It's even worse than it appears..
Thursday December 18, 2025; 8:56 AM EST
Inoreader and dynamic OPML#
  • I have a free account at Inoreader. They sent an email asking me to upgrade, so I went to the site and was reminded that they support OPML Subscriptions, a simple idea, which I have been evangelizing for a long time. #
  • You can subscribe to an OPML subscription list. Exactly the same format we used for importing lists. This means I can use the same feed list in two readers. Or I could share my list with everyone who subscribes to my newsletter. I can update the list, and the flow of news to the subscribers changes too. #
  • I tried subscribing to my blogroll's OPML file in Inoreader. #
    • I gave it the long URL for my blogroll list, but it didn't take it. #
    • Took a while to find the short URL for the list #
    • Tried subscribing to it in Inoreader, got an error message. #
      • "We couldn't detect any feeds from lists.opml.org."#
    • As far as I can tell, it is a valid subscription list with feeds in it. #
  • Links#
    • Listening lists, as a feature for podcasts.#
    • This is where I was accumulating short URLs for subscription lists. Started it in Sept. The short URL for the blogroll. #
  • I started a thread on my blog GitHub repo, if the folks at Inoreader, or users of Inoreader, have time to work on this. #
  • Doesn't have to be now, but since we're probably the only ones supporting this protocol, it seems we ought to work this out. :-)#
  • And thanks! It's a good time for me to work on this stuff since we have a great engine for creating and managing these kinds of lists. #

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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! :-)