fyr.io

Hello, you lovely little RSS feed reader you! RSS feeds are pretty cool, aren't they? I recently got a new phone but am yet to sort out a feed reader on it. I still use my old phone, so I'm not missing out! But I wanted to get two things added to the site before I begun the search of the perfect mobile reader (or signed up to one of the homebrew web based ones a couple people I know are maintaining):

1. Add the ability to post "secret" RSS-only articles (like this one!)
2. Add a "full" feed for all three of my existing RSS feeds which includes the entire contents of the post/scrap

I've now done these things on the big tidy up task I've just been through. I saw the "post hidden content just for your RSS feed users" idea on Mastodon months ago and have wanted to do it ever since. Now I can! :D These secret posts that show up on RSS but not on the list of posts (or scraps) are still viewable in a web browser if you know the URL! As for the full RSS feeds, if you're so inclined, feel free to adjust your RSS feed subscription to one of the following RSS feeds instead of the one you're currently subscribed to! They are:

The "everything" feed, the "posts" feed, and the "scraps" feed, which each come in two flavours: "Title & Summary only" (which is the original feed type), or "Title, Summary & full contents" (the new one!)

You can find these feed links on the /feeds page!

I wrangle this site myself, it's home grown with minimal third party libraries (none on your end, only a couple built-in PHP ones!) and... well hey, let's just say I ain't a coder, alright? I'm a scrappy slinger of PHP, HTML & CSS, so I'm bound to have made mistakes. If you notice any errors or wish to suggest improvements in both the code, the output, or within article content itself, lemme know! And speaking of making mistakes...:

Oh one more thing

Ages ago I made some changes here and there and all of a sudden, all the posts in the fyr.io feed came back as unread! I didn't know what caused it at the time, but now I do. For some reason I'm using YYYY-MM-DD for the <pubDate>, whereas before I was using the CORRECT method, which is to use an RFC822 formatted time & date! Doh! Sorry about this if you saw it. I want to fix it, but I also want to not piss off you, my wonderful RSS feed readers (again) so... maybe I'll post another RSS only post alerting people to the change well in advance.

That's all, have a good one!