Superfeedr Blog

We all know that RSS and openness are key to the web’s resilience and independence, yet the RSS ecosystem is still shrinking. It’s because of us, players of that ecosystem: we tend to try growing our slice of the pie, at the expense of other players rather than growing the...  

SubToMe aims at being your subscription app so that you can use any reader app for the content you care about. We are also (pretty much like in all of the code we release) committed to open-ness. As part of this, we’re releasing today a SubToMe update with OPML support....  

It was long overdue but we’re finally introducing a completely refactored documentation. Up until now, the documentation was part of our main site. This was a bad choice for several reasons: updating the docs means we’d have to deploy the whole frontend site taking pull requests was not easy/doable if...  

With Google Reader gone and the recent privacy scandals, millions of faithful readers are now looking for alternatives to follow content. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of publishers are anxious about gaining subscribers - and control over the subscriptions which have been delegated to Twitter, Facebook or Google+. Luckily, dozens of...  

SubToMe is growing like a weed. It’s now triggering more than 500 new subscriptions daily on the websites that display it. As it’s getting more popular, we’re trying hard to make it always better. For those not following the commits on github, here is a list of the recent changes:...  

Now that PubSubHubbub evolved toward 0.4, and that what used to be the most popular reader are gone, it’s time to check the state of PubSubHubbub and see which of the new readers support it. We’ve picked the most popular web based readers from this list and we tested PubSubHubbub...  

Today is Independence Day in the US: happy 4th of July. There will be fireworks and BBQs in the offline world, but let’s also take a couple seconds to think about what independent means on the web. It’s now fairly obvious that the giant silos that we use have a...  

It’s been brewing for almost 2 years now, but it’s finally here. Superfeedr now supports the version 0.4 of the PubSubHubbub spec. We’re also proud to say that Superfeedr has taken the lead on the PubSubHubbub spec. We now also offer a complete compliance test suite for anyone who wants...  

The SubToMe button we launched a couple weeks is now getting a significant traction and has been added to thousands of blogs and sites! This makes us very proud! Many readers now also support direct registration which makes them extremely convenient to use when susbcribing on the fly! AngularJS SubToMe...  

When Google announced it was shutting down Reader on July 1st, we took a couple days to announce that we will be offering a replacement for its API as well as back up as much of the data that we can. Finding the right tool to store all this data...