FeedCity

It was reported that until someone posted for the first time, their feed address answered with a 404 -- which looked broken to anyone who subscribed to the whole community from the subscription list. Wrong, and now fixed two ways: when a new account is created, the server publishes the feed immediately -- a valid RSS feed with the user's name and no items yet -- and at startup the server checks every user and quietly publishes a feed for anyone missing one, so everyone who signed up before this change is covered too. A user is a feed, from day one. (Server v0.6.5.)

One line in config.json turns it on: "flNightlyBackup": true. Every night the server writes its whole database -- users, posts, likes, files, media -- to one dated JSON file in data/backups/, using the same export format that carried both public servers through the SQLite migration, restorable onto a fresh server with the import verb. Nothing to install, no cron, no scripts: the server does it itself, the way it should be. It's off by default; flip the flag and restart.

Get the new rssnetwork.js and package.json from the repo and restart. On the first restart you'll see a log line for each user whose feed gets backfilled, then it's quiet. Add "flNightlyBackup": true to config.json if you want the nightly backup.

Two new submenus under Docs: Blog posts, with the Scripting News pieces that tell the rss.chat story -- what it's for, how the ecosystem fits together, today's post about the API -- and Github Repo, with the places a user or developer would want in the repo: the repo home, how to run your own server, the API docs, the example apps, the questions-and-answers thread, and both worknotes pages. Everything about rss.chat is now one click from inside rss.chat. By DW.

Every conversation on rss.chat has always been walkable through the feeds -- each post's item points at a comments feed, each reply can point at its own, and the threadwalker example assembles a thread that way, one fetch per post, no API needed. Now there's a second door: ca...

When the app starts up it registers a hit, so there's a running count of how much rss.chat is used. But everyone running their own server uses this same client -- and their visitors were being counted too, hits arriving from servers that aren't ours. Now the client checks which server it's serving and only counts when it's on an rss.chat domain. If you run your own install, your traffic is yours alone. Fixed by DW. (Client v0.6.12.)

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