I'm adding relevant blogs randomly as I come across them. I shuffle the order every few hours.
If I add so many blogs that the build time ratchets up too far for my liking, I may start the blog shuffle before the RSS fetching, and limit how many blogs are shown... I don't know.
I want it to be a discovery tool, not a "keep up with your RSS feeds" tool, that's what RSS readers are for :)
@murtuzaalisurti@sarajw this is awesome! I gathered together some feeds the other day for @trainingmontage and wish I'd had this then haha -- this has a great look!
@zachleat@jakelazaroff@fonts lol! Yes he's there twice but one is The Cascade newsletter and one is the personal blog. @matuzo is there twice too if you say HTMHell is also him :)
@mb21 that's what I was doing more before, but the loading bothered me, I do rather prefer the fast static site. We'll see! I could probably also just host this one elsewhere so I don't bust my free minutes on Netlify 😅
@sarajw I was thinking: statically generate an array of blog posts and put them in the script tag, with some JS that randomly shuffles the array and then generates the DOM list. You’d still have to regenerate the site every day or so to fetch new posts, but at least not every hour. But perhaps I’m misunderstanding what you’re doing 😅
@mb21 yeah there are probably other ways to do it. I suspect spinning up an Astro instance is the biggest time sink and I could be more vanilla about it! I'm generating 4 times a day currently :)
@malin I'm not sure what you're getting at still 😅 sorry I'm often a little dense.
I've just made this because I like scanning for interesting articles, like having a place to look, but heavily dislike having "unread articles" counts to make me feel like I'm falling behind.
As such it's just a discovery thing. I'm not trying to make an RSS reader.
@sarajw it's half logic-joke and half prying at the root cause. Discovery sounds good, but it would result in more unread articles. Therefore a comfortable solution should have a way to limit feed results, or auto-mark feeds as read at some point.
@malin well the visited link colour change does that for me pretty well already.
To me, there's a difference between scanning over a bunch of titles and going for the ones I like the look of, and having an unread counter ticking up.
@malin oh also, because I'm just showing the latest 3-5 post titles per blog - things just drop off the bottom. Poof, they're gone, unread or not. No problem 😄
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