Scripting News: FeedLand and Bluesky feeds

Saturday December 23, 2023; 9:19 AM EST

We can now subscribe to Bluesky feeds in FeedLand --#

In the Subscribe sub-menu, choose To one feed.#
Enter the URL of a Bluesky profile page. For example, here's a link to Neil Gaiman's profile. #
Click OK.#

When this feature came out yesterday it didn't work with FeedLand because we were looking for full URLs pointing to a feed in their feed discovery link and they provided a relative URL.#
The fix was in the feedHunter package, it now looks for relative URLs and makes them full before trying to find the feed. #
I think I understand why they used a relative URL, they're getting ready to federate and it's probably simpler for them to just specify a relative URL.#
On the other hand, I think this is going to be a problem -- in the world of feeds, software usually expects full URLs. #
PS: This is what a Bluesky feed looks like in FeedLand on Day 1.#

Last update: Saturday December 23, 2023; 8:09 PM EST.

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