Scripting News: Feeds for Threads

Monday August 19, 2024; 8:56 AM EDT

I was kvelling the other day about rss.app and how they have feeds for Threads accounts. They do. But there are two caveats.#

It costs $9.99 per month for 15 feeds. Could be a bit expensive for some people's budgets.#
The second concern is more serious. It doesn't handle titleless items properly. It repeats the contents of the tweet in the title and description of the feeds it generates. An example. This is not right, and it's not the way Mastodon and Bluesky do it. There's nothing wrong with items that have no titles. When an item has no title you do the common sense thing -- omit the title. I'm happy to help with this. I wrote the RSS 2.0 spec, and am something of an authority on this. It's important to get this right.#

Last update: Monday August 19, 2024; 9:31 PM EDT.

You know those obnoxious sites that pop up dialogs when they think you're about to leave, asking you to subscribe to their email newsletter? Well that won't do for Scripting News readers who are a discerning lot, very loyal, but that wouldn't last long if I did rude stuff like that. So here I am at the bottom of the page quietly encouraging you to sign up for the nightly email. It's got everything from the previous day on Scripting, plus the contents of the linkblog and who knows what else we'll get in there. People really love it. I wish I had done it sooner. And every email has an unsub link so if you want to get out, you can, easily -- no questions asked, and no follow-ups. Go ahead and do it, you won't be sorry! :-)