FeedCity

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:23:53 +0200

New little feature: a multi-image gallery now features a little image count indicator.

Such a horizontally scrolling gallery is rendered, when an entry includes multiple images as enclosures, or they are added via the Media RSS extension. Example feed: Kenneth Wajda

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:39:25 +0200

You can now share posts in FeedCity.

Hit the green “Quote” icon and you’ll see the “Share” dialogue open. Write a note and hit “Share”.

Writing a note or comment is mandatory. I feel it’s often those personal comments that make sharing extra useful and/or interesting. It’s a “Quote-Post” not a “Re-Post”.

Webmentions

Just as with “Likes”, a webmention is sent for supporting websites (denoted by the orange webmention icon).

Bookmarklet

And of course there’s also a bookmarklet, with which you can share any website you’re currently visiting. You’ll find it - like all bookmarklets - on the “Add” page.

Following other citizens

You can follow any FeedCity citizen from their “shares” page ¹. Here’s mine: https://feed.city/c/dan/shares. And anyone else with a feed reader can follow your shares, too. They just need add .atom or .rss to the URL and add this to their feed reader.

Happy sharing!

/Daniel

You currently have to know the username of someone to be able to follow, as I haven’t build the user-discovery part of this, yet. ↩︎

Updates: navigation placement changed again and a starry night sky.

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:47:26 +0200

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

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:54:24 +0200

UI Update: on large(r) screens, the navigation bar is now horizontal across the top. And the clouds are back.

New logo icon

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:46:26 +0200

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

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:53:23 +0200

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

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:42:45 +0200

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.

Likes

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:08:53 +0200

You can now “like” any post within FeedCity, simply by tapping or clicking the heart icon at the bottom.

This gives you another possibility to collect posts in a separate list.

Webmentions

If you have a citizen name set, and the site supports Webmentions, FeedCity will also send this “Like” to the author of the article and/or site in form of a webmention.

Webmention support is now also indicated by the small orange “W”-sign next to each feed’s name (if there’s no icon, there’s no Webmention support).

Individual “Likes” are public, so that the receiving site of the Webmention can verify it and has the ability to link back to it.

Like any web page

Just like with bookmarks, you can also “like” any web page. There’s a new bookmarklet available on the “Add” page you can copy to your browser’s toolbar. Tap/click this when you’re on any website, and it will get added to your “Likes”. If the site supports Webmentions, FeedCity will also sent one out.

Misc

There’s no public list of your “Likes” within FeedCity.

But like all lists, “Likes” also come with their own set of private RSS and Atom feeds you can use to integrate in whatever workflow you want. You find all private feeds on the “Account” page.

/Daniel

Updated feed profile pages

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:57:52 +0200

In case you didn’t know, every feed has its own public profile page. And those have a new look: everything’s more organised and more information-dense. For people who have an account, there’s now a single row of buttons to do your subscribing/unsubscribing, favouriting, refreshing and list management.

The list management has been updated alongside, too: you can now add or remove a feed from all your lists in one go with a new modal UI.

Here’s some examples feed profiles:

/Daniel

Bookmark anything

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:55:00 +0200

You can now bookmark any web page in FeedCity.

Regardless of whether its feed is already on FeedCity or not, and regardless of whether it has a feed at all. If it’s public, you can bookmark it.

It works with articles, podcast episodes, video pages, and any other public content.

Essentially, you can now use FeedCity as your “Read Later” service. This keeps your bookmarks all in one place, no matter where they came from.

To add a bookmark, you can use the provided bookmarklet or an iOS/iPadOS Shortcut. Find those on the “Add” page in FeedCity.

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:57:54 +0200

Some feeds weren’t updating in the last hours. This is fixed now and updates have caught up.

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:07:53 +0200

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

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:02:25 +0200

A feed file - be it in RSS, Atom, or JSON format - can contain quite a bit of useful information. And I think this is underutilised by a lot of existing feed readers.

This is true for both feed level attributes as well as feed entry level attributes.

On the feed level, even simple and straight forward information like a description /subtitle or details about the author(s) are often ignored. And sure, there are more obscure attributes like rights/copyright or generator, which might not be as relevant. Nevertheless, all this information together adds up, and can really give a more comprehensive picture about a feed - if this data has been added by the publisher.

That’s why FeedCity has (public) “profile” pages for all feeds, displaying all this information.

And when you’re logged in, you also get a “Reply via Email” link under every entry, if its author has added this info to the feed (or an individual feed entry/item). This enables a simple, easy, and open comment system (others seem to agree).

And on the feed entry level, there’s an enclosure attribute for example, which often seems to get ignored: be it for “audio”-, “video”-, or even “image”-content. This seems to be forcing feed creators to stick everything into an item’s generic content attribute. Which is not wrong per se - and sometimes preferable even. But I think, if it’s in the spec, basic things like this should be shown by a feed reader.

And there are even more attributes that I didn’t mention, which could (and should) be utilised. FeedCity does not show all available information, yet, either. But I’m determined to change this bit by bit and render increasingly information-rich feeds and feed items/entries.

/Daniel

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 08:32:48 +0200

There’s been a problem with updating feeds the last few hours. The problem is fixed now, and the updates are currently catching up.

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:33:47 +0200

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.

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:30:48 +0200

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

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:19:56 +0200

Fixed a bug with “Load more” pagination.

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:06:57 +0200

I made some rather subtle changes to how links look.

New Feature: "Go To"

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:36:16 +0200

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!

Thu, 29 May 2025 00:28:06 +0200

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

FeedCity

Shares

Webmentions

Bookmarklet

Following other citizens

Updates: navigation placement changed again and a starry night sky.

New logo icon

Likes

Webmentions

Like any web page

Misc

Updated feed profile pages

Bookmark anything

Underutilised Feed Data

New Feature: "Go To"

Hello, World!