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Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader

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294 points zerojames | 8 comments | 20 Dec 24 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.402s | source | bottom

Earlier this year, I made a web reader that only showed a list of post titles, author domains, and links. The reader only updated once per day, so I wouldn't feel compelled to keep checking for new posts.

I have been using the tool, which I called Artemis, for several months. Every morning, I looked forward to my "morning paper" of blogs I love reading.

There are no notifications, read vs. unread states, counts of posts, etc. Only the last seven days of posts are available. The colour scheme is changeable. Dark mode is supported. All popular feed formats are supported.

There is no reading interface to read blog posts; rather, the links take you to the authors' websites. Many of my favourite bloggers put a lot of effort into the design of their blogs and like to change things up; I wanted an experience that embraced that.

The reader is now available for anyone to use (with invite code "hn").

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mmahemoff ◴[20 Dec 24 15:43 UTC] No.42472057[source]▶
What's a good place to discover high-quality RSS feeds these days?
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1. freetonik ◴[20 Dec 24 16:01 UTC] No.42472217[source]▶
I'm curating a collection here https://minifeed.net/blogs/
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2. dqv ◴[20 Dec 24 16:17 UTC] No.42472364[source]▶
Aw dang, looks like I can't subscribe to it in my feed reader. Still, this is a great collection. Thanks for sharing
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3. freetonik ◴[20 Dec 24 16:26 UTC] No.42472435[source]▶
Do you mean to subscribe to the whole collection, one RSS feed for all the blogs in my list? I mean, I guess I can build that feature, but it's gonna be quite a firehose.
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4. onli ◴[20 Dec 24 16:56 UTC] No.42472686{3}[source]▶
Not sure what parent meant, but the right way should be an opml file with the feeds, which the feed reader then can import. But maybe you are offering that already?
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5. freetonik ◴[20 Dec 24 17:00 UTC] No.42472722{4}[source]▶
Ah, sorry, that makes perfect sense. Not yet, but I plan to implement this soon.
6. freetonik ◴[20 Dec 24 17:22 UTC] No.42472943{4}[source]▶
Here, I quickly put together an OPML generator: https://minifeed.net/blogs/opml.xml
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7. dqv ◴[20 Dec 24 19:32 UTC] No.42474154{5}[source]▶
Whoa, you did not have to do that! Thank you so much :)
8. drdec ◴[21 Dec 24 15:03 UTC] No.42480077{3}[source]▶
My impression was that they wanted to be notified of new blogs via RSS, not the content of the blogs.

But I could be wrong