Superfeedr Blog

Today, we’re happy to introduce the first Superfeedr Jquery plugin. It’s simple piece of syntactic sugar that was aked by one of our customers but makes it really simple to integrate an RSS feed into a page! Its purpose is very simple: integrate a the content of any RSS or...  

This is yet another benefit from the introduction of our new frontend back in november: starting today, Superfeedr offers authentication tokens. Up until now, you had to use your main Superfeedr login and password to perform API calls. This was simple but could also expose you to a security risk...  

We have recently updated our XMPP servers and we’re now using Prosody.im. It does not change much for our existing users. There should be no interruption of service as the previous XMPP servers will be kept running for as long as there clients connected to them. All notifications are sent...  

Webhooks provide a very elegant solution to the polling problem, and many popular APIs such as Github, Mailchimp, Instagram or even Shopify provide such hooks. However, we will see that they also have a bunch of limitations which are elegantly solved by PubSubHubbub and we want to encourage people with...  

Releasing our new API endpoint last month has already enabled us to release the oldest feature request: subscribing and retrieving feeds in one single call. Today, we’re introducing another long time requested feature: the ability to list PubSubHubbub subscriptions. Listing subscriptions per endpoint It’s considered good practice when using PubSubHubbub...  

Today is thanksgiving in the USA. It’s a holliday in where you celebrate others and thank them for the help they provided. Of course, we want to thank everyone in our community: our customers, developers, partners and investors. It’s a pleasure to be working with you and we hope to...  

Do you know what has been the oldest Superfeedr feature request? It’s the ability to subscribe and retrieve a feed in one single call. Basically, up until now, when your app needed the content of a feed from Superfeedr, you first had to subscribe to the feed and then wait...  

We’ve been a bit silent in the past couple months here at Superfeedr.It’s because we’ve been working on a complete rewrite of our PubSubHubbub endpoint. Before Up until now, our PubSubHubbub endpoint was part of our main frontend Rails app. 4 years ago, Rails was still the most advanced framework...  

This article has been cross posted to other platforms, including Svbtle. Here is a new episode of my quest to understand and improve the follow button pattern on the web. Of course, I have found a lot of new follow buttons in this past month. Unfortunately, they all show the...  

It’s fascinating to see patterns appear on the web, and to see how quickly they propagate. You probably remember the clickable-top-left logo (link to the home), the navigation footer with deep links, the tag clouds (these seem to have declined quickly though), or, the most recent #hashtags. I’m betting big...