Shares
You can now share posts on FeedCity. Other citizens can follow you right in the app, others anywhere via RSS.
Updates: navigation placement changed again and a starry night sky.
I’ve been mainly working on behind the scenes improvements and streamlining the onboarding for new citizens in the last weeks.
But I’m back to making more day-to-day visible stuff. First up: the navigation on larger screens is back on the side again. I believe it’s a better placement, and I think it works with the current, slightly updated design.
There also have been some adjustments to the background: the clouds now stay fixed, even on iOS and iPadOS. And browser is now getting a starry night sky - where previously, this was only available in Safari (as this is the only browser supporting the new random() CSS function at the moment).
More updates soon.
/Daniel
UI Update: on large(r) screens, the navigation bar is now horizontal across the top. And the clouds are back.
New logo icon
FeedCity now has an updated logo icon. Here is the previous and the new icon side by side (the old one left/first):
It’s for sure an incremental update, but the larger RSS icon makes it a little more recognisable in small sizes. Plus, it looks a little more polished.
The site and its manifest.json file now also include a maskable version without the surrounding circle. This way, operating systems can crop or mask it as they see fit when installing FeedCity as an app (PWA), making the icon look more native to the platform. (If you had FeedCity already installed as an app, you need to reinstall it to make the new icon show.)
/Daniel
I also fixed a couple of bugs today:
- When multiple entries of a feed were fetched at once, those would show in the wrong order. Fixed
- Sometimes a feed would not immediately update, despite receiving a WebSub request. Fixed
The design of the UI has been updated throughout the site. The changes are more on the subtle side of things, but making everything look and feel more refined and consistent.
Bookmark anything
You can now bookmark any web page in FeedCity. Use the bookmarklet or iOS Shortcut to save an article, a podcast, or a video for later reading, listening or watching.
Fixed an issue with links in post: if they are relative URLs, they no get converted to absolute ones, so you can actually navigate to them.
Underutilised Feed Data
A feed file can contain quite a bit of useful information. And I think this is underutilised by a lot of existing feed readers.
There’s been a problem with updating feeds the last few hours. The problem is fixed now, and the updates are currently catching up.
I’ve changed and refined icons for the “Subscriptions” and “Feeds” pages, as well as for “Lists”, “Audio” and “Video”. And the “adding a feed to a list”-UI has seen a tiny improvement, too.
FeedCity is currently not reachable. I’m looking into it!
Update: Never mind. Just after I published this, everything seems to be back to normal. /Daniel
New Feature: "Go To"
There’s a new “Go To” functionality available, to quickly navigate to any of your feeds or lists.
The option is currently only shown on the navigation menu for larger screens, until the feature’s usability has been improved (in general, too, but in particular for those smaller screens).
/Daniel
Hello, World!
Earth has a new city: FeedCity. Where anyone can become a citizen and follow their favourite RSS feeds (and Atom and JSON feeds, too, of course).
Read more about what FeedCity is on its home page and/or by reading the announcement I published on my personal site.
On this very blog, I plan to write about all things RSS, Atom, JSON (and probably also a little bit about microformats and the Fediverse), announce new features or explain design decisions of existing ones.
If you want to follow along, you can subscribe in the following ways:
- Via RSS feed (also on FeedCity).
- Via JSON feed (also on FeedCity).
- In the Fediverse (Mastodon etc.): @FeedCity@news.feed.city.
You can also contact me at mail@feed.city.
/Daniel