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Vore: A minimal, no-bullshit web-based RSS/atom feed reader

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Vore: A new RSS feed reader - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35941533 - May 2023 (125 comments)

The comments in this thread are amazing, especially with the HN guideline of, "Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

Not everything that someone writes or builds adjacent to technology that's provided for free has to be useful in professional contexts.

If the name is the only thing that you can focus on, try to have some fun with it.

You certainly don't have to use Vore, but if you do decide to use it AND you enjoy puns and other wordplay, I believe you're also obligated by circumstance to consume the Reader's Digest RSS feeds [0] too.

[0] https://www.rd.com/rss-feeds/

People are saying you should change the name; I disagree. Its important to expose developers to weird animated fetishes, lest life become too sedate.

Name aside (feeds, get it?), I think the idea is cool. Your feed becomes a publicly accessible page you can share with anyone or access without having to log in.

There are just two features I would need to use this as a serious feed reader, though:

1. Autodetection of RSS feeds on pages. Some websites, such as YouTube, have feeds with cryptic URLs, so it's annoying to maintain a list of those links. I instead keep a list of YouTube account URLs and let the reader find the corresponding RSS link when I paste it in.

2. Subcategories. With Vore, you would have to create a new account for each collection of feeds in order to separate them.

This is an absolutely perfect name for an RSS feed reader. Not my thing (the service is!) but perfect naming. The devs have a good sense of humor.

Change the name. Anyone who searches it looking for your RSS reader is going to hate you.

Don’t search it (or make sure you have some kind of filtering on).

"Grr this arsehole giving me free stuff but with a funny name"

Yes, because it’s a “funny” name associated with some real “funny” stuff you can find online.

I'm sure you'll be refunded in full.

Why on earth would you name a project that?

This is a great name. Only people with no vision will criticize it.

i like the name. more modesty in this thread than i would have imagined - the creator isn't planning to monetize so is it really that big of a deal ?

I use RSS. I want to like RSS, but most sites want the eyes/clicks, so RSS isn't nearly as useful and pleasant as it used to me.

So the only feeds that go in my RSS reader are those that let me read at least half the article to decide if I want to continue. Others I like to visit often end up in a feeds bookmark folder.

Scant few, like itsfoss.com let you read the entire article/post anymore.

I don't see ads anyway. It'd be nice if they just added a short "please consider supporting..." or something to the feed. What really torques me is when I have a subscription but the feed still only gives me the first paragraph.

Furry devs with no chill as always.

It's amazing how many people feel that technology stuff should be professionally useful to them, even if it's a passion project provided at no cost.

It is professionally useful if you are prepared to have a few awkward conversations.

It also helps if you aren't working with totally humourless people.

I work in cryptography. If I wasn't prepared to have a few awkward conversations with developers, I would be in real trouble.

Hard pass. The name is funny, but an RSS reader that doesn't run on my own hardware is destined to, at best, close down, and at worst, become a cesspit of ads.

It is opensource, so you can run on your hardware. Here the link: https://git.j3s.sh/vore

Reminds me of an NPM package named in such a way that I can never propose it during a meeting / standup:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/clit

I would never even open a project's site with this name

That name is certainly a choice..! Not something I would normally associate with minimalism and certainly not a website I'm going to open at work but hey

Looks like a nice rss reader but the name vore is an interesting choice given the words most common meaning

The most common meaning being to eat or consume?

In an... isolated context, considering the purpose is to consume feeds, "vore" could have felt appropriate, especially if cursory research was limited to the dictionary...

There's not really a way to put this nicely, but vore is a terrible name. If you don't know, it's a surprisingly popular fetish category and not something I would ever want to type into a search engine.

I’m so sorry that you’re also burdened with this knowledge.

They really should change the name.

That was the first thing I thought when I read the title, and is the reason I did not click the link. I had the misfortune of being exposed to images of this sort by someone back in school and I'm not exactly desirous of experiencing that again.

I bet most people who don't frequent tumblr/reddit et al don't have the slightest idea of what "vore" is. The internet is pretty large, and humans are pretty clueless on average.

People barely know what an address bar is for these days. It's certain a large amount is going to google for it, and then find out.

It's fair to be clueless, but not even googling a name before deciding to use it for your project is foolish.

Oh they googled it alright.

There is _no way_ this is not deliberate.

They may have no idea, but if they go searching that they may find out if they’re unlucky.

Until they search for "Vore feeder" and arrive at very unexpected results. The welcome of those results may vary from person to person, though.

You've convinced me that's actually a good name

I'm grateful someone said this for me.

What if they know / it's on purpose?

They totally know. It's an application for consuming feeds called vore.

edit: https://j3s.sh/thought/vore-a-new-rss-feed-reader.html

> since vore consumes feeds, i thought the name was perfect!! i can't resist controversial names apparently :3

Well. Somehow (or for some reason), GIMP managed to get away with it.

Though, the next crudest software name which comes to mind is "Git".

I would not be afraid to google those though.

Many folks in the community are uncomfortable with the name and have asked the project to change it, to no avail.

'Git', at least, while not particularly rude, was deliberate.

What's rude is highly regional though, I'm sure "git" could be considered very rude in some places while not at all in some. Just like "cunt" isn't as rude in some places as in others.

_Is_ git very rude anywhere, tho? As far as I know, it's very mild in the UK and Ireland, not really used elsewhere, but I may be missing somewhere.

Don't forget "Unix".

And yes, the pun was 100% intentional there, too.

What? ... Oh, right.

https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1993-11-09

There's no way it isn't intentional. Many FOSS developers love dirty names.

Open source is increasingly a kink friendly space where people are encouraged to let their freak flag fly. See also, e.g., cargo-mommy: https://github.com/Gankra/cargo-mommy

> increasingly

I call bs -- that is weasel words. regarding the "truth" that statement, once someone said to me that tech content is like the surface of a balloon being blown up.. each area on the surface gets larger for sure, but also more distant to the others.

kink content is, was, and always will be a "bug light" attractor to certain people.. that is not at all the same as whatever this one-liner says

There is a difference between being kink friendly and exposing your kink to the public, including minors. There is a time and place for everything, and involving potentially unconsenting people in your kink by "letting your freak flag fly" is wrong and has nothing to do with being kink friendly.

It's heartwrenching to see kids these days downloading X-rated Rust crates at such a young age

Phaser has been consistent with their update title[1] for a decade now. Beats the mind numbingly sterile update of chrome and firefox I suppose.

1: https://phaser.io/download/archive

GNU parallel, since 2010: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/refs/

I'm not sure cargo-mommy strikes me as a strong example. It appears to be specific to the kink, not some mainstream tool that ties in kink somehow.

Given the goal of:

vore.website is free for anyone to use, and will never be turned into a vehicle for profit.

It's actually a brilliant name, what a way to keep away mainstream corporate interests

Reminds me of the artist “⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ” [1] (although you can just search “Wingdings” on Spotify and you’ll find them).

[1] https://00000ooooo.bandcamp.com/

Being provocative gets eyeballs. In this situation am I the chewer and the rss feed is the chewed? Which one of us is feeling aroused by it? The feeds? I hope it’s the feeds.

Ignore all of the Very Serious And ProfessionalTM yuppies. The project name is hilarious. This kind of thing is what makes the internet a fun place and not just a glorified project portfolio for the humorless.

Change your project’s name.

Why? It's a perfect name for something that consumes feeds.

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