https://github.com/gka/newsriver

WORK IN PROGRESS - NOT READY A sane implementation for Dave Winer's "River of News" concept
https://github.com/gka/newsriver

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WORK IN PROGRESS - NOT READY A sane implementation for Dave Winer's "River of News" concept

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gka/newsriver
• Owner: gka
• Created: 2018-04-09T07:28:45.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-05-23T21:34:49.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-14T04:50:37.360Z (3 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 550 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# newsriver

### What is a "River of News" or "Newsriver"?

Here's what [Dave Winer wrote about this](http://scripting.com/2014/06/02/whatIsARiverOfNewsAggregator.html):

> _River of News_ is a kind of RSS aggregator.

>

> Items are presented in reverse-chronologic order.

>

> Each item has a headline, short description, a link to the story, links to the website and feed it came from, a link to its enclosure if it has one, when it was published, when it appeared in the river.

### How is this different from other RSS readers?

* No full text of articles

* No feature images

* No unread counts: Newsrivers are meant to be used like a Twitter feed. No hard feelings if you miss something.

### Why not use Dave's [reader implementation](https://github.com/scripting/reader)?

I tried! But it is really hard to use. Large part of the frontend is served from obscure hard-coded websites such as fargo.io which don't even bother to support HTTPS. I wanted to have the entire frontend being part of the app. As of now, the app is still using the [davereader](https://www.npmjs.com/package/davereader) package to aggregate the RSS feeds, but I am planning to re-implement that part as well.

### To do

* get rid of `davereader` dependency

* swipe left and right should switch feeds

* make header nav float smartly with the content (but only appear on scroll-up)

* better documentation

* example implementation