs this morning — hopefully it's clearer now how this works. Thanks for your help.

https://github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/server/docs/api.md

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:38:13 GMT

it would be interesting to hook up the output of rss.chat to the input of Jekyll using templates or themes or whatever they call them in the Jekyll.

How to add a jekyll collection

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:33:30 GMT

https://thechels.uk/how-to-add-a-jekyll-collection

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:22:47 GMT

hello world!

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:34:54 GMT

I’ll have Claude look into this tomorrow. It will explain to me what’s going on and we may change something.

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:20:42 GMT

Not really, no.

For case 1 (both "description" and "markdowntext" populated), I wasn't sure what to expect, but the server accepted having both of them, and the website displayed the contents of "description".

For case 2 (only "markdowntext' provided), I expected a failure, since api.md says that "description" is a required field. I also did not expect the website to display an empty post.

I was expecting some kind of relationship between these two fields, where a change to one might trigger a change to the other.

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:29:41 GMT

Did it work as you expected it would?

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:42:57 GMT

This was a call with no description, only markdowntext

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:42:16 GMT

This was a call to newpost where description and markdowntext were populated to different things.

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:39:35 GMT

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:35:21 GMT

Contents of description

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:00:42 GMT

As you put it "html fragments" not full html pages.

It's just a question of whether you prefer writing in the wizzy editor (the default) or the markdown editor. Since you're coming at it from a script, not sure exactly how it would work. I'm away from home right now and can't look it up. There are docs for the calls now, you could check that out.

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:29:03 GMT

I'm experimenting with API calls, working purely from the api.md document. Currently, I have been able to post here using /newpost. Here are the things I'm attempting to understand:

When we say that "description" is HTML, do we mean HTML fragments, or a complete <HTML></HTML> document?

What happens if I populate both description and markdowntext?

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:33:34 GMT

Sample post

This post starts as a MarkDown file

level 2 code block line 2 and 3

bullet
another
and a third

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:29:17 GMT

Testing via python script.

RSS Chat

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:28:39 GMT

https://thechels.uk/rss-chat

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:55:16 GMT

On the soFab side (we self-host an rss.chat instance at rsschat.sofab.ch), here's how we're handling it in the meantime — from our privacy policy, now live:

Image and video metadata. Images and videos uploaded to mytis.sofab.ch are re-encoded or remuxed on receipt: embedded metadata (EXIF — GPS location, device details, timestamps) is removed and never stored. Files contained in ZIP archives are transferred as-is and are not modified. Exception: rsschat.sofab.ch runs third-party software (rss.chat), where posts are public by design; it does not yet strip metadata, so files posted there keep their embedded metadata.

We deliberately don't patch the rss.chat code we host, so disclosure is our interim answer — if stripping lands upstream, we'll happily delete that exception sentence.

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:45:51 GMT

New docs for the API that connects RSS.chat to the server.

https://github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/client/docs/apijs.md

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:27:51 GMT

My second internet job was curating the homepage for Netscape Online (which came on a CD)