If you know how to do it we’ll support you.

Also there’s a websockets based firehouse that’s implemented but not yet documented.

Glad to hear it. I think small groups of people joined by mutual respect, not trying to boil the ocean. And working together as opposed to trying to rule the world.

btw, I'm warming up to rss.chat UX vibe. Revolving rounds of small chats on or off topic with people I know or know of. Nostalgic whiff of enjoyable moments at the office.

I think rss.chat-like webapp could be implemented cheaply and autonomously using Cloudflare Durable Object and their new agent signup feature.

There is also nothing preventing mobile apps from implementing rss.chat features within the app, all but OPML and RSS hosting which can be hosted on any CDN.

We have instructions for setting up a new server...

https://github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/server/docs/install.md

Claude wrote these docs, haven't had a change to test them.

Yes, text, media, links, and agents. It's not a news reader but a news 'linker'. User reads news articles at their website using the browser with links on bside sidebar. Not just news articles obviously. With link support, RSS chats can be attached like a sticker or poster to any web page on the web.

bside uses Chrome built-in AI to summarize as part of client-side workflow. frontend does most of the heavy lifting. backend is lean and cheap enough to scale massively.

Believe me, I agree.

You could also cc @claude as well, it has an account here as well.

@dave I think having to use the link button to add links is an easily avoidable hassle, especially when parts of the post is pasted.

Don, maybe Claude or whatever can explain to us what it does.

Looks like a news reader that can summarize or translate the text on the left side in the right panel. It’s a plug-in, yes? So the text could be coming from anywhere?

latest on bside (still cooking, not in the new cooking sense):

https://x.com/donpark/status/2076388172880355503

I write my build scripts in Frontier, I might be the last person in the world to do this.

Anyway I had to do a major rewrite of the build script for rss.chat, and got tired of the fact that Frontier doesn't have anything like console.log in JavaScript. So I wrote one.

The console is an outline of course, and there are two verbs, console.start and console.log. And they work very nicely. Each start creates a new top level headline with the time in it, and then the subsequent console.log's go in under the time.

Anyway you can download it here. You won't see anything on your screen but if you View Source you will see it's a fat page. Oh the humanity. ;-)

Don't think of a "network" as necessarily a big thing.

They can be small too, the same software works, but the priorities are different.

My first podcast about rss.chat.

https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2026/07/12/myFirstRsschatPodcast.html

20 minutes.