Project Announcement: RSS Temple
So, I'm tentative to announce this project, as the server it's running on is a bit of a potato which will probably fall over pretty quick if it gains any traction, but...
Introducing RSS Temple!
If you're interested in a free RSS reader which attempts to mimic some of the more useful features of the big players (Feedly and Google Reader, in particular), including full-text search, hotkey navigation, small footprint interface, and sharing to both Lemmy and Mastodon (among others), I would love if you gave RSS Temple a try.
I've been working on this project for ~7 years now, and I alone cannot find any more bugs or usability issues, so I hope it's ready for the community to see. Any feedback is appreciated!
The code is open at:
https://github.com/murrple-1/rss_temple (server, Python)
https://github.com/murrple-1/rss_temple_ui (landing page and web app, Angular and EleventyJS)
https://github.com/murrple-1/ansible-collection-rss-temple (Ansible scripts to deploy one's own instance)
https://rsstemple.com/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
17 replies
Wow, that captcha is impossible.
Ugh, first impression matter immensely, and I dropped that ball, eh? :(
For what it's worth, I've set the captcha library back to its default settings, so hopefully the defaults are less obnoxious. The library I'm using is pretty popular, so I was guessing that bots would have fully trained their way around it by now, and so I chose some slightly less obvious fonts to put up a tiny bit of a barrier, but ya know, the balance of "legible for humans" and "hard for bots" is very hard. And I am no expert on captcha design
Yeah, the fact is today that the more advanced bots are probably better at captchas than humans. There isn't really a great solution here. But I tried at least 10 times before I got one right.
Aye, I'll stick with the defaults for now, at least until I have a bot problem (which is in some ways a good problem to have 😋)
I wanted to check this out but I did not find any documentation in how to set this up. The readme files are mostly empty.
As in, you'd like to run your own instance? Fair, I didn't expect that would be the first thing people would want to do, but I can make some better README docs for self-hosting
No, I did not see how to see any of the UI. What am I missing?
Ah, I see it now. rsstemple.com. I missed that earlier.
One thing that I noticed is that reading items is very difficult because basically as soon as they appear on the screen they are marked as read and become light-grey on white. Either the "read" style needs to be more readable or the marking of read should be deferred until I am done reading the article.
Noted, and I see what you're saying. The text needs higher contrast in the read state
I tried to upload a opml file and got a 400 response.
{"detail":"JSON parse error - Expected object or value"}
I don't suppose you would be able to share the OPML file with me?
Both issues have been noted, and I will investigate them ASAP
Sounds neat! I'll check it out later!
I'm basically tied to newsboat now (and I'm not complaining), but something where I don't have to hack it up with git would be nice, I suppose!
Might want to fill out your privacy policy :)
Damn, I hoped no one would notice that yet.
Informally, I am saving the bare minimum - even IP addresses are transient in my logs, no tracking, and profile deletion is total and immediate, but I don't think that's "legalese" enough
I would also move the currently selected article to the top of the page. Right now the article you are reading can jump around a little as you hit the J key to select the next one to read.