spew

Hmm, I'm not familiar with web-ext. I'm not sure it existed 10 years ago, back when Firefox went through their Quantum transition. Looks like web-ext came out in 2016: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/04/29/webextensions-in-.... My extension is at https://github.com/akkartik/spew, and it looks like there might have been a period of a year when I wasn't able to use it. When software auto-updates and stops working, we consider that breakage. When software auto-updates and code I wrote stops working, we say "oh, it affects just 0.01% of users." For me, the inescapable lesson is to not write code for extension eco-systems, because they're all too immature for serious use. At least as of the year 2015.

That's one question, sure, but there's nothing fundamental about it. Here's a second question: should I have to go to the frontpage of a website to find out what's new on it, or get notifications automatically when there's something new? Here's a completely unprocessed feedreader that I built as a Firefox extension until #$%# Mozilla killed it: https://github.com/akkartik/spew. It answered your question with, "why yes, read each article precisely as it was intended to be read on its own website," but still used RSS feeds for push notifications. Best of both worlds. --- Here's a third question: should I prioritize articles based on how their website shows them to me, based on when they're posted, or by some other prioritization? This may be what stunted RSS: people chose with their feet to prioritize socially (reading what their friends sh

As a google employee, I wouldn't use Reader now even if it magically came back. Fool me once, etc., etc. In fact, I wouldn't use any third-party service. I have the skills, and readers are easy to build; there's just no reason to outsource this particular product. (Here's what I've been using for the past year: http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN. Sources: https://github.com/akkartik/spew)

My own invention, because I wanted to live in my browser tabs and not learn a new UI: http://github.com/akkartik/spew. Unfortunately I haven't found the fortitude to deal with mozilla's review process.

My eccentric self-hosting no-server-needed homebrew open-source solution since google reader died: http://github.com/akkartik/spew. Since I suck at UI, it has none. Instead it just leverages firefox UI for everything.