I think it would be really, genuinely cool if we had a network of RSS feeds from Cohost users so we can keep Posting. It wouldn't be super difficult to implement, but it does require some level of technical knowledge, unless someone is just mirroring a blog to RSS, which isn't quite the same thing, and for a lot of people, Posting is when they push the button and make the Funny Jokes. So, here are a few proposals:
- A repo of RSS feeds. This is the simple part. Just have a wiki page or a GitHub repo or something that just contains links to everyone's RSS, and anyone with an RSS reader can subscribe to whomever they like. This would encompass everything technically proficient users would need... which would still leave out a LOT of Chosters.
- A way to convert Markdown into HTML/XML. This shouldn't be too difficult, because prechoster already exists! It hopefully wouldn't be too difficult to fork prechoster such that it can make an RSS
<item>entry out of a chost. EDIT: I found Showdownjs, a JS library, both client- and server-side, for converting markdown to HTML. - A simple way to create/host an RSS feed. This is the tricky one, and a place where I have the least experience. I know it's possible to auto-generate an RSS XML file, but I've never done it, and I don't know if there's a tool specifically to create one from scratch without having to code it, let alone a tool to easily append new entries once the file is made. I'm sure it exists, but I'm not sure where or how to find it. As for hosting... I mean, it's not hard to just, like, host a file on Neocities or Dropbox or something, but I dunno how easy it is to update a file on Google Drive or Dropbox.
So... yeah. Thoughts?
