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Thanks for making Fraidycat and helping take the web back to the good old RSS days! I especially like the Dire Straits Money for Nothing video-like logo.

I have a question:

Is it possible to make the Fraidycat endpoint on your own server instead of having the browser extension take you to https://fraidyc.at/s/? Or am I totally confused?

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It's not possible at the moment. I used to serve the pages directly from the extension - however, this causes the feed fetcher and the web page to run in the same thread - so the UI gets sluggish.

I moved the web page into a 'content script' - meaning injecting it into a normal web page - and that solved the problem.

Fraidycat 2 will allow 'localhost' access. (Later this year.)

Understood, and thank you!

Oh Simon Griffee - ofc. Love your stuff.

Everyone check out https://www.simongriffee.com/ - my fave is the photo section. Your blog is great as well.

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