Yep, you had “live bookmarks”; if you bookmarked a site that had an RSS feed, the feed items would show up as items in a submenu.
Browser-integrated RSS is one of the “desperate last bullet” to improve things in the web. However, I think nowadays we live in a world where most people have multiple devices, so IMHO besides browser-integrated OOB feed readers, we need those to have some synchronization capabilities. I started writing the idea here, but as I’ve been obsessing over this lately, I decided to write something.
Also I was going to comment about how the Gemini protocol has a fascinating take on feeds, but I also write that frequently, so I wrote another thing.
Live Bookmarks is the same thing they’ve (re)added here. Sadly it seems like syncing right now doesn’t work with Live Bookmarks via Firefox Sync, as it just syncs them over as empty folders. I’m curious if they’ll be able to fully implement sync on it in the coming releases.
That said, they’ve implemented a reader view on top of it, which I’m a fan of.
WebDAV is a standard storage interface like you want, but it’s pretty crufty and people don’t like using it. I’m pretty sure some Firefox extensions are able to sync their data or at least their settings through the Firefox Sync mechanism, but read/unread and starred article lists for a feed reader might be too much.
WebDAV is a standard storage interface like you want, but it’s pretty crufty and people don’t like using it.
Yes, but IIRC it delegates authentication to the web server, and I don’t think there really are any implementations to share specific folders to a specific application.
I’m pretty sure some Firefox extensions are able to sync their data or at least their settings through the Firefox Sync mechanism, but read/unread and starred article lists for a feed reader might be too much.
Heh, Firefox Sync is great. Except that even my tiny 27.4kb NoScript configuration can’t be synchronized over it. It actually works automatically for all extensions, by the way. It’s pretty neat, but it covers very few use cases and the stringent storage limitations make it even of narrower use.
And Firefox Sync is the perfect example where my proposal would help. Mozilla could opt not to provide a service, and just allow people to synchronize their data over whatever cloud storage they wanted. (They could even provide very limited cloud storage themselves.)
edit: rclone serve s3 would be an interesting chunk of a way to implement this. However, unfortunately rclone seems to be headed in a direction I’m not a huge fan of :(
If (hypothetical) you are living in the Darwin land, NetNewsWire is able to synchronise everything on top of iCloud, with E2EE. It’s also possible to use miniflux as the backend.
I actually use self-host Miniflux. I like their simple web app well enough to not need anything else.
And yeah, Apple-ecosystem apps that use iCloud as storage are the seed of my recent ideas about synchronization in apps. I won’t go Apple, but that mostly every Apple user has “guaranteed” remote storage because iCloud is a requirement is a very interesting thing. Unfortunately you don’t really get a choice, but I guess that with E2EE encryption it really doesn’t matter so much. I still wish there was a way for apps to use remote storage with open choices.
Yep, you had “live bookmarks”; if you bookmarked a site that had an RSS feed, the feed items would show up as items in a submenu.
Browser-integrated RSS is one of the “desperate last bullet” to improve things in the web. However, I think nowadays we live in a world where most people have multiple devices, so IMHO besides browser-integrated OOB feed readers, we need those to have some synchronization capabilities. I started writing the idea here, but as I’ve been obsessing over this lately, I decided to write something.
Also I was going to comment about how the Gemini protocol has a fascinating take on feeds, but I also write that frequently, so I wrote another thing.
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Live Bookmarks is the same thing they’ve (re)added here. Sadly it seems like syncing right now doesn’t work with Live Bookmarks via Firefox Sync, as it just syncs them over as empty folders. I’m curious if they’ll be able to fully implement sync on it in the coming releases.
That said, they’ve implemented a reader view on top of it, which I’m a fan of.
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WebDAV is a standard storage interface like you want, but it’s pretty crufty and people don’t like using it. I’m pretty sure some Firefox extensions are able to sync their data or at least their settings through the Firefox Sync mechanism, but read/unread and starred article lists for a feed reader might be too much.
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Yes, but IIRC it delegates authentication to the web server, and I don’t think there really are any implementations to share specific folders to a specific application.
Heh, Firefox Sync is great. Except that even my tiny 27.4kb NoScript configuration can’t be synchronized over it. It actually works automatically for all extensions, by the way. It’s pretty neat, but it covers very few use cases and the stringent storage limitations make it even of narrower use.
And Firefox Sync is the perfect example where my proposal would help. Mozilla could opt not to provide a service, and just allow people to synchronize their data over whatever cloud storage they wanted. (They could even provide very limited cloud storage themselves.)
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rclone serve s3would be an interesting chunk of a way to implement this. However, unfortunately rclone seems to be headed in a direction I’m not a huge fan of :(score 1 · canonical
Oh no, what is happening with rclone? Sorry, super off topic.
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If (hypothetical) you are living in the Darwin land, NetNewsWire is able to synchronise everything on top of iCloud, with E2EE. It’s also possible to use miniflux as the backend.
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I am not, but thanks :)
I actually use self-host Miniflux. I like their simple web app well enough to not need anything else.
And yeah, Apple-ecosystem apps that use iCloud as storage are the seed of my recent ideas about synchronization in apps. I won’t go Apple, but that mostly every Apple user has “guaranteed” remote storage because iCloud is a requirement is a very interesting thing. Unfortunately you don’t really get a choice, but I guess that with E2EE encryption it really doesn’t matter so much. I still wish there was a way for apps to use remote storage with open choices.
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