Hacker News Reader

Oh thats a good idea never though of that. It's got a really simple json backend api where you can request users and stuff, and feeds will follow shortly, it's all built just need documentation.

https://endpoint.hey.cafe/api/conversation_info?query=utdtls...

View on HN

I didn't check if you implemented it but making sure Atom is in the mix for good support in RSS readers would be a fantastic add.

I am adding RSS feeds shortly it's in my todo, I can already read them and will provide RSS and JSON outputs for feeds and user info and more.

Pro tip: use RSS for podcasts because almost nothing in that space supports Atom, but shun RSS and use Atom in all other cases, because it’s the strictly superior format (RSS lacks a couple of features, uses terrible date formats, and is encoding-ambiguous in a few places like title and body that causes clients to guess whether you’re writing plain text or HTML, and occasionally guess wrong) and everything supports both.

The nice thing is I can add many formats, just rewrite the JSON in a version thats better for the use case.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com