Would it be possible to add a free for The Guardian? In the current political climate we need independent journalism and they recent quit Twitter, so it is time to drag them over to the Fediverse. Thanks.
Would it be possible to add a free for The Guardian? In the current political climate we need independent journalism and they recent quit Twitter, so it is time to drag them over to the Fediverse. Thanks.
Brilliant thanks. 👍
Do you know if there’s a feed that’s only top stories? I’m using https://www.theguardian.com/uk/rss but that one seems to spam a constant flood of posts, which I’ve been trying to avoid.
So, according to this, if you add “rss” to any index page you get a feed.
So clicking “news” and doing that gets me:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/rss
World news:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss
I don’t know if you can combine two but that would trim things down.
Okay, I looked at how it’s set up. I think the right thing would be to set it up so there’s one community for each main section: World, US news, sport, tech, and so on.
The issue is that there are a huge number of them. That’s pretty common, but usually there’s a “top stories” feed that I can do. I could make a bunch of new communities, one per section, but I’m a little reluctant to just make huge amounts of spam if I’m not sure how much human attention they’re going to get.
Which sections would you want? Maybe I could do like I did for Ars Technica, and make a few communities for some of the mainly useful ones. I’m still not sure how to handle it, to be honest. It would be nice if I could set up a nicer UI so that people could just pick out exactly what they wanted, without creating spam or ghost-town communities for other people.
“Top stories” did the trick:
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/mainsection/topstories/rss
That’s excellent! Okay, I updated the one community to be only that one.
Like I said, I’m open to adding other ones or multiple communities, I’m just not sure where to strike the balance that won’t wind up creating tons of communities that don’t see a lot of use.
That seems good for now. If they want more they can join the Fediverse!