[HN Gopher] Show HN: AirSS is a web-based feed reader that put y... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: AirSS is a web-based feed reader that put your privacy first Author : derekzhouzhen Score : 28 points Date : 2021-10-02 18:07 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (airss.roastidio.us) (TXT) w3m dump (airss.roastidio.us) | derekzhouzhen wrote: | For anyone that tried this and failed miserably: | | * Most feeds out there cannot load as they are because of CORS.* | | In my github page: https://github.com/derek-zhou/airss I listed | several options. Please choose yourself; I can't choose for you. | tyingq wrote: | You could probably add cloudflare workers as an option. There's | an example CORS friendly proxy here: | https://github.com/Zibri/cloudflare-cors-anywhere | | Guessing normal use would fit in their free plan. | mikojan wrote: | As a German, this name evokes feelings of nostalgia and tense | anticipation | derekzhouzhen wrote: | Please enlighten me. I am at a disadvantage here. | mynegation wrote: | SS. Paramilitary units of Nazi Germany known for their | brutality, oppression, and crimes against humanity. AirSS is | of course play on RSS, but I also could immediately see how | it can be read as Air SS. | derekzhouzhen wrote: | Oh my. | olah_1 wrote: | So does this automatically fetch every feed URL at intervals in | the background as long as you have the browser open? | | Pretty simple solution for getting updates if so. No need to | overcomplicate it with a dedicated server. | derekzhouzhen wrote: | Right now there is a one hour idle timeout, then it will | shutdown and close the indexedDB. The reason is it is quite | possible to have too many tabs lying around and I am not | comfortable to have many tabs writing the same indexedDB. | | Periodic polling will not work on mobile anyhow. It is better | just to refresh the tab by hand. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-10-02 23:00 UTC)