Openring
Dev tools
static site generator plugin
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
13 positive, 26 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 10 for, 4 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Nostalgic revival of webrings and blogrolls; good for decentralized discovery.
From 4 comments
It allows bloggers that want to keep control over their own platform and content (read: not use Medium) to be part of a bigger network of selfhosted blogs. Like in the good old…
vbsteven on HNah, what's old is new again. i can't wait to get my 1999 on! =) the subtitle is a little more informative: "A webring for static site generators." i'm glad to see this kind of…
clairity on HNWow this gave me a serious flashback to late 90's websites and all the links to other sites in a network.
dfischer on HNlove it! i always wondered what happened to the good old blogroll
blondin on HN
Useful way to show other blogs on your own site.
From 2 comments
You rig it into your own blog. It's designed for use with static site generators. Check out the links on the bottom of my blog posts:…
Sir_Cmpwn on HNI liked this, and added it to my site: https://www.jefftk.com/p/openring
jefftk on HN
Objections
Curation and search are unsolved; webrings were poor at quality discovery.
From 2 comments
How does it solve curation & search? Edit: I'm asking because I suspect your answer is going to be "it doesn't/that's not the point/who cares?" But people who read blogs will…
flunhat on HNI always liked the concept of webrings as a vehicle of discovery, but in practice it was always terrible. Nobody curated what could or could not be part of a ring so you were…
jammygit on HN
May copy other people's content without permission.
From 1 comment
Is it just me, or is this just an automated way to steal other people's content and put it on your blog without their permission? > ...fetch the latest 3 articles from among your…
masukomi on HN
Unclear use case compared to existing RSS readers.
From 2 comments
What's the use case for something like this ? Looks a bit like what any RSS reader would provide. Or maybe it's meant to publish links to other blogs on a separate site, which…
frenchman99 on HNWhat's the use case for something like this? Looks like it takes RSS feeds and makes a blogroll. I thought most blogging platforms had that function built-in. Certainly Blogger…
reaperducer on HN
Requests
Pipe feeds from an existing feed reader database into it.
From 1 comment
Very cool! Since I already have my feeds sitting locally in my feed reader's db, it'd be cool if I could just pipe that out to Openring somehow.
nathcd on HN
Make it a Jekyll plugin.
From 1 comment
This should be a Jekyll plugin as well. Maybe when I get time.
captn3m0 on HN
Make crawling and graphing the ring easier via output HTML.
From 1 comment
If this is widely adopted, it would be quite straightforward to crawl and graph a network of all the blogs in the ring. This would be really cool! Search sucks for finding good…
albertgoeswoof on HN
Questions
What is the use case compared to RSS readers?
From 1 comment
What's the use case for something like this ? Looks a bit like what any RSS reader would provide. Or maybe it's meant to publish links to other blogs on a separate site, which…
frenchman99 on HN
How does it solve curation and search?
From 1 comment
How does it solve curation & search? Edit: I'm asking because I suspect your answer is going to be "it doesn't/that's not the point/who cares?" But people who read blogs will…
flunhat on HN
Alternatives named
Tiny Tiny RSS
From 2 comments
I'm quite partial to TinyRSS, available at tt-rss.org.
dsr_ on HNI'm a lifetime subscriber to Feedly (https://feedly.com) which has behaved sanely since I joined and claims to have mobile apps but I'm not the target audience for reading blogs…
mdaniel on HN
Feedly
From 1 comment
I'm a lifetime subscriber to Feedly (https://feedly.com) which has behaved sanely since I joined and claims to have mobile apps but I'm not the target audience for reading blogs…
mdaniel on HN
Miniflux
From 1 comment
https://miniflux.app - Very minimalistic and written in Go with a hosted and self hosted option.
dewey on HN
FreshRSS
From 1 comment
Self hosted https://freshrss.org/ has been pleasing me for years now. No troubles at all, even when updating. Uses SQLite, which is awesome when migrating. Used…
unicornporn on HN
NewsBlur
From 1 comment
I had used Thunderbird's RSS reader for ages, but last year I needed to work on both machines concurrently, so went looking for an alternative and found newsblur -…
beagle3 on HN