That is great. I didn't know I needed this.

After browsing for a few minutes I found that it really needs to have some kind of filter mechanism. For example, on old.reddit.com each post has its individual feed, while on blogspot you have both RSS and Atom feed.

It's incredible. I don't know the guy and I'm not being paid to say this, but I really think Blog Quest is a stroke of genius.

The article totally buries the lead, so for anyone who misses it: this is a browser extension which simply keeps track of a list of the RSS feeds of websites you've browsed, so that later you can subscribe to them if you want to. It was forked from an extension which does the same for Mastodon.

It solves a very simple problem, which is that when I'm browsing a website I'm usually not thinking about subscribing to it, but later on when I'm reading my feeds, I wish I could add some more.

Blog Quest does what Mozilla was supposed to do with their hundreds of millions of dollars. From the moment that they declared their mission was to promote the open Web and negotiated an annual nine figure check out of Google. This is where the money should have gone: easy UX for people to subscribe to websites through an open standard, laying the groundwork for a free social graph on top of it one day. If they had done it at the right time they might have changed the course of history (again?).

Sadly they didn't. For 15 years they gradually buried RSS and then one day some random dude just throws a browser extension out there better than anything they ever did in the space. Extension of the year. Massive kudos to this guy.

Author of Blog Quest here, good point, I'll track that as a feature request. I'm open to ideas on how the filtering should work. I could roll-up feeds for each domain (hello public suffix list), but I don't think that works well for home-dir style hosting (example.com/username). Maybe the user can set a policy to filter out or roll-up certain domains?

Deduplicating RSS and Atom makes a lot of sense too.

Thanks for trying it out!

My experience to a T.

The "calm tech" concept works really well with the fediverse identities because it's such a niche concept that at the end of a day of browsing you'll get a handful of entries, but for something as ubiquitous as RSS you get a ton of useless feeds that are just. But I really, really like the basic idea, I'll see if I can apply it to the things I'm building. :)

Yeah after some refinement, this seems like a really cool tool. Needs to work on Firefox for Android :)