| ▲ | dchuk 2 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
I built a site that's similar in concept to Hacker News, but is entirely fed by RSS feed content, that is then bullet-pointed summarized on the article page: https://engineered.at/ But I also extract topics automatically from the content too with LLMs, to allow for dynamic topic pages that users can separately subscribe to to tune their feeds. Haven't promoted it much, but it's pretty amazing what you can do for a couple bucks a month. And my main thesis with this site is that by locking the content to only rss feeds of known blogs, you dramatically reduce the spam submission risk (basically eliminate it). Doesn't handle the spam comment side of things, but that's a different problem. EDIT: I also open sourced a Rails engine I made to power this site if anyone is interested: https://github.com/dchuk/source_monitor | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | devinpower 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
This looks great, I've wanted something like this for a while. Finding how to click through to the actual item in the feed was a high point of friction for me. I went to a topic and then clicked on the header of something I was interested in expecting to be brought to the blog post directly. Needing to click on that same title again to be brought to the post was unintuitive to me, I searched around the page, went back and forth a few times and eventually figured it out. As a user I would love to be able to click directly through to the article FROM the topic feed. I would expect that the comments is a URL to the page that the header currently brings me to. This would match my expectations from using sites like reddit/HN. A one or two liner summary directly on the topics feed would be really great I think. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Joe_Cool 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Getting If I set my UA to "FUCKIT" I can use the site perfectly fine. Why is there a User Agent Filter that disables the whole website? This should be maybe a warning, not a complete block. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | solid_fuel 13 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
As a sysadmin hosting a few blogs, do you mind sharing what IP ranges you crawl from? Or what agent your requests use? Thank you. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | shaunpud 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
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