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Hey folks, I'm the developer working on Blogs Are Back. WakaTime has me clocked in at over 900 hours on this project so far... If CORS weren't an issue, it cou

Hey folks, I'm the developer working on Blogs Are Back. WakaTime has me clocked in at over 900 hours on this project so far... If CORS weren't an issue, it could've been done in 1/10th of that time. But if that were the case, there would've already been tons of web-based RSS readers available. Anyway, the goal of this project is to help foster interest in indie blogs and help a bit with discovery. Feel free to submit your blog if you'd like! If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

chrismorgan 7mo ago
> style="opacity:0;transform:translateY(20px)" In my opinion, that’s a bigger problem than CORS. Proxyless web feed reader is a lost cause, you’re wasting your time because only a small minority are ever going to support it. But that opacity and transition nonsense gratuitously slows down page loading for everyone, and hides content completely for those that aren’t running JS. (What I would also like to know is: how come this is the third time I’ve seen exactly this—each block of content having this exact style attribute—in the past month, when I don’t remember encountering exactly it before?)
- travisvn 7mo ago
  The entire web app is JS based. It's a requirement I'm ok with. And to answer your question, you're seeing that kind of styling so frequently because it's likely part of Framer Motion, an extremely popular animation library https://www.npmjs.com/package/framer-motion https://www.npmjs.com/package/framer-motion https://www.npmjs.com/package/motion https://www.npmjs.com/package/motion
  - trick-or-treat 7mo ago
    I think cooler heads will agree that a middle ground where the content is available on the initial request is best. But what do I know /s
  - Orygin 7mo ago
    Would also be great if the animations respected the `prefers-reduced-motion` setting, instead of forcing down animations that reduces accessibility.
  - mzajc 7mo ago
    Is the website machine generated? Besides the hard-dependency on JavaScript, this also causes the exact same problem I've seen on another[1] machine generated site: https://postimg.cc/TyMBfVZ6 https://postimg.cc/TyMBfVZ6, https://postimg.cc/n9j1X5Dk https://postimg.cc/n9j1X5Dk. This happens randomly on refresh on Firefox 148.0-1. Is the fade effect really worth having parts of your site disappear at random? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675669
- elliotbnvl 7mo ago
  This is something Opus 4.6 likes to generate a LOT for some reason.
- pianom4n 7mo ago
  Seriously. This page terrible with multiple annoying rendering delays, and I'm supposed to care about helping their RSS feeds load faster?
rglullis 7mo ago
Hey, this is very interesting! As someone working on an extension that works as an ActivityPub client, I don't have to deal with CORS issues so much (most servers configure CORS properly, and the extension can bypass CORS issues anyway) but I just spent a good chunk of my weekend working on a proxy that could deal with Mastodon's "authorized fetch". So, basically, any URI that I need to resolve goes tries first to fetch directly and it falls back to making the request through the proxy if I get any type of authentication error.
m_sahaf 7mo ago
How can someone add platforms to the guide? I want to add Caddy
Klonoar 7mo ago
You need to put a screenshot of the app on your page.
freetonik 7mo ago
Hey! Blogs Are Back is cool! Nice to see more modern RSS readers, and also thematic blog collections. If you seek more curated blogs to share with your users, check out my project https://minifeed.net/ https://minifeed.net/
moebrowne 7mo ago
Blog submission form: https://www.blogsareback.com/submit https://www.blogsareback.com/submit

chrismorgan 7mo ago

> style="opacity:0;transform:translateY(20px)" In my opinion, that’s a bigger problem than CORS. Proxyless web feed reader is a lost cause, you’re wasting your time because only a small minority are ever going to support it. But that opacity and transition nonsense gratuitously slows down page loading for everyone, and hides content completely for those that aren’t running JS. (What I would also like to know is: how come this is the third time I’ve seen exactly this—each block of content having this exact style attribute—in the past month, when I don’t remember encountering exactly it before?)

travisvn 7mo ago
The entire web app is JS based. It's a requirement I'm ok with. And to answer your question, you're seeing that kind of styling so frequently because it's likely part of Framer Motion, an extremely popular animation library https://www.npmjs.com/package/framer-motion https://www.npmjs.com/package/framer-motion https://www.npmjs.com/package/motion https://www.npmjs.com/package/motion
- trick-or-treat 7mo ago
  I think cooler heads will agree that a middle ground where the content is available on the initial request is best. But what do I know /s
- Orygin 7mo ago
  Would also be great if the animations respected the `prefers-reduced-motion` setting, instead of forcing down animations that reduces accessibility.
- mzajc 7mo ago
  Is the website machine generated? Besides the hard-dependency on JavaScript, this also causes the exact same problem I've seen on another[1] machine generated site: https://postimg.cc/TyMBfVZ6 https://postimg.cc/TyMBfVZ6, https://postimg.cc/n9j1X5Dk https://postimg.cc/n9j1X5Dk. This happens randomly on refresh on Firefox 148.0-1. Is the fade effect really worth having parts of your site disappear at random? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675669
elliotbnvl 7mo ago
This is something Opus 4.6 likes to generate a LOT for some reason.
pianom4n 7mo ago
Seriously. This page terrible with multiple annoying rendering delays, and I'm supposed to care about helping their RSS feeds load faster?

rglullis 7mo ago

Hey, this is very interesting! As someone working on an extension that works as an ActivityPub client, I don't have to deal with CORS issues so much (most servers configure CORS properly, and the extension can bypass CORS issues anyway) but I just spent a good chunk of my weekend working on a proxy that could deal with Mastodon's "authorized fetch". So, basically, any URI that I need to resolve goes tries first to fetch directly and it falls back to making the request through the proxy if I get any type of authentication error.

m_sahaf 7mo ago

How can someone add platforms to the guide? I want to add Caddy

Klonoar 7mo ago

You need to put a screenshot of the app on your page.

freetonik 7mo ago

Hey! Blogs Are Back is cool! Nice to see more modern RSS readers, and also thematic blog collections. If you seek more curated blogs to share with your users, check out my project https://minifeed.net/ https://minifeed.net/

moebrowne 7mo ago

Blog submission form: https://www.blogsareback.com/submit https://www.blogsareback.com/submit