Show HN: AirSS is a web-based feed reader that put your privacy first

https://airss.roastidio.us/

by derekzhouzhen • 5 years ago

48 19 5 years ago

airss.roastidio.us

For anyone that tried this and failed miserably:

* Most feeds out there cannot load as they are because of CORS.*

In my github page: https://github.com/derek-zhou/airss I listed several options. Please choose yourself; I can't choose for you.

tyingq• 5 years ago

You could probably add cloudflare workers as an option. There's an example CORS friendly proxy here: https://github.com/Zibri/cloudflare-cors-anywhere

Guessing normal use would fit in their free plan.

derekzhouzhen8• 5 years ago

Thanks. I've already provided a proxy option.

olah_1• 5 years ago

So does this automatically fetch every feed URL at intervals in the background as long as you have the browser open?

Pretty simple solution for getting updates if so. No need to overcomplicate it with a dedicated server.

derekzhouzhen8• 5 years ago

Right now there is a one hour idle timeout, then it will shutdown and close the indexedDB. The reason is it is quite possible to have too many tabs lying around and I am not comfortable to have many tabs writing the same indexedDB.

Periodic polling will not work on mobile anyhow. It is better just to refresh the tab by hand.

mikojan• 5 years ago

As a German, this name evokes feelings of nostalgia and tense anticipation

derekzhouzhen8• 5 years ago

Please enlighten me. I am at a disadvantage here.

mynegation2• 5 years ago

SS. Paramilitary units of Nazi Germany known for their brutality, oppression, and crimes against humanity. AirSS is of course play on RSS, but I also could immediately see how it can be read as Air SS.

gjvnq• 5 years ago

Not even German and I too imeaditely thought that the name was a bad idea.

brenelson• 5 years ago

This looks interesting; I'm interested in the upcoming updates. I do hope that it will be user-friend for people that are not coming from technical backgrounds.

derekzhouzhen8• 5 years ago

Care to elaborate more? I thought it is user friendly enough.

Show HN: AirSS is a web-based feed reader that put your privacy first

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